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St Patrick’s Day Webcam!

March 17th is the traditional date when everyone goes green! Not ecologically, or even politically, just green everywhere. Hats, glasses, clothes, beer, food, fountains and grass are all green for St Paddy. Where better to celebrate St Patrick’s Day than in the Irish capital, Dublin. Merrion Square is the place to be for family friendly [...]

Ghost Cams, Spy Cams, Webcam Uses…

Live webcams have come a long way in the last few years and their uses are as wide as the imagination. Webcams have been used for crime spotting, pet-sitting, baby-minding and more. There is even a webcam focused on Loch Ness just in case “Nessie” makes an appearance. The Nessie webcam has a camera attached [...]

What you can do with your Webcam

The occurrence and development of electronic means of communication brought about a very useful tool – the webcam, whose role is to make real conversation and seeing each other at the same time possible. The MSN webcam, like other webcam models, is a video capturing device which is connected to computers or computer networks. It [...]

Hacker tool can watch you through webcam

Cover your webcams and unplug your microphones, because the latest freely-available hacker tools could use your own hardware against you without your knowledge.
Security specialist Prevx showed us some of the latest scary techniques being used to take unsuspecting web users’ credit card details, passwords and personal information, as well as turn on your webcam and [...]

History Webcam

Started in 1991, the first webcam, called the CoffeeCam, was pointed at the Trojan room coffee pot in the computer science department of Cambridge University. This webcam is now defunct, as it was finally switched off on August 22, 2001. The final image captured by the camera can still be viewed at the webcam’s homepage.
The [...]