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  Give peaches the slip
If you love to cook with peaches, but hate peeling the skins, Chef Belinda’s popular how-to video is just for you. Go to SCLiving.coop/food/che elinda to see how easy it is to remove the fuzzy skins without butchering the sweet fruit underneath.
Snakes
alive!
Enjoy the great outdoors even more this summer when you learn how to avoid trouble with South Carolina’s 38 species of snakes at SCLiving.coop/ snakes.
One unique
yard sale
When the S.C. State Museum decides to hold a yard sale, there’s just no telling what curious items will emerge from the storage rooms. Visit SCLiving.coop/ museum as pho-
tographer Andrew Haworth takes us behind the scenes of the 2018 event to answer the burning question: How much would you pay for a 7-foot-tall Häagen-Dazs tub?
Win $100 in cold cash
It’s been another sizzling South Carolina summer  lled with triple-digit heat index days. That’s why we’re o ering you a chance to win a very cool treat—
a $100 Visa gift card—
in our August Reader Reply Travel Sweep- stakes. We’ll draw
one winner’s name
at random from all eligible entries received by Aug. 31, so don’t delay. Register online at SCLiving.coop/ reader-reply.
    Smart home technologies
Taking care of things at home has never been easier, thanks to the latest generation of smart home technologies—appliances that utilize mobile apps and wireless communication to give users complete control from just about anywhere they roam. Here are some of the systems you can command with a few taps on your smartphone.
Smart thermostats
With app-enabled models, you and your family can use a mobile device
to program heating and cooling
for maximum savings when you’re away; maximum comfort when you’re home. The latest development is geofencing. Some systems and apps allow the homeowner to set a radius around the dwelling, and whenever you cross that boundary, your thermostat automatically goes into “away” or “return” mode, depending on your direction of travel.
Smart security
This rapidly evolving area of smart home technology started with smart door
locks to replace old-fashioned keys, and video doorbells, which beam images of front-porch visitors right to your mobile device. As the price of wireless cameras drops, home- owners can canvass their homes and properties to keep an eye on everything from anywhere.
Smart detectors
A new breed of smoke detectors and carbon- monoxide sensors will send alerts to your
phone, allow remote status checks and—perhaps most useful of all—let you silence false alarms quickly and easily.
Smart appliances
A wide variety of devices large and small—from counter- top slow-cookers to
clothes dryers to your HVAC system— now allow remote operation. There are even refrigerators with interior cameras so you can check to see how much milk is left while standing in the grocery store aisle. —TOM TATE
                        Apps allow you to set your home’s thermostat, activate the dryer’s wrinkle guard and get dinner started in the slow cooker, all with a few taps on your mobile device.
SCLIVING.COOP | AUGUST 2018 | SOUTH CAROLINA LIVING 7
ANDREW HAWORTH JONATHAN SHARPE