Smart Home
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Brainstorm: Smart Plugs + Dumb Appliances = Genius solutions
The Basics A Smart Plug uses simple programming to determine when an outlet will or won’t give power to a device that is plugged into it. If your smart plug isn’t on, it’s like plugging your appliance into an outlet… Continue reading
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The 3 Layers of Home Automation
Let’s be clear about one thing here: no technology is perfect. Ever. If you hear someone rave about AI or their smart home on some other brilliant, cutting-edge electronic gadget without telling y0u what’s wrong with it…run. Chances are pretty… Continue reading
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Digital Decluttering: How to “clean out” your email inbox
One thing that you will often see in articles about productivity and decluttering is the idea of doing a “digital declutter”. While most of us (myself included) desperately need to clean up our computer hard drives, (for most people) the… Continue reading
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Brainstorming: How Alexa can have your back in the mornings
Good morning! If you just rolled your eyes at that — because your morning wasn’t as good as you would have liked it to be — then I suspect that you’re in the right place. What made your morning not… Continue reading
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How “smart” does my home really need to be?
We all should try to be “smart”.But do our appliances have to be? When I first started thinking about having a smart home, I thought that I would need (or really, want) to buy everything “smart”. I started searching Amazon… Continue reading
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