Smart Home Removing stuck favourites in Apple Home app Sometimes device favourites in the Home app become stuck. Don't worry though, if you have a device that simply will not vanish from the favourites then it's easy to fix.
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Guides How to block YOLO Learn how to keep your children safe from online bullying by blocking the anonymous messaging application YOLO
Guides What to pack in Dad's hospital bag Your pregnant wife or partners hospital bag is packed and waiting by the door, but have you remembered to pack your own hospital bag? This is a definitive list on what to pack.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
