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Archive for September, 2008

What are the Power Hogs in your Home?

Icon Written by jennifer on September 16, 2008 – 12:02 pm

The US department of Energy (DOE) says, “Small Appliances draw 19.2 percent of total power usage in the home”.
Around the office, we have fun with a tool called the “kill-a-watt”. You plug any electronic device into it and it tells you how much power that device draws while in the “on”, “standby”, or “off” state. [...]



Architechtronics wins Control4 “MVP” at CEDIA 2008

Icon Written by jennifer on September 6, 2008 – 11:37 pm

Brett and I attended the Control4 Rockstar awards ceremony Saturday night, in Denver Colorado. We were where honored to be awarded one of twelve nation-wide Control4 awards. In this video, you will see Brett Griffin accepting the Pacific Northwest “2008 MVP” award!! Read more about the Control4 Award…



Vegging-out with VUDU

Icon Written by joshua on September 5, 2008 – 12:38 pm

 
When I decided to have a quiet weekend of vegging out and relaxing, the new VUDU box seemed like the perfect companion. As an experiment, I decided to take the box home and blindly try to set up the system without any instructions or prior knowledge of the product. The first thing I noticed was [...]