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Where to Watch New Year’s Eve Celebrations From Around the World

2024-12-202024-12-20 Danie
The image shows a vibrant fireworks display over a canal in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In the foreground, there are houseboats and the calm waters of the canal reflecting the colorful lights of the fireworks. The background is filled with the stunning spectacle of fireworks exploding in the night sky, with the city's buildings and trees lining the canal visible amidst the bursts of light. The city lights illuminate the buildings along the canal, creating a warm, inviting atmosphere against the dark night sky.

Links to live streams for various cities around the world. Why celebrate once when you can celebrate on the hour all day long! Not all are pointing directly at the celebrations though, e.g. Cape Town’s […]

Blognewyear, technology, webcam

If your webcam didn’t come with customization software, you can use OBS to reframe it

2024-12-062024-12-06 Danie
The image shows a close-up view of a small, square webcam attached to the top of a computer monitor. The webcam is white with a black circular lens. The monitor displays a blurry image in the background; it seems to be an abstract landscape of orange and brown hues, possibly a digital painting or a photograph of a desert-like environment. The foreground is dominated by the webcam and the top edge of the monitor, which is dark gray or black.

OBS is free and open source software that will provide various filters and effects you can apply to an input such as a webcam. It will generate an output stream which any app will think […]

Blogopensource, technology, webcam

Deep-Live-Cam goes viral, allowing anyone to become a digital doppelgangerDeep-Live-Cam goes viral, allowing anyone to become a digital doppelganger

2024-08-142024-08-14 Danie
A webcam view of a man wearing a blue t-shirt, sitting in a room with an open door behind him and a bookcase with books. To the right stands a green cactus type plant. The man's face looks like JD Vance.

Over the past few days, a software package called Deep-Live-Cam has been going viral on social media because it can take the face of a person extracted from a single photo and apply it to […]

Blogdeepfakes, technology, webcam

Use DroidCam to turn your Android phone into a wireless webcam for Linux or Windows PC’s and laptops

2024-06-182024-06-18 Danie
Two windows are shown open - one on the left is titled DroidCam Client and shows a preview of some flowers standing in a glass of water, with some icons at the bottom to increase/decrease zoom, brightness, autofocus, and switching perspective and rotating the image. The rightmost window is titled Skype Options and shows the video settings selected, with the source name as DroidCam Source 1, and the same preview image is shown of the flowers in a glass of water.

This is probably most useful on desktop computers that have no webcam, but there is also an OBS Studio plugin, so an Android phone could also act as a secondary webcam when needed on those […]

Blogandroid, technology, webcam

Assistive Tech: Blink your eyes in Morse code to type using a webcam

2022-03-182022-03-18 Danie
Morse keyboard

Most of us use our hands to interface with computers, but the human body is capable of many types of input other than that of fingers and feet. But what about people who can’t use […]

Blog#morsecode, assistivetechnology, technology, webcam
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