Setting Up A Webcam on Old Re-Purposed Computer Equipment, Using Yawcam

There are a lot of good quality IP cameras out there (as well as a lot of el cheapo not-so-good quality ones) that work well.   But if you don’t mind a larger physical footprint and a lack of portability – admittedly two important reasons about why people buy small portable…

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Zwift – Quick Review (During Trial Period)

Every once in a while something really innovative and useful really does come along – sometimes as an evolution of many other ideas which are ingeniously innovated into one cohesive concept.  And like a good percentage of these really good new ideas that come along you may sometimes say to…

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We Need Broadband

We’ve had our share of companies trying to cover our area with Wimax or other wireless services, none seem to have come through on more than a small-scale. One company, Ridgeviewtel (who also have some deployments here in Jefferson County), has set up a petition/info form to map the location…

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Internet Rumors, Upper NY Modified Garmin Maps, Scheduled Blog Entries, Mobiola Web Camera 3 – Use Your Cameraphone as a Webcam

Internet Rumors Ever play that game in elementary school where the teacher tells one kid something and that kid tells someone else, and it goes around the room until each student has told someone else? It’s an exercise to show how rumors and fact can be readily distorted, at least…

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Take Action: Save the Internet

A little something from the petition website: “A new bill has been introduced in U.S. House that would stop Comcast, Verizon and AT&T from controlling what you do, and where you go online. In 2006, 1.6 million people stopped mighty phone and cable companies from gutting Net Neutrality. In 2007,…

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Box.net Bookmarks Synchronizer

Box.net Bookmarks Synchronizer Brian, an intern at Box.net, e-mailed me after reading my blog entry about the Scribefire Blogging add-on. He wanted me to know about Box.net‘s new Bookmarks Synchronizer add-on for Firefox – just in case I might want to write about it on my Blog. The add-on synchronizes your…

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Tucker; in mid-jump, Flickr, Wayback Machine, Commodores and Modern ASCII Art

Another picture and playing around with the camera some more, Flickr Another nice action shot taken with the Canon A570 IS. Continually impressed with the 570’s features, quality, and quality of the pics. Lots of interesting little things with the camera along with the bigger features – I discovered yesterday…

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