Smart Home GDPR and home CCTV CCTV is an effective way to deter crime, but it also needs to comply with the law. GDPR doesn't just apply to business, it applies to home CCTV as well.
Electric Vehicles ICEd by a plugin hybrid Electric vehicle public charging points are increasingly being ICEd by plugin hybrids and something needs to be done to stop it.
Internet New Irish domain ☘️ I'm embracing my new found Irish citizenship so this blog has found itself a new home on a newly liberalised Irish domain.
Review Tado & Apple HomeKit It's been 9 months since Tado finally shipped their HomeKit enabled internet bridge to users, now I've had a chance to really use it, how do I rate it?
Family We're having a baby! We are incredibly excited to announce that we are expecting our first child on September 5th 2018 😀
Guides How to become an Irish citizen Find out how you can become an Irish citizen through descent, marriage, or naturalisation. Or how you may already be Irish and simply not realise it.
Politics I am officially Irish 🇮🇪 Read about why and how in the wake of Brexit I decided to become an Irish citizen.
Review Ring vs Ring Pro Ring make a range of smart video doorbells and related products, but when it comes to Ring vs Ring Pro which should you choose?
Counselling Becoming a counsellor It has been 9 years since I left education and began work in the technology and internet industry, but as of today I embarking on a little side adventure to become a counsellor.
Guides How to make a relay in Vera appear as a fan in HomeKit If you integrate a Vera system with HomeKit using the excellent Homebridge-Vera integration then you may well want to ensure that things like your relays appear correctly in HomeKit
Travel Can VW camper vans join the Caravan Club? Find out whether you can join the Caravan and Motorhome Club (Caravan Club) with your VW camper van
Guides Configuring a /31 subnet on Mikrotik Routerboard A /31 subnet is a tiny subnet consisting of just 2 IP addresses and no broadcast or network address. Defined by RFC3021 a 31-bit prefix is designed specifically for point-to-point links, which is
Smart Home Revolutionise your heating with Tado and never be too cold or too hot ever again Central heating is not something we interact with on a regular basis. Most people will spend hours attempting to programme their heating when they first move into their home and then pray they
Shopping How to complain to Amazon UK As a rule Amazon seem to want to make it as hard as possible to raise a formal complaint, it takes a lot of persuasion to reach the point where someone will hand out the information necessary to escalate above customer service.
Review USB wall socket review, good or bad? The average home has a plethora of battery powered portable gadgets; everything from phones, to tablets, to smart watches. The average person could be charging 3 or 4 devices each night, multiply that
Review Ring doorbell review The Ring video doorbell is a WiFi connected doorbell that connects to your smart phone and allows you to answer your door no matter where you are, and what's more with the Ring
Guides Why and how to block Periscope and Live.ly Live streaming sites such as Periscope and Live.ly (of Musical.ly fame) are big news, and becoming increasingly popular. Periscope has only been around in the mainstream a little over a year
Guides Loading a website from RAM Nowadays the loading time of your website is key, reducing loading times by as little as 1 second can increase your conversion rate on an e-commerce site by as much as 7% (https:
Guides Setting up a .onion website with nginx and CentOS 7 If you’re running a website on your own server (like I do) then it is often fun to experiment and tweak with the configuration. My latest tweak was to enable this website
Smart Home The future of smart homes belongs to AI Home automation is the future, a home that cannot anticipate your needs, that doesn’t know what it’s occupants need at any point in time and act automatically to meet those needs,
Guides Filtering IPv6 Ensuring a safe environment online for children is very important, the internet is absolutely full of people and websites that are either specifically intent on causing harm, or are at very least something
Review The problem with Apple Pay Apple Pay has the potential to finally bring mobile device payments to the masses, and compared to previous attempts to implement mobile payments it is massively successful. The success is attributed in the
Guides Throttling website traffic on a Routerboard There are occasions when one might wish to throttle, or otherwise monitor, traffic going to a specific website using a Routerboard. Perhaps you want to dissuade someone from accessing a website like the
Guides MTU, baby jumbo frames, and FTTC I recently found myself tinkering with my router settings in an effort to make my broadband work. There was, in hindsight, a good chance that the problem was my ISP and nothing that
Guides Web filtering on Mikrotik / Routerboard If you are using a Routerboard and have children then there is a good chance that you would like to implement some sort of filtering on your internet connection to protect them from