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You’ve been there for your friends and family members during the long and difficult road to New York. Now you can be there for them on race day. Here, you can record a personal video of support to someone close to you who’s running in this year’s marathon. Or if you don’t have a webcam, [...]
October 21st, 2010 | Posted in Webcam Events, Webcam History | Comments Off
One of the later summer festivals, this live webcam feed is in the Croatian coastal town of Pula, home of the 2010 Outlook Festival, at Fort Punta Christo. A wide range of musical tastes are catered for at this summer festival, with best in reggae, hiphop, dubstep, broken beat, drum & bass and dance-floor soul [...]
September 1st, 2010 | Posted in Webcam History, webcam travel, Webcam Weather | Comments Off
The College of Saint Scholastica is a private college with its main campus located in Duluth, Minnesota. The College was founded in 1912 by a group of pioneering Benedictine Sisters who offered college courses to six young women. Today St. Scholastica educates more than 2,800 men and women and has graduated more than 13,000 alumni. [...]
April 28th, 2010 | Posted in Webcam History, webcam travel | Comments Off
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 [...]
March 15th, 2010 | Posted in Webcam History, Webcam Story | Comments Off
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 [...]
March 4th, 2010 | Posted in Webcam Fun, Webcam History, Webcam Story | Comments Off
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 [...]
February 25th, 2010 | Posted in webcam Chat, Webcam History, Webcam Story | Comments Off
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 [...]
September 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Webcam Hardware, Webcam History, Webcam Installation, Webcam Security, Webcam Software | Comments Off
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. [...]
August 13th, 2008 | Posted in Webcam History | Comments Off