January 2012
4 posts
Hospitality Drum n Bass 2012
Hmmmmm, hate to say it but Hospital are sounding a bit commercial these days… I’m an AVID follower of DnB and Hospital records have been one of my favourite labels for a good while. I own ALL their releases from the last 5 or 6 years and most before that. In my opinion Hospital’s latest album ‘Hospitality 2012’ is weak. It does have a number of great tracks (You...
Jan 30th
Jan 27th
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My Flickr Stream, Everywhere, on Everything
I recently purchased an iPod nano to add to my vast array of Apple goodies. In fact I purchased it on the day Steve Jobs died as a memento. When I bought it, I wanted to wear it as a watch. The new firmware has 18 watch faces, and you can get some pretty nice straps for it. Anyway, “wouldn’t it be cool”, I thought to myself, if every time I synced the nano with my Mac, the...
Jan 14th
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Jan 3rd
December 2011
2 posts
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HomeAutom8 Cloud Scheduling
It’s pretty much always been the case that if you want to schedule your home automation, you need to be running an always on PC or server in you house.  This costs money and is a pain.  Not anymore!  HomeAutom8 now allows you to configure your schedule on the site and will execute it for you from the cloud!
Dec 15th
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Dec 13th
November 2011
4 posts
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Install HomeAutom8 on your Always On PC
I often get asked how to install HomeAutom8 on a PC and use it for scheduling commands.  Although HomeAutom8 does not require the use of an always on pc, as you can use the iPhone client iAutom8, for more advanced usage, such as scheduling events or iteration with other pc based software, it can be useful. I’m writing this tutorial assuming your always on PC is running a flavour of unix,...
Nov 24th
Google Music Review
Although I’m based in the UK I have managed to signup to Google’s Music service and try out some of its features. I have been EAGERLY awaiting a place in the cloud large enough to hold my circa 100gb collection for some time, so was very excited to get the chance to try it out. Google music gives you the ability to upload 20,000 of your songs, and play them from the cloud on any of...
Nov 22nd
Available in the US Only
Anyone else absolutely sick of cool tech coming out ‘US Only’ all the time!?
Nov 14th
Movember
Please please please sponsor my Mo in aid of Prostate Cancer http://mobro.co/Tris
Nov 3rd
October 2011
3 posts
4s battery
I caught my iPhone 4S speaker hissing to itself the other day. I bet this is related to the battery issues.
Oct 29th
Oct 25th
Free Cloud Storage
Box.net are giving away 50GB cloud storage to ios users! Go get it!
Oct 14th
September 2011
2 posts
Beta testers wanted
If you are an existing iAutom8 owner and would be interested in getting your hands on the latest version before anyone else, tweet “#iAutom8 tester! @HomeAutom8”
Sep 27th
A major new update for iAutom8 is coming soon. The update will include: - New App ‘Skins’ or modes (spinner, tabular and switches) - A reworked iPad interface supporting all modes mentioned above - A complete overhaul of the code base - Scheduled commands and macros! This will be a free upgrade in the App Store. Watch this space for more news soon…
Sep 22nd
August 2011
2 posts
4 tags
Aug 21st
Aug 2nd
July 2011
1 post
ZTE MF112 LCP Config Request Timeouts
Pulling your hair out getting LCP Config Request Timeouts with pppd or wvdial using your ZTE MF112?   Use /dev/ttyUSB2 instead of /dev/ttyUSB1
Jul 19th
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June 2011
1 post
1 tag
HomeAutom8 gets PcWorld mention!
Thanks to Sam Cox for mentioning iAutom8 in this PCWorld article! View the Article
Jun 29th
May 2011
1 post
May 16th
April 2011
7 posts
Mono problems
If you are having this error “CRITICAL **: _wapi_shm_attach: shared file” [/some/path] open error” Try this: > export MONO_SHARED_DIR=/tmp
Apr 29th
“If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room”
Apr 13th
Don't let them filter the internet in the UK →
Apr 13th
App Store Review
iAutom8 has been awarded a 5 star review on the App Store!  Thanks everyone!
Apr 7th
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“driving home from a weekend away, and about 60 miles from the house, my wife...”
– Angus Murray referring to the HomeAutom8.com system www.homeautom8.com
Apr 6th
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Apr 6th
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Mounting smbfs shares on the command line in Mac...
Don’t forget to escape the ; if you are using a domain part: mount_smbfs //YOURDOMAIN\;user@server-name/share /Volumes/mountfolder/
Apr 6th