Western Daily Press: Webcam beams glorious views around the world
Potential visitors to the Westcountry are getting a taste of the region's delights thanks to a well-placed webcam. Stunning images taken from the Lizard are being beamed across the globe.The Housel Bay Hotel claims to have Britain's most southerly mainland web-cam. Alfred Mesropians, who together with his wife, Iona, runs the 111-year-old hotel, said: "The webcam has only been up and running for a couple of weeks, but already we've had some...
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Webcams offer portal to locales near and far
The webcam was an icon of the dot- com era. Online-camera users, most notably Jennifer Ringley and her Jennicam, put themselves on the Internet 24/7, visible to all.But Web surfers eventually grew tired of watching people eat, sleep and use the computer, and Jenni and her peers slowly started logging off. They've been replaced by a generation of cams that are less, "Look, Ma, I'm on the Internet," and more useful, as in, "Look,...
Dornoch webcam firm joins hunt for TV crew
Dornoch webcam firm joins hunt for TV crew Karen Allan A WEBCAM firm has been contacted by a Middle East television company asking it to scan Dornoch High Street for one of its crews which has apparently gone missing, en route to Scotland. Camdista, based in Ayrshire, received an e-mail from the television company with the unusual request, because the crew had not reported home for three days. The webcam firm could not help for about 12 hours,...
I spy with my little webcam... - DIGITAL IMAGING
WEBCAMS that attach to a PC and allow videoconferencing over the net or remote monitoring via a website are now so commonplace, consumers consider them ``pick up'' items along with keyboards and mice, according to webcam manufacturers. ``The webcam used to be a geeky toy, something a computer literate person would research heavily before buying,'' says Nick Angelucci, marketing manager at Creative Labs, manufacturers of the popular Webcam range of...