Sensr is a great website that lets you view your home remotely. Sensr monitors your house via a computer camera feed. It then keeps a look out for any motion. Any motion is picked up and provided online as snapshots.

You can have the service send out an email or text message each time it detects motion in the feed. You can also log onto the video feed URL provided to you by Sensr; this URL can be made public or private. By visiting the URL you can view the camera’s live feed and all the saved snapshots organized by date.

Features:

• A user friendly web service.
• Lets you remotely monitor your home through a computer camera.
• Detects motion and notifies you via email and text message.
• Takes snapshots of instances when motion is detected.
• Organizes these snapshots and lets you view them anytime.
• Provides a URL for the live feed of the camera.
• URL can be made public or private.
• Similar tool: HomeCamera, Vitamin D, HighlightCam, HomeCamera and UGOlog.
• Also check out our articles:
  How To Build A WiFi Home Surveillance System
  3 Most Effective Cell Phone Surveillance Apps to Monitor Your Kids
  How To Build A WiFi Home Surveillance System With Your PC

Check out Sensr @ www.sensr.net

You can add furniture, decorations, televisions, and much more, but you can also start from a pre-furnished room. The products you customize the room with are actual top quality products offered by specialist retailers. Advanced item placing tools and view options help you best visualize your ideas. You can save your work and show it to friends to get their opinions.

For more info watch demo video:

Features:

• Lets you preview interior design ideas.
• Lets you customize rooms with actual items and products.
• Offers great customization and viewing tools.
• Lets you save and share your work.
• Similar tools: SeeMyDesign, Houzz, DesignYourDorm, SmallBluePrinter, Buildy and ProjectDragonfly.
• Also read related article:
  The 6 Best Blogs For Architectural & Interior Design Ideas
  3 other Apps to Decorate and Plan your House

Check out Love My Home @ www.lovemyhome.de/?lang=en (by MOin from ThumbPress)

In order to get Google PowerMeter, you’ll have to choose a device or sign up with a utility given on their website. Google has partnered with certain smart meter manufacturers in UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Germany, and you’ll find the corresponding firm names on the site when you hit the “Get PowerMeter” button.

Features

• Home energy consumption monitor online.
• Predict your electricity bills.
• See what’s causing spikes in energy usage.
• Set and track home energy budget.
• You need a utility smart meter that Google has partnered with.
• Similar tools: AppliancesEnergyUse, HomeEnergySaver, FuelCharts and MicrosoftHohm.

Check out Google PowerMeter @ www.google.com/powermeter (By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

MoodCam is a free app sized at 5.6MB, compatible with iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad that are running on iOS 3.1.2 or later.

The app helps users determine which one of GE’s lighting products will help them achieve the desired mood of the room. You start by getting a digital image of your room. With the iPhone you could simply shoot the picture; with the iPod or iPad you will need to import the image by shooting from an external camera. You then select the brightness level and other factors to achieve your desired mood.

Once you have created the final look, GE analyzes the picture and suggests which of its lights will be best for your room.

Features:

• An iPhone app compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
• Will work on Apple devices running iOS 3.1.2 or later.
• Lets you set a lighting mood for your room.
• Suggests appropriate GE lighting products to achieve the desired mood in the room.
• Also read related articles: 10 Fun Challenging Time Management Games [iPhone & iTouch], 7 More Unique & Creative Uses for the iPhone and discover more iPhone apps.

Get the GE MoodCam app @ GE MoodCam (via Gizmodo) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

If you are interested, click on the suggested item to know more about how to grow it and how to take care of it. You can also sign up to receive free alerts when it is time to grow something else in your garden. A neat checklist helps you keep organized and SproutRobotPlus even sends you free seeds and information in the mail for a small yearly fee.

Features:

• Find out what and when to grow in your garden.
• Get customized tips based on your location.
• Read more about growing each item.
• Use the checklist to keep your gardening organized.
• Sign up to receive free alerts about more items you can grow.
• No registration required.
• Similar tools: GardenPuzzle, GardenPlanner and iBotanika.

Visit SproutRobot @ www.sproutrobot.com (Via TechCrunch)

HowToCleanAnything is a free cleaning guide website with tips on cleaning different things off numerous surfaces. The theme of the site is cleanliness; there are guides for pet owners trying to keep the house clean, for people trying to keep their car clean, etc.

In addition to this the site gives us handy precautionary tips which end up saving a lot of time and effort in the long run. The tips and cleaning guides can be browsed easily as they are placed in categories.

Features:

• Free of charge.
• Contains guides on how to clean almost everything in the house (and most things outside the house).
• Provides users with tips to prevent situations that will later requiring drastic cleaning actions.
• Wide variety of categories covering almost anything.
• Similar sites;  Stain Solutions and HowToCleanStuff.
• Also see our articles: “The Best Way To Effectively Clean LCD Monitor Screens” and “Quickly Clean Your Laptop Keys With Keyboard Cleaner “.

Check out How to clean anything @ www.howtocleananything.com

Another tool on the same site allows you to try out furniture layouts which is useful if you’re thinking about rearranging your couches and tables. While neither of these tools will give you an absolute idea of how your design ideas will look when made concrete, they can both help enough to spur your creativity. Let your juices flow!

Features

• Try out furniture, flooring and wall combinations before going to the store.
• Lay out furniture to see what will fit in your floorspace.
• Java-based web applications.
• Similar tools: SmallBluePrinter, Buildy, ProjectDragonfly and 3 other Apps to Decorate and Plan your House.

Check out SeeMyDesign @ www.seemydesign.com

You may even install multiple cameras and monitor more than one location. It constantly records, but saves and alerts you only when a relevant object is detected, eliminating false positives.

The application is small (26 MB) in size and very easily to set up. Once installed, you simply select the cameras that Vitamin D recognizes on you computer and start recording.

If you’re a shopkeeper who wants to keep an eye on things, a concerned parent who wants to keep an eye on their little children, or simply a cautious house-owner who thinks it’s better to be safe than sorry, than go over to Vitamin D’s webpage and download this wonderful application right now!

Demo video:

Features:

• Whether you’ve got a Mac or PC, Vitamin D will run on both systems. Click here for the detailed system requirements.
• With integrated image recognition techniques, Vitamin d can tell when an object is moving. Say you’ve got the webcam set up to show your backyard. You can specify Vitamin d to alert you whenever a person walks into the frame. This can be a fantastic way to be prepared of any break-ins.
• The program distills a long day of video into an interactive highlight reel of important events. One click filters your results to only show people, and keyboard shortcuts let you scan your day in seconds.
• Similar tools: HighlightCam, HomeCamera and UGOlog. Also check out our article on How To Build A WiFi Home Surveillance System.

Check out Vitamin D @ www.vitamindinc.com

Features:

• Design huge custom wall stickers.
• Upload your pictures and create prints.
• Different print size available.
• Prices start at $45 and increase according to the print size.
• 100% no questions asked money back guarantee.

Check out LTLprints @ www.ltlprints.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

Features:

• Free deck design software online.
• Flexible designer that lets you create as many decks as you like.
• Easy to use and provides step by step information.
• Gives you a full report that contains:
  - 3-D model of your deck.
  - Full list of all the materials you will need to build that deck.
  - Detailed installation guidelines and tips.
• Free, no registration needed.

Check out DeckDesigner @ http://www.diyonline.com/servlet/GIB_Base/bobvilabegin