Archive for November, 2009

Turn Webcam Into Motion Detection Security Camera

Do you want to check who sat on your computer while you were away? Or who entered your room while you were away? Motion Monitor is dead simple motion detection app which can take a screenshot via your webcam every time a motion is detected. In short, it converts your webcam into a motion detecting [...]

Visiting Sweden's Best Kept Secret

For centuries and up until the end of the Cold War foreigners were unwelcome in the Stockholm as Sweden worried about invasion and spying submarines. But since the fall of the Iron Curtain, most of the cannons and the signs forbidding foreigners on the archipelago’s shores have disappeared, and more foreigners are starting to find [...]

Man tracked via computer webcam

A Merseyside shop owner who bought two stolen laptops was caught after computer experts tracked him down by using remote technology. Samir Haddad, 20, of Park Road, Toxteth, was observed remotely via a webcam on one of the stolen laptops, Liverpool Magistrates’ Court heard. The cameras took photographs of him which were key to a [...]

World's Largest Cruise Ship Sets Sail

Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas cruise ship is pictured at the STX Europe shipyard in Turku on September 17, 2009. The world’s largest cruise liner ? the Oasis of the Seas ? has set sail for Miami from the Finnish shipyard where it was built. Straight from the Finnish Shiphard, the Cruise Liner Takes [...]

Citroën on the Eiffel Tower

To celebrate 90 years of Citroën and 120 years of the Eiffel Tower, the two are joining forces again, after 75 years, in a stunning display of Créative Technologie. Every night for three months from last Thursday, a special 12-minute light show will take place on the Eiffel Tower – one minute for each decade [...]

Webcam Works

Isabelle Jenniches: Webcam Works Solo exhibition (closing) October 2 – November 6, 2009 Cabrillo Gallery 6500 Soquel Drive, Room 1002 (below library) at Cabrillo College, Aptos, California Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 9 AM – 4 PM, Monday & Tuesday evenings 7 – 9PM Jenniches’ fascination for live cameras on the Internet – webcams – began over [...]