Tag: CAMERA

Are you a digital photographer? Like to bring your camera wherever you go and snap like crazy? Why not enter the world of buying and selling your stock photos? Lucky Oliver is a community of photographers, designers and artists who all buy and sell stock photos. The images and illustrations in Lucky Oliver are high enough quality for both web and print work, and are pretty affordable and ...

So you've got a snazzy Treo 680, but every time you whip it out to make a call or snap a photo, you realize that the battery's dead. Turns out there was a bug that allowed the camera to draw power from the battery even when the unit was in standby. Palm's issued a software patch for the problem. The fix is recommended for all Treo 680 users, but will not work with any other Treo models. You have ...

Ever wish you had a little webcam that you could stick in your pocket to use for video conferences, web chats and spying purposes at a moment's notice? No? Yeah, umm... me neither. But if you've got a Windows Mobile PDA or Smartphone with an integrated camera, all you need is some software from Ateksoft and $15, and you've got an instant webcam. WebCameraPlus works through any internet connection, ...

Worried about unsavory individuals lurking around your office or home and jacking your computer gear? Have no fear! With the help of your Windows PC, webcam, some free software, and this handy tutorial from Simplehelp, you can set up a reasonably sophisticated DIY security system. The core of the tutorial is Dorgem, an open source utility that captures images from your webcam and can save images ...

Want an easy way to record video from your webcam and post it on your blog or website? Flixn is a simple online solution to achieve this. Simply connect your webcam, press record, grab a snippet of code, and post it anywhere you like. When you plug your webcam in, Flixn.com will recognize it and instantly let you being recording. The playback mode lets you check out your video, and record again ...

On Wednesday, Google pushed its digital photo application Picasa out of beta, with many new updates. The Picasa Build 32.91 updates include: Sharing photos online though Picasa web albums Choose how folders are displayed in Picasa, though a nested folder view, or date view. Importing photos into an existing folder. Choose between four presentation views for screensavers. Tell Picasa ...

ScanR is an interesting service that lets you turn your camera phone into a "scanner." Basically you snap a shot of a document or whiteboard with your 1MP-or-better camera phone and e-mail it to ScanR, whereupon they'll send you a cleaned up, tagged version of the image as a PDF or a fax. The examples on the ScanR web site are pretty impressive, and if the fax option works well it might ...

Remember those silly mirrors that you used to find inside those goofy fun-house carnival rides? The ones that gave you the figure of Grimace or a stretched-out face?  Now, you can re-live those carnival mirror glory days with Crazy Mirror, the latest piece of Mac freeware from Tatsuo Unemi.  The program boasts a number of distortion effects to make you look, well--crazy!  You can ...