Home security on your iPhone

January 24th, 2010 amemoNony

Filed under: Software , Cool tools , Internet Tools , iPhone We all know how the iPhone can secure itself, but you can get it to secure your entire house as well. A while back, I briefly toyed with the idea of going without a landline. It’s an alluring prospect, and strikes me as satisfyingly post-modern. But one thing held me back: my home security system, which relied on a landline to connect it to central monitoring. So even though I went through a brief affair with Vonage until Verizon FiOS Triple Play pulled me back in, I had to keep a limited line connected to the house for our security system. I tried to get rid of it. Oh, how I tried. …


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