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Free software– Ispy webcam and camera software

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iSpy uses your cameras, webcams, IP cams and microphones to detect and record movement or sound.

ispy spying camera or webcam network cam

Free ispy camera / webcam software

I was trawling the internet to get some software to use with my new webcam i purchased from Woolworths for a measly $10 when ic ame across this “FREE software ISPY” on the internet .I can tell you the camera works pretty well ( let me know if you want to know the brand)

I spy’s captured media is compressed to flash video or mp4 and streamed securely over the web and local network. iSpy can run on multiple computers simultaneously and has full Email, SMS and MMS alerting functions and remote viewing.

The ispy software has  nice blurb on how he came about to making this software for webcam and cameras for everybody  for free. go read it here – www.ispyconnect.com . An donate to the website  if you like the software

Here are some specification requirements for ispy camera

OS: Windows XP/ Vista/ 7/ 8 (32 bit & 64)
Microsoft .Net framework (v4 client) – will be installed if required
License: Free (Open Source)

Download the ispy Camera software here

iSpy is available in :
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Deutsch, ελληνικά, Español, Française, Hrvatski, Italiano, Magyar, Nederlands, Русский, Polski, Português, 中文 (繁體), 한국어 and 中文

Random link of the day: http://tazeryouintheface.tumblr.com/

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Free Photo album software – Visual lightbox

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Did you ever want to  create a photo gallery  or a “online photo album” ,but did not know how to do it  or construct the code to put it online on a website , now this free software “visual lightbox” makes this job real easy

Free photo album software

Visual LightBox JS is a free wizard program that helps you easily generate web photo galleries with a nice Lightbox-style overlay effect, in a few clicks without writing a single line of code. Just drag&drop your photos into Visual LightBox window, press "Publish" and your own web gallery with beautiful LightBox 2 effects will open in the browser instantly! No javascript,css,html coding, no image editing, just a click to get your gallery ready.

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Check out a demo of the visual light box gallery over here

Visual LightBox is available as Prototype or jQuery plugin, for Windows and Mac, it is translated by volunteers to 28 languages! its also recently been updated  to work with bloogin software joomla. Now you can create Joomla module for you Joomla website.

Online gallery creating software Visual lightbox features

Visual box has support for Flickr and photobucket and also enables you to create slideshows. it also boasts a built in ftp client  and has some  basic gallery themes  and a  auto thumbnail creating  feature. For more features visit the –>> Visual lightbox webpage

This software is free and quick and easy to produce albums and online galleries  and also easy to use for the beginner.Go grab it !!

Amazing free Collage maker

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Ever wanted to make images like these with a freeware

The Best  free Collage maker software

Vincent Chung, who has previously worked at Microsoft Research and Google, has developed an automatic photo collage maker software that can create extremely impressive collages / posters / photo mosaics in few mouse clicks. Here are some sample photo collages created using Vincent’s software.

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Called Shape Collage, this software is absolutely free, lightweight (~300kb) and it’s written in Java so it works just the same on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux machines.
Try it and see and create somthing like this too and text collages also possible

Make collages in different shapes – Collage maker video

 

Download the free collage maker from here .

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Thanks Vincent

which is not a web browser ?

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Pick which is not a web browser from the ones below ?

1. Firefox

2. Internet Explorer

2. Facebook

4.Google Chrome

Obliviously  you would not have picked “Google Chrome”  if you are a bit tech savvy ( because the answer is  facebook), but this contestant  from “who wants to be a millionaire “ in INDIA had to take an audience vote  to pick “Facebook”.

Chrome the “Google Web browser” stars in “who wants to be a millionaire”

Who wants to be a millionaire   in India  is hosted by “India’s Most popular Bollywood star Amitabh Bachan” and Amitabh Bachan  in this show  was endorsing  the “Google Chrome Browser” on national television saying it is a very nice and fast browser that he likes.

Here is the You tube Video of this show where  the question was asked , Google India must be pleased to get this free (maybe) endorsement   on national television  on one of the more popular rated television shows in India.

 

 

Google has recently also published big  print advertisements in India promoting  the Google chrome Browser. Her is one of the ads that appear in the Indian newspapers

Google chrome ads in newspapers

 

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The indian $35 tablet leaves IPAD soul- less

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"One Laptop Per Child wants to join forces to help manufacture and distribute  the Indian government’s planned US$35 tablet. In a congratulatory note to the government, OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said the world needs the $35 tablet, and he offered the country full access to OLPC hardware and software technology."

The nonprofit organization “One Laptop Per Child” wants to join forces to help develop the Indian government’s planned US$35 tablet.

OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said the world needs the $35 tablet, and he offered the country full access to OLPC hardware and software technology.

"India is so big that you risk being satisfied with your internal market. Don’t. The world needs your device and leadership. Your tablet is not an "answer" or "competitor" to OLPC’s XO laptop," Negroponte wrote.

Negroponte advised the Indian government to make the tablet as desirable as Apple’s iPad, but not to design it as a media consumption tool. The device should be an education tool.

So what is OLPC ?

 

One Laptop per Child is not about a machine, it’s about a movement; and we’d love you to be a part of it. The first and most important way you can join in is to donate one or more laptops at amazon.com/xo. But there’s lots of other ways to participate; you can host your own fundraising drive, help at a nearby pilot, or simply tell your friends about the project and help spread the word.

http://laptop.org/en/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child

Mission Statement:

To create educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged in their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.

tixati bit torrent, not napster but bloody Good

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Seems like this is 2010’s #1 bit torrent client maybe ?.

U-Torrent came to be in 3rd rank while Vuze is 2nd. Has anyone been using this? Seems pretty good but I am used to U-Torrent so will be trying this in my own time. I even have Vuze installed but rarely use it.

Tixati  – catch it at  http://www.tixati.com/

Tixati is a slick new torrent program authored by the architect of the WinMiX OpenNap program. Definitely a sophisticated and forward-thinking client, Tixati is already embracing the shift towards trackerless torrent swarming: magnet links, PEX, and DHT swarming works very well in Tixati. The throttling features and wide range of priority adjustments will make any fussy P2P user quite happy, and you’ll find that download speeds are at least as fast as Vuze and uTorrent. The bitfield graphs and ‘executive dashboard’ display is very professional, and this product easily earns itself a spot amongst the best torrent clients today. Definitely try Tixati for torrent P2P needs.

The  program truly reminds me of "napster days" . if  You used napster when it had come out you surely will love this torrent client as well . This version may also please the geeks as it gives a lot of information on the torrents and tweaking to be done.

Download Tixati v1.37
Tixati contains NO SPYWARE, NO ADS, and NO GIMMICKS.  When you download Tixati from Tixati.com, you’re getting only the Tixati software and no extra garbage.
Please select your operating system:

Windows 7 / Vista / XP
Linux with GTK2

More info at – http://www.tixati.com/discover/index.html

some of the tixati feature from thier website :

Why use Tixati?

Ultra-fast downloading algorithms
DHT, PEX, and Magnet Link support
Super-efficient peer selection and choking
Advanced bandwidth control and charting
RC4 connection encryption for added security
Advanced views of peers, pieces, files, and trackers
Detailed event logging for all transfers and individual peers