In the past five years, that change has accelerated even faster. Embedded technology is transforming the home security system from a simple way to identify and prevent intruders into a whole-home management system. Right there at the center of all of this is the smartphone.

You can use a smartphone to manage any number of home security functions. Some apps are web-based, while some are designed for specific operating systems like iOS, Android, or Blackberry. Usually, you’re going to have to pay a monthly fee to your home security system in order to get mobile access, but in many cases it proves to be more than worth it.

Let’s take a look at some of the major functions today’s home alarm systems can do with smartphone apps:

Activate or deactivate your alarm system. There are a number of scenarios in which this could be especially useful. For example, if you forget to arm your alarm in the morning after you leave for work, you can simply log in from your smartphone once you get to the office and turn it on.

Control locks. Some apps will even let you interface with your door locks. Obviously these require special equipment, but the concept is tremendously useful. Forget your keys? No problem. Pull out your smartphone and unlock the door. Have a cousin visiting from out of town and she arrives while you’re at work? Unlock the door remotely so she can get in long before you’re done at work.

View active alarms. One of the most obvious functions of a smartphone app for your home security system is to tell you if any alarms have been tripped. Many of the functions of your security app require a data connection, but this one will usually run via SMS.

View home security cameras. Not all security camera systems have this capability. In some cases, you might decide to install standalone IP cameras that then communicate with a server on your computer. There are many apps for this kind of scenario, including Active WebCam, Zone Minder, and Ugolog. Best of all, these apps aren’t proprietary; they work with just about any IP-based camera.

In some ways, that’s the sticking point for certain apps. The app you use for your home alarm system is proprietary. It’s designed to work with a specific system. Most of the major vendors have their own app, with several vendors using a re-branded Alarm.com app as resellers for their security systems.

Jeremy Kushner is a home alarm systems enthusiast who blogs on topics related to crime and security. You can find more of his posts at HomeAlarmSystems.com.

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Avast Antivirus License Key: W6754380R9978A0910-4TZ59467

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The most common solution to similar problem is one of the thousands of available proxies available on the web, but this solution could also get block when IT department of your company is being noticed, you know ITians are clever enough

Lets move to something more reliable, how about creating a mirror of your desired webpage? A service called TextMirror is there for you, actually it won’t work for dynamic websites likes Orkut, Facebook, in spite  you can mirror down your favorite blog and other static websites with a bulk amount of text.

How To Create A TextMirror ?

In-order to create a text based mirror for any webpage visit TextMirror, all you have to is copy the original URL of the page you want to visit, Check box agreeing with the terms and condition of the service and click Create.

Finally you will get a text based appearance of your desired page with a date stamped which was originally saved in TextMirror database, you can even copy down the URL to visit later.

You can change the size and appearance of your text from the Settings on the right cornet of the screen. These are the only customizable options for the text available on the page. You can also find different mirror at the bottom of the page which are related to your mirror because all these mirrors are archived from TextMirror database and is being shared with other users too.

So guys how you liked this solution, TextMirror is smart enough to load any article on the web regardless of dynamic webpage, regardless you won’t ever be caught due to the lack of HTML appearance and unsuspicious-appearing URL, until your IT administrator get to know about TextMirror and block its own URL from the server, until then enjoy

The solution lies with a reliable and protective antivirus but most of them needs to be purchased so that you can enjoy complete benefits of the program, or if you have got some trial antivirus program it might temporary delete some malicious program but after some times you will be notified to purchase a license.

AVG AntiVirus Free 2012

Well have a look to something that is absolutely free and reliable, this is AVG’s latest product line called AVG AntiVirus FREE 2012, AVG Internet Security & AVG Anti-Virus 2012, and among all them AVG AntiVirus FREE 2012 is the most popular (maybe due to its free edition label), powerful protection system for your PC.

AVG Free 2012 is a complete bundle protection suite for your PC which fights back with upcoming threats, trojans, viruses and still is the most lightweight program which means it does not eats up your system resources while its in operation.

AVG 2012 likewise endlessly searches performance betterments based with your machine. If you have a low end PC then you might try AVG Advisor which will help you identifying problem and will fix it. The newer version seems to be me more efficient, lighter and smarter consuming less amount of your resources which in the end results in excellent performance.

Download AVG AntiVirus Free 2012

If you want to download an online AVG AntiVirus Free 2012 installer then you might visit here, links for offline installers are provided below, get a copy for yourself according to your hardware architecture.

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How To Configure Wireless Network Watcher?

Wireless Network Watcher – As the name describes, it is a small light weight portable (does not require installation) utility program which helps you keep track on devices, smartphones, laptops and computers that are remotely connected to your network.

Lets start configuring this program, below are the steps you need to follow:

Step 1: Download Wireless Network Watcher. Extract the contents from a zip folder.

Step 2 : Open the extracted the folder and execute “WNetWatcher” to launch the utility.

Step 3:  At first glance, you will be displayed with a list of devices that are connected to your wireless network. Information is being displayed column wise format with details as IP address, device name, Mac address, device information and Network Adapter Brand 

If utility program does not identify the actual network adapter – you have to make a manual changes to it. Press F9 or navigate to Options –> Advanced Options and select your default network adapter.   

Wireless Network Watcher is really a great tool to work on your wireless network, in order to secure your network you can password protect your wireless medium by entering in its control panel and apply your desired password. We thanks ToThePC for bringing such an informative post.

Note: The utility program runs perfect for Windows based computers including Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Find My iPhone App

If you have a MobileMe subscription or a MobileMe Free Account, you can use the Find My iPhone app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch in your possession to location one of your devices. Some of the features you can avail with Find My iPhone as:

1. Display your device’s approximate location on a map.
2. Send your device a message or make it play a sound.
3. Lock your device remotely (using Remote Lock) .
4. Erase your device remotely (using Remote Wipe).

Note: To use Find My iPhone, you  need to set up the device before it’s lost.

The Find My iPhone app requires iOS 3.1.3 or later version (well iOS 4.3 is recommended). Devices you’re trying to find need to have iOS 3.1.3 or later (on devices of MobileMe subscribers), or iOS 4.2 or later (on devices of a free account users).

You can also use the Find My iPhone web application from any computer. On a computer, open your browser and navigate it to me.com/find

Set up Find My iPhone

Before you can use Find My iPhone to locate a device, you need to turn Find My iPhone on the devices.

Step 1: On your device’s Home screen, tap Settings.

Step 2: Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

Step 3: Make sure Fetch New Data is set to Push. If Fetch New Data is set to Off, tap it, then turn on Push. Then tap the Mail, Contacts, Calendars button in the upper left to return to the Accounts list.

Step 4: In the Accounts list, tap your MobileMe account.

Step 5: At the bottom of the screen, tap to turn on Find My iPhone (or iPad/iPod Touch) and when asked to confirm you want this option, tap Allow.

Locate Your Device

You can use the Find My iPhone app on a friend’s device to locate your lost iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. You can find your device’s current location as long as:

1. Find My iPhone is turned on.
2. Location Services is turned on (Settings > General).
3. The device is online (turned on and connected to a data network, such as EDGE, 3G or Wi-Fi). If you’re looking for an iPad with Wi-Fi or iPod Touch, it can only be found if it’s on connected to a Wi-Fi network and not in sleep mode.

Find You Lost iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch

Step 1: Tap Find iPhone, and sign in using your Apple ID email address and password.

Step 2: Tap the device you want to locate.

The dot to the left of the device name indicates it’s current status as:

• A green dot means the device is online.
• A red dot means the device is offline or turned off or not connected to a network.
• A gray dot means the app is trying to connect to the device.

If your device is online, its approximate location is shown on the Find My iPhone map (may take a few minutes depending upon your network connection). The blue circle around the device indicates the accuracy of the location.

If in case the app does ‘not able to locate your current location, its last known location will be displayed within 24 hours after that it will be cleared from the map.

You can download the app from the link provided below or you can also navigate from itunes app store as the application is Free of cost, however if you are feeling and problems settings up your app feel free to ask.

Download Find My iPhone [iTunes]

Although we have been armed with some best and tough security features which lies under our account the only thing you need is to activate them and use wisely and efficiently. I will try to explain you a couple of security measures that will allow you as authorized access login, and do not forget to change you browsing settings to HTTPS, below is the process to enable https on your account

Method 1. Enabling HTTPS Secure Browsing

Login to your facebook account and click Accounts then Account Settings, under Account Security you will find https secure browsing check mark it and save the settings.

Method 2. Login Notifications

Another best security feature is called Login Notifications which lies under the same as https secure browsing. The login notification features strictly use some authentication from the user in order to login to the profile. The feature uses a smart code that is being sent over your cellphone or email address that you have integrated with your profile to login to your facebook profile, you can even authorize the computer for safe logins.

Before enabling the smart code service make sure you have integrated your mobile number and a valid email address to receive these codes, else it won’t work out and is be no longer worthful to you.

Method 3: PC Authorization

Authorizing a PC also allows you to keep track on the login’s to your profile from different sources, actually it takes town the time, date and PC name from which your ID has been logged in.

These were a couple of different security measures that you could implement on your profile from being hacked. If you have any suggestion or queries feel free to ask.

The malware called ‘MacGuard’ gets installed on you Mac whenever you visit an potentially infected webpage. It seems the updated malware is much more dangerous as compared to its previous one, where it does ‘not require an administrator password to get itself installed.

The user will experience installer screen whenever the malware is being installed on your Mac, but it won’t prompt you to enter administrator password for the installation, this means that anyone can install the malware without knowing the destruction it would exactly make to your Mac.

Its time for Apple to bring some more powerful update to OS X in-order to protect its Mac users from this powerful threatened malware.

via Geeky-Gadgets