There are people who claim they can live without the technology and rekon that it does not always make their life easier.
At the same time, they are the first ones aware of the latest gizmo when they don't already own it.
For them, a gadget that can't be either tweaked or hacked is of limited interest.
These people often feel like they are not understood by the rest of the mankind in general, ...and by their wife in particular.
If you recognize yourself in this description, and your Geek Quotient is worryingly high ...
...this site is for you!
So welcome and make yourself comfortable!
all references on this site are based on European standards (metric, € currency, 220v,...)
11 comments:
Hello Bubbah,
Came across your page while researching IP cams. Have a troublesome GP260 and it gives a lot of grief with the Active X control. Then I see you are living in Ennis and are interested in X10... I lived only 6 miles from ennis and have a x10 automation system with homeseer.
Anyways based on your info, I brought a Forscam (was a bit worried about the name!) from a trusted ebay seller (surezan13) for 64e. Reading about the clones, I think he may a pulled a fast one.
Keep up the good work
Regards
Liam
Cheer Liam. That ip cam is the gadget I had most craic with.
I wish I could say the same for X10...
For all your X10 woes you need a XTB11 from Jeff Volps. I got one from him and it amps the X10 signal to 6v at zero crossing. This will overcome any niose problems.
I see you are in to FSX as well, scary now!!! did you get the latest EINN scenery from Eirsim, its brillant.
That scenery is out finaly ? I kind of lost track of it. My PC is getting way too old for enjoying FSX properly. It's about time I buy a new one soon.
hey how do you put the lbels in the menu accross the top of the page like that?
@theinterbits
Just add an HTML/Javascript page element from the Blogger page designer with a code like this:
[div]
[li][a href="http://www.gadgetvictims.com/2009/07/call-to-all-gadget-victims.html"]INTRODUCTION[/a][/li]
[li][a href="http://www.gadgetvictims.com/search/label/ip%20camera"]IP CAMERAS[/a][/li]
...and so on...
oh yeah. thats a great idea. thanks, i might try it on my blog
Dear Bubbah, I had difficulties in finding an email address, even after coming across your real name. I wanted to direct your attention towards the new Brookstone toy, the AC13 Rover. It seems to be very related to the Foscam stuff: http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f44/brookstone-rover-app-81730/#post409080 Maybe it's interesting enough to take a look at it? Thanks! Anne
Hello Anne, I came across this rover very recently and it's no my wish list. Didn't realize it used the same CGI set as Foscam. Thanks and Happy New Year.
Hello Bubbah,
Enjoy reading your site; I wish I had as good an understanding of these cameras as you but it's all I can do to muddle through. I have a Foscam F18918W set up and it gives me great pleasure boring people with live action scenes of my cat from my iPhone. What I can't figure out is why when I have an IE window running at work on my work station of my cam, if alarm is enabled etc., it will record the motion detected. There is no 3rd party software running. Dounloads the video to my computer's hard drive. If I run the same at home or anywhere else, nothing records (or I can't find it). How can I control this without 3rd party software?
Thanks for the help
Hi Rob,
This annoying 'feature' is part of the ActiveX interface typically used from IE. When you don't see this, you probably use another browser like Firefox or Chrome (and the Push server UI).
At best, the latest firmware will eliminate the constant pop-up of the target folder, but to eliminate the beeping and recording, you have to disable the Motion Alarm.
So your realistic options are:
- Don't use IE (always a good decision anyway)
- use a 3rd party monitoring application
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