Webcam Performance Etiquette
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Maybe your mom didn't think to tell you to use your manners when you participate in an adult chat room. But she shouldn't have to. In Sex Drive Daily.
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A new product from Swarmcast monitors data flow to optimize video quality.
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SEATTLE - Now that digital cameras have overtaken film cameras in sales, users are beginning to encounter a familiar problem -- what to do with the bulging image files and folders filling up computer hard drives?
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A business site is no place to cut corners. Here's how to make sure you get the best performance, reliability and service at the best price.
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In light of the popularity of his WebThumb site thumbnailing service, Joshua Eichorn is implementing a new feature to help reduce the number of requests to the server. The most popular request is made to see if a thumbnail is ready, and the new feature - a GET callback to the server making the request - will help to reduce them.    If you wondered an API that requires polling isn't a very good thing for scalability. On my current setup I can pretty easily handle about 20 status requests per second on top of my normal traffic, the problem is its not hard for a bad polling implmentation being run by one user to make that many requests.   To solve this problem im adding an addition to the Webthumb API that will allow you to skip polling all together. The basic idea is that your make an API request and when your thumbnail is complete i'll make a GET request back too your server telling you that the request is complete.    It's a simple matter of including a new "notify" tag in the XML message to the server with a URL to make the callback to. He even includes some sample PHP code to get you started with the new feature. The script handles the automatic download of the thumbnails when called from the WebThumb service.
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Q: DEAR TIM: I travel on business frequently, and my wife wants me to install security cameras in and around our home. Are wireless security cameras the way to go, or should I consider wired ones? Do I have to buy separate outdoor security cameras so I can view certain parts of my yard at night?
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Cottage industries, start your webcams.
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Tapeless camcorders have arrived, but be aware of price, capacity and picture quality.
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High tech narcissism or old fashioned stupidity? Every now and then, I think it's healthy to sit back and recap on industry best practice. However, I'm not going to do that here. It's much more fun to tear into worst practice.â¦
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'Intrusive and unnecessary' Closed-circuit television (CCTV) system operators would need exceptional justification for recording sound as well as video, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned.â¦
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There is no question that the popular social networking site is taking over all aspects of our lives. As this new era dawns, it is important to keep in mind certain principles of etiquette. Firstly, Poke with caution and moderation.
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With varying degrees, all digital cameras produce images with electronic noise, chromatic aberrations, and vignetting. This week you'll learn how to reduce the effects of these imperfections in your RAW files. By O'Reilly Media, Inc. 0708
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You built your network to be perfect - so why is it so slow?  Want better performance without sacrificing security?  Need tighter security without slowing performance? Learn the seven essential points for maximizing Internet performance while improving security - including policy and threat management, event correlation and more.
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Staged photographs produce some class acts
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As travel has gotten harder, Web conferencing has gotten easier. All it takes is a broadband connection, a laptop and a Webcam. So why does anybody go anywhere any more?
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By DUNKERLEY, Adam  Help! I'm confused!   And no wonder! Computer specs can all seem too much when all we really want to do is get on with playing games, running our businesses or chatting online.
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My relatives have become accustomed to me brandishing the latest digital gizmo at family gatherings, so when I started snapping photos recently with a new, slightly unorthodox bytecam, they barely expressed casual interest -- until I mentioned the camera's resolution: seven megapixels.