Today, while I was going about my online business at work, one of my buddies approached me and congratulated me on my article that got highlighted on LifeHacker. I’ve been in such a fog lately, racing to finish so many articles by the end of the month, that I never stopped to take a look at the aftereffects of the articles I’ve already written this month. I remember a brief email from the editor over at MakeUseOf about something over at LifeHacker, but I think I was in the middle of a caffeine coma toward the tail end of another late-night writing binge, so it was a blur.

Turns out it’s true, over at LifeHacker they posted a highlight of the article I wrote for MakeUseOf on turning your PC into a Wi-Fi Home Surveillance system.

To say I’m honored would be an understatement. LifeHacker is the premier spot on the Internet where all tech geeks hang out and get the latest news and their techno fix. To get featured on the site is a very cool experience.

In fact, the topic itself was a blast to write. Wi-Fi technology presents so many opportunities for people to get creative with gadgetry in a way that wasn’t even possible only a few years ago. Even the layout described in my article has a number of variations. With a bunch of wi-fi cameras (ideal ones that you can assign their own IP, without the need for a PC) - you can create:

• A home surveillance system for when you’re away
• A monitoring system for haunted hot-spots (if you’re into that kind of thing)
• A perimeter around your property to monitor the schedules of your local wildlife
• A camera at your driveway to trigger an alert on your computer when someone arrives

The possibilities really are endless. And dreaming about them certainly makes for easy writing.  A huge thanks to LifeHacker for highlighting the article, and as always a thank you to MakeUseOf for hiring me on in the first place!