Microsoft Office Mobile for iOS and Android

Last week Microsoft announced the release of Microsoft office for iPad, iPhone and Android and has made it free for home use.  Microsoft is probably making this leap since Quick Office is a great alternative that is installed on Android’s KitKat and Apple provides iWork for free on all of it’s new devices.  iPad users however will be considered “premium” users and will have to pay for edit capabilities.  This seems like a step in the right direction for Microsoft but is it enough and Continue reading →

The Next Generation Smoke/CO Alarm

The Nest Protect is a new device put out by Nest that sounds like it should be in every home.  Many people know of Nest because of their Learning Thermostat with automatic programming capabilities, or have heard of Google’s acquisition of Nest for $3 billion, but not everyone knows of Nest Protect which looks to be a promising device to protect your home and your family. Nest Protect is simply a “smart” network connected smoke alarm and CO detector which eliminates some of the common Continue reading →

Enterprise Class WiFi With Clean Design

When most people decide they want or need wireless in their home, they will run out to Best Buy or some other big box store and buy a cheap consumer grade wireless router made by Cisco, D-Link, or Netgear and plug it in at home only to find lack of coverage in the home and need to replace the unit in a year or two.  Wireless has become a core function in homes today and more and more home devices require a WiFi connection every Continue reading →

OwnCloud – Your data, your way. No Limits.

File syncing applications like Dropbox, Box and SkyDrive provide invaluable file syncing across all your devices free but with limits.  If you are anything like me, you have data spread across all these services withing their “Free” boundaries which gets to be cumbersome with organizing data across so many services due to the size limitations.    Now you can host your own service and break through those limits and at a relatively low cost. OwnCloud is a free application with the same functionality of other major Continue reading →