Solar Security Lights

Solar lights, specifically solar security lights are a must for every home. These nifty little lights can be used in either a remote or local area to protect outdoor and indoor landscapes. You may have stumbled across at least three varieties of solar lighting. These lights are excellent for home or business owners who are in dire need of lighting, on a tight budget not allowing for the additional expense of wiring and service to a dark spot. This is the reason why solar lighting is so extremely beneficial.

Today lighting manufacturers are able to provide consumers with an endless selection of solar lights in a number of styles and options to pick and choose from. A selection of the most beautiful, decorative lights that can serve as garden accents, as well as providers of security and safety absolutely anywhere and is available both online as well as at your local lighting specialist. Some of these solar lighting fixtures also come with dawn and dusk detectors, which mean the lights, can be set to switch on as soon as dusk sets in and operate until morning breaks.

This is an obvious example of a very common solar security lighting scenario, but most probably the greatest benefit of solar lights is the fact that these fixtures can be installed in any place at any time. For example, a home owner wants a solar light in a corner of a very dense and bushy spot in his or her garden; it would take literally a matter of minutes to install a solar yard light. Alternately, the owner would have to call in the assistance of an electrician to install the wiring and electrical service in the garden and then to install a conventional security light. What this means is that not only does the home owner benefit from the lack of wires, but the lights are also run at absolutely no cost; without any impact on his or her electricity bills.

Security is a major worry for all homeowners regardless of where their homes are located. They go to extreme lengths to protect their homes with alarm system installations in an attempt to successfully deter criminals. Motion sensor lights are also a great thieve deterrent. There is absolutely no doubt that thieves and burglars are less likely to break into well-light homes and gardens because of the fact that these homes and gardens leave them exposed and unable to proceed with their thieving plans. Bad news is however that experienced criminals have now identified a successful means to get around motion sensor lights. Light wires are cut, chop-chop. This makes solar security light installation the ultimate crime-combat solution.

Solar security lights unlike other lighting systems require no wiring to operate. The main source of their energy is solar energy instead of electrical energy. Should you decide to opt for solar security motion sensor installation say for example at your front door, there would be absolutely no way for burglars to cut much-needed light wiring. That's because there are no wires to be severed. Once the lights are turned on there would be absolutely no way for criminals to turn it off.

Solar security lights are charged during the day and even during bad weather, light batteries still charge with up to 50 hours of power per solo charge. It's of utmost importance for solar security lights to form a part of your home's security system in conjunction with other deterring measures.

These lights will keep your home safe, secure and of course well-light, at more than half of the cost of conventional security lights! A selection of fantastic light features that are not just bright, but also 100% reliable in terms of motion detection, are available that will trigger the light upon any motion in light's pre-set radius.

Some types of solar lights can be used in several modes to work as conventional flood lighting, spot lighting or pure security lighting. Loads of people use solar lights as a really effective way to keep their homes safe and to help with ease of visibility while at the same time not distracting neighbors or wasting costly energy. These methods include but are definitely not limited to front door lighting, garage lighting, patio lighting, driveway light and pool lighting.

Most solar security lights come standard with ground stakes, wall mountings or can be custom made in accordance with customer specifications and preferences. Your own fastening and connection methods can be applied with the greatest of ease thanks to universal molds, making the install process quick and DIY friendly.

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The Next Step for Social Networking

Maybe it's just me, but I've observed that the focus on social networking sites appears to be going increasingly more in the direction of sharing everything with everybody. These sites want us to believe that our friends care about the latest "make money online" trend, and that our family wants to learn about that hot date we had last night. They convince us that the more information that we post, the more subscribers we'll collect and the more accepted we'll become.

So what’s wrong with that? For my part, I have accounts with two of the largest social networking sites, as well as a few others. I log into at least those two each morning. My “book” wall usually has about 160 fresh posts since I last visited, and my “little blue bird” site has roughly double that many. While I would like to check and see what a particular segment of my contact list is up to, how can I even peruse that many posts to discover the ones that interest me? I guess I could start drinking my morning coffee from a bigger cup…

Now, I don't have a huge list of contacts. It’s quite small, actually in comparison to those that I've seen with thousands of followers, or subscribers, or whatnot. I am afraid to put more people on my contact list for fear that I will likely be overwhelmed by what my grandfather used to call “raucous cacophony” (loosely translated to imply “inharmonious noise”).

My other concern is that I do not truly believe that my networking contacts on the other side of the planet actually care about my friend’s birthday party, and I am positive my friends are sick of hearing about my most recent weblog entry on the versatility of commercial hybrid lighting. In truth, any given post will connect with those who will wish to read it and others that don’t. The more I post, the less likely people will read them, due to my history of posting things they don’t care about.

This is not an uncommon phenomenon. If you want a smaller percentage of your posts read, add more contacts. It’s not the most effective use of your time, but the more contacts you add, the smaller the percentage of those contacts will in fact read your posts.

What about your “bio”? For my part, I have learned to put nothing more than the most generic bio descriptions for my social networking accounts. I just don’t want to deal with people getting information about me that I don’t need them to know. I could open several accounts with various bios for different purposes, but that seems to me to be a bit of a bother. I do, nonetheless, know several folks who have done just that.

So what do I want? I want my contacts categorized into groups that I can easily manage. I want to see what’s happening with my friends or my coworkers or my networking contacts just by going to the appropriate “wall”. I would like to be on my “friends” wall and post something and be confident that just my “friends” will see it. I want to look for all my contacts that live near me and quickly and easily send a post to only them. I want my coworkers to visit my profile and see that I am a mature professional, or my networking contacts to read that I am a blue widgets authority. I would like my friends to view the image I took of Jason with the lampshade on his head, without my coworkers inquiring as to quality of my friends.

The best part is that since I'm only sending messages to people that I'm sure will want to read them, more of my posts will actually get read! I can send out party invites to my friends in San Jose, or quickly update my coworkers about a change in plans for the next meeting.

In essence, what I want is a "buzz conduit" which will direct the buzz to where I want it to go and give me just the buzz I wish to hear at any given time. I need that, and I would like some privacy back.

While it seems that the web 2.0 giants are not going to do anything akin to this any time soon, there is a website launching that will. It's going to allow you, me, and everybody else that wants to to have their very own buzz conduit. It will be called buzzduit.com, and it’s being built as we speak.

Go to buzzduit.com or take a look at their blog if you want to know the second it is ready to launch.

Solar Patio Lights

Now that spring is almost here, quite a few of us are looking forward to backyard BBQs and other evening social events.  We love to have these get-togethers on our back patios.  Many of us, therefore, know the importance of having adequate light.  Not having enough light can turn a festive evening into an event that will be talked about for all the wrong reasons!  Solar patio lights are one of the easiest ways to insure that you and your guests get full enjoyment out of the evening.

Do you have patio lights now?  Most back yards have a single bulb, mounted to the outside wall with a switch inside that turns it on and off.  I have seen people actually holding a flashlight while trying to cook on the BBQ!  “Hold this and aim it at the chicken” is a phrase I have heard all too often.  I have even seen back patios with extension chords running along the awnings to try to get more lights to dark sections of the yard.  I remember a party I went to a year or so ago where we kept losing our light because people kept unplugging the extension chord by tripping over it! There has got to be a better way!

There is better way.  It is solar patio lights.  Solar lights can be mounted pretty much anywhere you need and have so many options and styles to choose from that it is very easy to find the perfect combination of lights to give you exactly what you need, where you need it.  You can opt to install several lights around the edge of your patio to give a soft glowing light to the whole area, providing a warm and inviting ambience. You can use solar spot lights to highlight other areas of your patio.   You can set them up to cast a multicolored glow from your patio cover or awning.

The great thing about solar patio lights is that they need no external electrical supply source.  Like with all solar lights, you need only install them so that their solar panels can receive direct sunlight during the day, and when evening comes they will switch on automatically.  They come in a vast array of styles so you can mix and match them to work with your existing patio decor.  Installation can usually be accomplished in a matter of minutes.

The biggest concern from consumers about using outdoor solar lights has been in the areas of cost and dependability.  Over the last couple of years, however, solar technology has grown so much as to render those concerns obsolete.  Solar cells have become much more efficient and much less expensive to manufacture.  The integration of LED lighting has made concerns about bulbs burning out a thing of the past.  With a little bit of research and some savvy buying your patio can be beautifully lit with solar patio lights.