So-Called 'Light Bulb Ban' In Effect: What Types of Bulbs Are Ok to Use? [Update: December 30, 2013] The new year rang in big changes in the way you light your home. As of Jan. 1, 2014, federal legislation has restricted the manufacture or import of conventional 40- and 60-watt incandescent light bulbs in the United States. While some are calling it a “light bulb ban,” the law itself doesn’t ban the use or sale of incandescents; it requires manufacturers to create more energy-efficient versions of the traditional pear-shaped bulbs, which does keep the door open to the future sales of incandescents.
Have you been using incandescent bulbs in your home? If you haven’t made the switch to energy-saving light bulbs yet, don’t worry. Does switching to energy-efficient bulbs make a difference? Absolutely! What are my lighting choices? CFLs, LEDs and halogens (also called “energy-efficient incandescents”) are the three major categories of energy-efficient light bulbs, and they are commonly found in home improvement stores. What should I know about halogen lights? Blog. Introducing the iOS Location Channel. Create Recipes that work with the location of your iPhone! Automate lights, social announcements, your home appliances, and notifications to family as you move about the day.
New Location Triggers Use Location Triggers with some of your favorite Channels! Belkin WeMo Light Switch Review & Rating. If you're itching to dip your toe into the home automation waters, but aren't quite ready to jump in with both feet, Belkin's WeMo line is a good place to start. The WeMo Light Switch connects to your Wi-Fi network and can be controlled using a smartphone or tablet and an accompanying app. Installation is quick and relatively easy if you've ever changed a light switch, and setting everything up is a breeze.
At $49.99 (direct), this is a fairly expensive light switch, but it works as advertised, and is fun to use. What's missing? DesignThe WeMo looks like a typical paddle light switch, save for a backlit 'On' indicator at the bottom of the rocker paddle. At the back of the module are two black switch wires, a white neutral wire, and a green ground wire. I started the installation by shutting off the circuit breaker for the light that the WeMo would be controlling and removing the existing switch's faceplate. The WeMo's controls are simple and straightforward. 10 Apps & Tools for Maximizing Personal Efficiency - Frank Addante's Founder Blog. October 24th, 2012 | by fbadmin 1. Sanebox (Email Organization): Service that uses algorithms to organize your email into what’s important and what’s not. I was skeptical and had a lot of issues with giving up control of my inbox, but I’m hooked now. It works amazing well. Tips: Trust it. Check @SaneLater twice a day, @SaneBulk whenever you feel like reading newsletters, promotions, etc. and use @SaneBlackHole for all of your junk that you never want to see again. 2.
Service to store your notes in the cloud and access on any computer or mobile device. Tips: Use for both business and personal. Download App: iPhone | Android. iWork '13: Dumbed down or smart move? From bloggers to everyday users, almost everybody seems to have reacted to the release of the latest version of iWork with overwhelming negativity, and a general feeling that Apple is “dumbing down” its apps to appeal to a broader audience. Judging from the amount of feedback that the new apps have received, the changes seem to affect just about everybody in some way; it’s probably fair to say, however, that power users will suffer the most from the disappearance of many of iWork’s more advanced features—a situation that, of late, seems to repeat itself every time Apple comes out with a significant update to one of its apps.
Strange days Most analysts seem to ascribe the changes that have befallen iWork to Apple wanting to bring feature parity to the various versions of its office suite. Undoubtedly, there is some truth to this, but I don’t think that it tells the whole story. Follow the white rabbit I say this not necessarily to justify what Apple has done, but rather to figure out why.
Sexographies. Apple. Mosaic. Ed Tech. Google. CrunchGear. Leaked Details On 2010-2011 iPods, iPhone 5, Bumper 2 + iPad mini. Latest Apple Rumor Speaks Of Smaller iPads & iPods, And Early 2011 iPhone 5 Release Date. Just like iLounge says, take this info with a grain of salt, but apparently one of their trusted sources leaked a bunch of news concerning upcoming info. Best of all, most sounds totally plausible when given a fair amount of justification. Smaller iPod? Sure why not. Perhaps that what that small LCD screen that appeared a few weeks back was for. Smaller iPad? Hells yeah. Early 2011 iPhone 5 release? Certainly plausible. New bumpers? Apple is only giving away the current crop of bumpers through September, which lead many to believe there will be a slightly new model launched afterwards.
The App Store Now Has Over 3,000 iPad Apps, Only 20 Percent Are Free. With iPad app frenzy in full force, the App Store is growing by the minute as iPad apps are being approved. Early this morning, Mobile ad exchange Mobclix tallied the number of apps and the breakdown between paid and free apps in the store. According to Mobclix, there are a total of 3,122 iPad apps in the store (keep in mind, these numbers could have changed slightly in the past few hours). As of Thursday evening, there were 2300 iPad apps available for download. Currently, 80 percent of iPad apps in the store are paid apps, coming in at 2523 apps total. While iPad apps may not be easy on your wallet, Apple’s iPhone app store’s breakdown of free vs. paid apps are similar.
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