Gordon Meyer

Chicago, Illinois

Home automation, speaker, writer

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Gordon Meyer is a Chicago-based writer and speaker who has authored dozens of software manuals, numerous articles for Macintosh users and technical writers, and Smart Home Hacks, a leading book on do-it-yourself home automation techniques.

Smart Home Hacks
by Gordon Meyer
October 2004
Print: $29.99
Ebook: $23.99

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EyeTV, the paperless office, and more, June 29 2008
High-end Mac-based Home Automation, June 17 2008
Make your Screen Saver Informative, June 07 2008
One week with Periscope, June 07 2008
Reach out with ASProxy, May 30 2008
Indigo 3 Simplifies Home Automation, May 11 2008
Thinking Home is Back, May 11 2008
Upgrade Your Brain, May 11 2008
Home Office Envy, April 29 2008
Timely Travel Info in Your Pocket, April 28 2008
Cidney - Distributed Caller ID for Macintosh, April 15 2008
A peek inside an automated home, April 10 2008
Relief for Mac-based Ceiva Customers, April 04 2008
Meet Hazel, March 31 2008
Proxify your home, March 23 2008
Standalone Home Automation, March 14 2008
Mac technology for "Aging in Place", March 08 2008
Remotely controlling your home from within, March 02 2008
Touch your home from the web, February 21 2008
One week with EyeTV, February 17 2008
Sonar for your Home, February 10 2008
Quiet your Home with Ambient Noise, February 02 2008
My Paperless Office revisited, January 22 2008
The Insomniac Mac, January 18 2008
Going mobile with PasswordWallet, January 14 2008
MW Expo news for Smart Homes, January 14 2008
PhoneValet & iPhone: Instant Landline Voice Mail, January 07 2008
Holiday goodies for your Mac, December 19 2007
Shion - Simple INSTEON for Mac homes, December 18 2007
Tips for better Radioshift-ing, November 10 2007
My paperless office, November 04 2007
Radioshift networking tips, September 26 2007
Your Home Knows You're Home, March 23 2007
Twittering Your Home, March 16 2007
Expo news for home automators, January 08 2007
A Mac home theatre case-study, December 04 2006
Your washing machine talks back, November 05 2006
"Presence" for your Mac, today, October 11 2006
Rescuing my LaserWriter, October 10 2006
Indigo gets webified, September 07 2006
Standalone home monitoring devices, July 08 2006
Coffee Pot Automation circa 1985, July 06 2006

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Your Mac Knows When You're Home
Publish Date: May. 30, 2008In the movies, smart homes automatically greet you when you return after a hard day's work. But in reality, this hasn't been very easy to do. In this article, Gordon Meyer shows you how you can program your Mac to know you're there. Once you get started, you'll find all sorts of useful ways your Mac can welcome you home. Macintosh Home Monitoring
Publish Date: Apr. 4, 2006Want to learn a few simple home automation techniques to have your Mac send you a message when your mail is delivered, your kids come home, or your dog uses the pet door to go into the backyard? Gordon Meyer shows you how. Hacks for Smart Homes
Publish Date: Nov. 11, 2004Implementing home automation may be easier and less expensive than you ever imagined. By using your computer, your home can become much smarter. Gordon Meyer, author of Smart Home Hacks, covers the basics of automating your home with MisterHouse, an open source, home automation application for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Move a step beyond automatic lights to a home that actually responds to stimuli.

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