NBC’s Today Show did a segment on smarthomes today — and guess who was their tech expert? Yours truly, that’s who! We chatted about the various solutions out there, approximate costs and who they’re for. OK, so I’m only on for a few seconds, but who’s counting? Do you have a “smart home” of some kind? Any high-tech automation or remote monitoring going on? Think it’s a trend or the way of the future? Do tell.

Passport? Check. Suntan lotion? Yep. Camera? Of course. Taking a camera on a vacation is a must in order to immortalize those memories in the sun and sharing them with family and friends. But you don’t get a second chance to capture that moment, so our friends at Nikon Canada have shared their Top 10 tips to taking great vacation pictures.

A new Retrevo study entitled “Are Consumers Warming Up to Shopping On Their Mobile Phones?” found only 8 percent of those surveyed said they’d never shop on their cell phone.

Great computer games never die – they’re just reborn at Good ‘Ol Games (www.gog.com), a website devoted to resurrecting classic computer games.

Use a computer? Chances are you have passwords to log onto your PC, email program and perhaps websites like your bank and Facebook. But if you use any of these commonly-used passwords, change them ASAP.

Check out Pandigital’s line of LCD greeting cards — a world’s first, says the company — that places a 1.4-inch liquid crystal display (with photos you cn replace with your own) inside of a traditional greeting card. Is this something you’d buy?