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Home Automation! What You Need to Know to Not Be Dumb. Mini Keyboard with Built-in Mouse and Touch Scroll. This small Bluetooth keyboard, weighing only 205 grams and measuring 200 x 105 x 22 millimeters, features an 82-key setup and a built-in mouse track with left and right buttons plus a clever touch sensitive scroll function.

Mini Keyboard with Built-in Mouse and Touch Scroll

The portable and slim design can be used for travel, school, or any other working environment with a Bluetooth enabled laptop, PC, Playstation 3 and iPad / iPad 3G / iPhone 4, iPhone 3Gs and iPhone 3G with iOS4.Features:Bluetooth Wireless Technology range up to 10MReliable wireless connection to your bluetooth HID Mobile deviceSupport Sleep and Wake-up FunctionOn/Off switch maximizes battery lift2 AAA Batteries up to 150hrs continuous operationBuild-in Left and Right Click mouseBuild-in Mouse Track and Touch Scrolling FunctionDimension: 200 x 105 x 22mm (approx.)Weight: 205g The Mini Bluetooth Keyboard with Mouse Track is yours for $55 from the Gadget Brando website, where they now are offering free shipping until November 30. View topic - Testing VPN from Home. When I set up my first HDA I wanted to find out what it could and couldn't do for me without encroaching on my exsisting network so I created the HDA with a different subnet (192.168.1.0/24) instead of the the one I normally use - the intention being to change to the new addresses or build a better HDA with the exsisiting IPs (192.168.10.0/24)- Then I built a little network on the bench using the HDA broadcast domain with a netgear cable router as a switch, with the DHCP server off.

View topic - Testing VPN from Home

Once I had this network running I could evaluate how things worked. It didn't take long before I patched the WAN side of the HDA router into the exsisting network. I gave this port a fixed IP, 192.168.10.2 and set up my exsisting router to forward VPN traffic on port 1194 to the HDA domain router and inturn made the HDA domain router forward the port to the HDA. View topic - Access different web-apps using 6 urls and same IP. Some of you may know this Quote: HostingAWebsite You want to run a web server in your Amahi server and make it visible from the web outside your home.

View topic - Access different web-apps using 6 urls and same IP

FIRST: making anything visible outside your network can open security issues, so you are doing this at your own risk. Some apps are more secure than others, but there is nothing ultimately secure. With that out of the way, to host your own web site you need the following: Forward a port to your HDA ip address, either for plain insecure http: 80, for https, 443 (advanced users can use other ports). What you need to do (as root) is edit the config file for the app: cd /etc/httpd/conf.d nano 10*-yourweabppname.conf Then add: ServerAlias username.yourhda.com You can add more server aliases if you want to access the app under those names.

View topic - Dynamic DNS issues. ZwaveStart. Transform Ubuntu into a Media Center with XBMC. This guest article was written by Vivek Kumar from TNerd.com, a blog focused on technology news, tricks and tips and Linux tutorials.

Transform Ubuntu into a Media Center with XBMC

Linux has come a long way in support for multimedia and graphics. Today we will see how to transform Ubuntu 8.10 into a media center platform. You can achieve this using various software like MythTV and Boxee, but we’re going to use XBMC Media Center (formerly XBox Media Center). Before going into the process of installing and configuring XBMC let’s take a look at what it offers. Home Page: Description: XBMC is an award winning media center application for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and XBox. Features of XBMC A complete list of features can be found here. Installation Open System->Administration->Software Sources and select the Third Party Software tab.

Close Software Sources and when prompted, choose to reload the repositories. Optionally you can also install: Starting and Running XBMC All that is left now is to start XBMC. Here are two tips to get you started: Do-It-Yourself Home Automation. Home Automation - The most complete guide to home automation information on the web.