Recent content by Mannyman

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    FedEx Bandit

    I'M A FREAKIN IDIOT!!!! I had the Boost Mobile GPS tracker ready and tested. Placed it in a box (bit bigger than a shoe box) with newspaper and put the box into a recently delivered DHL bag. I was home all day ducking from the front windows so as not to be seen from outside. I put on some...
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    FedEx Bandit

    Any different placement of the cameras would be too obvious. But I'll keep trying ... I just bought the GPS tracker (30$ cell phone) from Target today, have a data cable and will download/install the software tonight so by next week : Operation Thief Hunt begins. Manny
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    FedEx Bandit

    UPS this time instead of FedEx. I thought the same thing regarding a connection, but have had many deliveries without incident. It looks like the thief just wanted to read the note as there were not any boxes to attract him to the porch. My wife wonders how much trouble I can get into by...
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    FedEx Bandit

    Update: The thief came back!! <_< We were expecting more packages last week so we left a letter sized note taped to the front door, asking the delivery guy not to drop off packages. I have new footage of him on camera 1 but he must have stopped short of activating camera2. This tells me the...
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    FedEx Bandit

    I called FedEx. (a polite Mr Solis in claims answered.) Told him a package was stolen off my porch and if there was anything he could do for me; and if I can get my address posted as one not to deliver to without confirmation. He said FedEx does not hold records of addresses that do not want...
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    FedEx Bandit

    A couple of weeks ago the hard drive in one of my touch screens died. I figured it would take me a long while to get around to fixing it. So I bid and won a KeyTec TouchScreen overlay for one of my old laptops on eBay for $50. I figured the package was late so I looked it up via the tracking...
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    Finally mounted a Fujitsu 3500

    IVB, Thanks I think your install back in Feb was what inspired me. Just caught the wife using it, heh, heh. ;)
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    Finally mounted a Fujitsu 3500

    She hates electronics...;) She thought I was going to have to replace the door, as it did not look pretty before I went to Target for the placemat. Thanks for the props. Aquarium Desktop 2006
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    Finally mounted a Fujitsu 3500

    Finally mounted a Fujitsu 3500 Boy, was my wife pissed off. Slideshow Here's the link with images. Gotta love Duct Tape I posted here as I mostly use it to control PowerHome.
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    Low priced automated window treatments

    Thanks for the reply. Even a sarcastic WAF comment will be worth it.
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    Low priced automated window treatments

    Hi, Just wondering how these units have kept up. Would you recommend them? Manny
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    $30 micro helicopter (video included)

    Will you be using PowerHome and x10 PowerMids to control it?
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    $30 micro helicopter (video included)

    Nice. Shows what $130 more bucks will get you.
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    PowerHome Roadmap Announced

    The following thread references using SAPI 5 in PowerHome.
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    $30 micro helicopter (video included)

    Here's another video. Makes me wanna get a cat.
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