The Connected Home Blog

Happy new year to everyone. Sorry that there has been a shortage of posts recently but as is often the way with us amateur part-time bloggers the real world and day jobs sometimes get in the way.

With the craziness of Christmas now over with and 2008 well underway I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all our TCHB (The Connected Home Blog) readers for continuing to visit and support us and to encourage you to subscribe to the RSS feed  if you haven’t already. Look there is even a nice easy link here!

Here are just a few of the things that you can expect from us over the coming weeks and months:

• Fix the Firefox & Safari bug - a lot of effort went in to the design of this blog and the template took weeks of tweaking before i was happy with it, mostly because of having no experience of anything similar in the past. That said I am delighted with the result and feel it was well worth the effort , or at least it was if you use Internet Explorer. It looks like my lack of experience and technical ability may have showed after all as neither Firefox nor Safari display the page as I intended, and IE does. This could be quite time consuming, but a worthwhile exercise and one that I really should have done some time ago. If anyone is feeling particularly generous and can point out where I have gone wrong I could probably do with the help!
• Provide product reviews and information - there is a lot of very good software and hardware out there which really helps with the ideal of a connected digital home. In 2008 I want to share my thoughts on some of these and provide more information as to the role they can play in the home. We have talked a lot about Windows Home Server and Windows Live Services in passing, but done little to actually review them or suggest how they can be used. Other products we are keen to look at include Sonos, the various media extenders that are now appearing on the market, NAS devices, backup systems, home network solutions including info about the Draft N WiFi standard, power line network adaptors, network ready TVs, IPTV services and a whole host more.
• More info about the ideal - what does the connected home really look like and what would we like to see to improve it further
• More regular posts - the real world or work and family life permitting.
• More web pages/sections - with all of the extra content will come better organisation. I hope to have some dedicated pages/sections for reviews, for tutorials or how-to guides, and I also hope to be able to provide some additional services which I hope to talk more about in the future should there be an appetite from TCHB readers.

So that is a taste of what is to come. If there is anything that you would like to see please let me know by leaving a comment.

Thanks again for reading and for your continued support.

Matt S

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