Pc Home Security
DIY Home Security PC - TechFuels Forum
If you are worried about somebody breaking into home, or just want to check room in which PC is placed, you can rapidly and cheaply set up a home security PC. This can be completed on either a Mac or Windows machine, and with few hours work, you can have a motion-triggered PC that will capture images of intruders and email them to you, or upload them by FTP to an exterior web server. 1. To establish home security PC, you want a Mac or Windows machine, with webcam. This webcam will be set up with software that will check the room for any movements, take pictures or video when it detects motion and send them to you distantly. If you are on a Mac, you can try out EvoCam software suite with a 15-day free trial. You want to buy a webcam if Mac does not have one integral, with install webcam drivers. If you are on Windows PC, you want to buy webcam if you do not have one integral, install its drivers and utilize software called TinCam which, like EvoCam for Mac, has free trial period. When establishing safety software, you have choice to have it utilize motion detection to trigger actions, which is what you want to do. You want to organize motion detection to either email images or video or to upload images and video to a web server through the FTP protocol. Which technique you utilize is should be decided by you, but email option can overload mailbox if there are many images or video is long, because of big file sizes. Remember that variable motion detection adjustment settings are obtainable for both Mac and Windows editions of security software. When establishing motion detection sensitivity, select choice that will not be triggered by natural lighting modifications, or any movements caused by things like fans or air conditioners. You can check motion detection sensitivity by setting it, beginning monitoring application, and then crossing path which it is checking to see if it works properly.
iYogi gets $15 million to expand PC help
IYogi today announced that it has secured $15 million in venture capital funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an auspicious development for the start-up -- and potentially for Windows PC users who are increasingly frustrated by growing tech complexity.
iYogi is the fast-growing online consumer PC support service that's sort of like The Geek Squad, except you don't have to stand in line at a Best Buy superstore to get service.
For a $139 annual subscription you get what iYogi co-founder and CEO Uday Challu calls "all-you-can-eat, call-me-anytime" tech guidance. Challu says the $15 million will be used to expand from the company's current 1,700 employees to 3,000 in the next 12 months. Last year at this time, iYogi had 415 employees. Most of iYogi's workforce is based in big cities in India.
iYogi's techies assist subscribers who call in via a toll-free number. Challu says they are trained to guide you through solving most any problem having to do with setting up and fine-tuning your Windows PC's setup, performance and home network. They can also guide you through fixing glitches and using the more obscure features of Microsoft Office, any of the top Web browsers and any of the major security suites.
Security Levels for Home Wireless Network with Your HP PC
A brief discussion of Home Wireless Network Security Levels: WEP, WPA, WPA2. Know Your PC Episode 20.
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