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Internet browsers have been given a welcome to Garstang in England, courtesy of the town’s first webcams. Browsers worldwide can now get a live view of Garstang High Street thanks to the Chamber of Trade and the garstanglink organisation.

The first of two of several web cameras were sited on a first floor window above Carrs Jewellers last week and are now in operation, showing lives webcam shots of the High Street worldwide via the website garstang : Garstang Webcams

The traders’ group and garstanglink thought it was important to include live scenes of Garstang in addition to the photos of the town already on the website.

The two webcams were fixed by Les Woodland, of Bristol-based Camsecure, watched by community campaigners Lynn Harter and Damian Carr. They show live scenes looking north and south along High Street. Mrs Harter, an organiser of garstanglink, said: “I was going to try to install them at Carrs myself with telephone assistance from Les, but I felt with my limited knowledge it may have taken some time and I didn’t want to fuse the High Street!”

Financial sponsorship for the weatherproof webcams has come from Visit Wyre/Wyre tourism department. Garstang Chamber of Trade and Carrs have contributed to the installation cost of the cameras on Carrs premises.

Two more webcams are planned in the near future one at Booths, which will focus on Cherestanc Square and will be paid for by the store company and fixed by its IT department, the other at the canal basin near Th’owed Tithebarn. The total cost of the cameras and fittings will be around 1000$

Mrs Harter stressed that the cameras were to boost Garstang’s image as a tourist destination and not for security purposes. She said: “Images are not stored in any form and the cameras cannot zoom in on any individual or car number plate.” The cameras are technically owned by Mrs Harter who helped set up the garstanglink group recently to bring together town organisations.

Mrs Harter said being able to show Garstang off to the world was particularly important this year because of Garstang’s entry in the International Bloom-eco competition. She said: “We can now focus on our important, wonderful festivals, our flower competitions, our market days, our Town Crier competition in Cherestanc Square in August.

“As the webcams are infra red, the Victorian festival and the  Lights switch-on will also be able to be seen. It will be nice for relatives of local people as well as ‘ex-pats’ to see the town in this way.

“At the moment two webcams share one link and you can only see one live view at a time, and I am quite aware that when a lot of people are looking the picture ‘jumps’ rather rapidly from north to south. This will be addressed shortly, when two images will be transmitted independently and both will be seen as live images.” And she said: “Occasional cleaning away of spiders’ webs will be my responsibility!” Garstang Webcams

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While police in Newport News search for the thieves who broke into a woman’s home and stole her laptop, a Richmond tech expert is talking about how that computer took a picture of the suspects and e-mailed it to the victim.

The snapshot came courtesy of the laptop’s built-in webcam. “Many laptops nowadays have them, so they inherently have the ability to take pictures,” said Kevin Boynton, the owner of The Computer Doctor of Richmond. “It really comes down to what software is loaded on the computer.”

Investigators say the victim had her laptop set up to take pictures of her while she used it. A few days after it was stolen, a photo of the possible suspects was sent to her e-mail address. “There’s a chance they didn’t know the picture was taken,” Boynton said.

Many people complain that when they are talking on skype, freewebcamcall or instant messenger MSN and using their webcams, they find that the video images are very poor. Though pay a little more money you can get a webcam with good images on ShopWebcam.com, the cheapest one is also possible to have rich images and to improve your webcam images it just needs some adjustments.

Improve your webcam images method one: Light source

Though fluorescent lights can save energy, it also would make your camera’s video images look dull and faded. So it is a good idea to use the realistic light like traditional light bulbs to light on the subject’s face. Besides, the location of the light source should be considered; move the light source to an appropriate place if it can. Make a test on testwebcam.com

Improve your webcam images method two: Good background

This factor is often overlooked by many people, but the color and images of the objects behind you also may make your images dull. Lightly or darkly solid color backgrounds are recommended; avoid putting any objects that would cause reflections to the subject or the computer screen.

Improve your webcam images method three: Adjust the focus ring

If your webcam image is not sharp, check if it has a focus ring. A blurry webcam image can sometimes simply mean the webcam is not in focus. Place the subject in frame, in the position they will be when the video is being taken, and adjust the focus ring on the camera lens until the image is sharp and clear.

Improve your webcam images method four: Adjust the monitor

If your monitor is too bright, your eyeglasses may get reflections from the screen, or the screen may paint your face so the webcam video images will looked dull and faded. Adjust the brightness of your monitor to the point that it does not cast any colors or reflections on you. You can test your webcam on testwebcam.com