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Hello and welcome to my blog. I enjoy messing around creating websites, YouTube videos, blogs and other stuff. I write this blog in my spare time to share my enthusiasm for technology, gadgets and the internet.

31/12/2009

Netgear 85 Mbps Powerline Ethernet Switch Kit XEB1004

I got the homeplugs I talked about in the previous post today. They seem to work well, until I start yawcam. Every time I start yawcam with ftp enabled, the network connectivity suddenly vanishes and I can't get it back without restarting the laptop. I have no idea why this happens, I have tried using normal ftp (FireFTP for me) and loads of other webcam programs and they all work fine except yawcam. Update: This is a problem with yawcam and certain network cards so it does not affect this product.

25/12/2009

Webcam setup

I used to have a reasonably simple webcam setup in which I used my old Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX (USB 1.1) connected to my laptop which was running yawcam. But now, I have got a new camera for Christmas. The new camera is an analogue wireless infra red CCTV camera thing.

23/12/2009

Yawcam- Free webcam program

Yawcam is my favorite free webcam program. It has many options, you can set it to save a file to the hard disk with a set amount of time between saves, you can set it to save only on motion detection, you can set it to upload to and ftp server on motion or every so often. It can even run a server to show the live stream and another server to just show the image by itself. I used to use yawcam to run a webcam over on benellis.info but I didn't want to leave a computer on constantly, and nobody ever looked at my webcam. So I gave up. But yawcam was great while I used it. One of it's great features is the overlays. You can have it overlay the any text you want, or it can overlay the time and date or any variable from a text file such as the temperature.
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MagicISO Virtual CD/DVD Manager

This great freeware program is used to play games and other discs without actually having the disc in the drive!
To do this you just set the program to copy any disc on to your hard drive in one of the image formats: ISO,BIN/CUE,NRG,UIF. Then when it has finished, you right click on the taskbar icon and click Virtual CD/DVD-ROM and choose one of the (Up to 4) drives to mount the image to. Then your done. I've found that it dosen't work with all discs (Sim city 4 is an example)