Home Security Shoppers

Home security system shopping can be a confusing task if you don’t know what you are looking for. There are many options and packages available from a lot of different home security system providers. Here are some guidelines to help you make the decision on purchasing the best security system for your family.

1. Check the home security company’s Better Business Bureau rating. See if they are accredited with the BBB and what their rating is. The BBB rates companies on a scale of A+ to F so the higher the better, just like in grade school.

2. Check customer reviews online. This is the most telling sign if a home security system company treats their customers well and if they deliver quality customer service. Check both editorial reviews on websites like http://www.securityplanet.com/best-home-security-systems/ and actual customer review sites. Another good place to check is complaint boards to see if there are any unhappy customers.

3. Call at least two home security companies. This way you can be sure that you get the best deal out there. Alot of times a home security company will take a competitors coupons or at least price match the deal you are getting from another company. It never hurts to ask.

Hopefully these tips will help you with your next home security system purchase. Be sure to come back and check out the latest information on home security and technology.

Home Security and Technology

In recent years home security has made strides of improvement. Let us take a look at what the industry looked like about ten years ago. If you purchased a home security system in the early 2000′s then it was most likely a hard-wired system that came professionally installed and used your phone line to communicate to the home security company’s central monitoring station. There also weren’t many options for security dealers, you most likely would of called a local representative.

Fast forward ten years and you know have many options available and the technology has drastically improved. If you do a Google search for the “best home security system” you’ll find a lot of results of home security companies along with home security review websites. There is no shortage of information available to help you make the smartest buying decision and to properly protect your home and family from intruders, fire and dangerous levels of carbon monoxide. Not to mention with the technological improvements home automation is now closely tied in with your home security system. Read more

ios-5-1-imessage-fix

We have so many first world problems here at TekShot5 sometimes…  Upgrade to IOS 5.1 and iMessage stops working!  What will we ever do?!  Life just isn’t worth living without iMessage!!!

If you are just like us and just got around to upgrading your iPhone IOS to 5.1 you may or may not have noticed a problem.  We did!  TekShot5 is a big fan of the iMessage feature released with IOS 5 but after the recent upgrade it seemed more or less broken.  No matter what we did we couldn’t get it working.  We activated and deactivated stuff, we rebooted a million times, reset wireless routers, changed DNS servers, you name it.  After all of this we got desperate and headed to Google only to find there are a lot you out there like us.  A lot of users are coming up short when it comes to solutions on how to get iMessage working again.  Well after a good bit of digging we found a fix that had us back up and running in no time! Read more

Tabbed Browsing History and Tricks

Web surfing is part of our daily lives here at TekShot5. With that being said, we can honestly tell you there is nothing new or tech related out there that’s worth talking about. So instead we are going to share our wisdom on “Tabs.” Read more

Spokeo what is it how do I remove myself from it

It comes in waves but every once in a blue moon you might find a warning about Spokeo on your Facebook or in your email.  The latest one TekShot5 received was about a month ago and read something like this: Read more

Thesis for WordPress

Notice anything different?  Today we look at the Thesis Premium WordPress theme.

Let’s just say the TekShot5 staff knows a thing or two when it comes to the ones and zeros that make up this digital world but when it comes to web design we definitely fall short.  After doing the ChristianPF review and making remarks about how clean and organized Bob Lotich’s site looked, we got to thinking…  If he has a clean and organized site then why can’t TekShot5 too? Read more

The Disconnect Extension

For some reason here at TekShot5, we have hit the online privacy issue pretty hard lately.  First was HTTPS Everywhere, a free extension that forces webpages to use a secure link from you and the web server you are talking to.  Then we touched on Spokeo, what exactly it is and how to remove yourself from it.  Today we are going to talk about the Disconnect extension created by Disconnect Inc., a Menlo Park, California startup that’s doing their best to look out for you best interests by preventing Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yahoo from tracking your activities online. Read more

BloApp Review

In an effort to drive more readers to Tekshot5 I decided to look into smartphone apps.  Through a quick search I ran across Bloapp.  Bloapp advertises their product by telling you that you can convert your blog into Iphone or Android app but after completing the process I now see that as kind of misleading. This app allows you to quickly convert your blog into Iphone and Android readable format that your readers can view using the Bloapp.  So you don’t actually get your own App but more like a listing in the Bloapp supported blogs. Read more

Playstation 4 Orbis

In our brief 30 minute interview with Sir Howard Stringer, the Sony CEO, we found out a lot of good stuff about the new PS4.  Okay, so were totally kidding about getting an interview with the Sony CEO but we do have the internet and we found out some cool stuff you may or may not know… Read more

iPhone 5 Rumors and News

High tech lovers and iPhone gurus are anticipating the arrival of the new iPhone 5.  The phone is expected to make its grand appearance in June of 2012. Tekshot5.com reports.

4G speed, a new A6 processor, as well as awesome video and chat features are only a few upgrades tech lovers can expect to see on the new iPhone 5.  Other features to look for upon the release of the new phone are; face recognition security, GPS capabilities, and a 4 inch glass screen with an aluminum back. Read more