Bluetooth may be best known as a wireless technology for connecting mobile phones and PDAs to a PC, but it could become even more useful as a way of controlling home electronics and appliances from ...

Working towards automating a few things in a home often seems simple on the surface, but it’s easy for these projects to snowball into dozens of sensors and various servos, switches, and cameras ...

I'm currently thinking about hosting my own web page from a spare computer at home. I would be switching from a service that costs about $6.00 per month. One of biggest considerations currently is ...

E-cigarettes contain microchips that can do more than just control a vaporiser. One hobbyist built a mini web server out of one of them.

Apache's HTTP web server is one of the most widely used web servers available today. The software is free and open-source, and it comes with a rich set of features. The Apache HTTP web server is also ...

Upload and download files on your home PC from anywhere by turning it into a personal FTP server. With a home FTP server, you can upload and download files on your home hard drive from the office, ...

Running a home web server and need to lock it up? Want to set up standard hosting for multiple sub-domains? Don't worry about tinkering with Apache server's arcane .htaccess file, just tell the ...

Portal 2 is mostly known as the successful sequel to Valve’s weird physics platformer, Portal. It’s not really known for being a webserver. That might change, though, given the hard work of ...

I noticed my home web server always has slow access time when I first access it. I'm thinking it has to do with the power save options, it probably shuts off the hard drives after some time. Is there ...