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My wife and I’ve been looking for a good WIFI webcam for a long time already. Most of the available webcam in the market are either needs to be connected to a PC or on a hub. These  are what you call IP cams.

Although there are existing Wifi webcams already in the past 4 years with built-in webserver, they are either bulky or the video rate is slow.

Thanks to technology companies that keeps on improving this small but important gadgets, the latest Wi-Fi video cameras have come a long way.

The latest Wifi webcam from model WIFI-CA100  is exactly the webcam  that my wife and I planning to buy. It has the all features that we are looking for.  It lets you monitor your home, kids, business establishments, or anywhere requiring remote video transmission and supervision.

MODEL: WIFI-CA100

This Wifi webcam can directly access the Internet unlike standard “webcams” that require an attached PC.

Great Features Include:

• It has a PAN rotation of 270 degrees and can be tilted up to 120 degrees.
• Up to a maximum of 10 users can view the webcam at the same time.
• Has infrared LEDs for better  night view.
• Automatically adjust the video rate according to the network bandwidth.
• Has support for motion detection.
• Bi-directional talking and audio supervision.
• Auto reconnect if there’s a failure on the connection.

Enjoy this latest and impressive Wifi webcam.

Thew new iPod shoots video, a larger screen, and FM radio.

Want to post video on Facebook or MobileMe? Thew built-in video can record  either in portrait or landscape mode – perfect for sharing to any social network communities.The video camera in iPod nano lets you shoot video – with video effects.It lets you record fun wherever you are. Upload and share it with friends on the Internet with a single click.

This iPod is amazing, the video quality is really surprising.

The superb music player has now a built-in mic too. All the surroundings audio can be recorded together with the video.

Why a video camera for the nano? “iPod nano is the world’s most popular music player with over 100 million sold,” said Jobs, Apple’s CEO.”The company was inspired by the popularity of pocket flash memory-based video cameras like those from Flip and Kodak,”Job said.

Special Effects Feature

Apple throws in fifteen special effects which include:

• Thermal
• Mirror
• XRay
• Motion Blur
• Sepia
• Cyborg
• Film Grain
• Black and White,
• Security Cam
• Bulge
• Kaleido
• Light Tunnel
• Dent
• Stretch
• Twirl

Another new addition to the nano 5G  is an FM radio. Read the rest of this entry »

Asus, one of the world’s biggest consumer electronics businesses, confirmed last week that it is planning to launch ebook by the end of this year.

Asus ebook will about to start a new revolutionize way on how an ebook reader should be. Not only it will be the cheapest digital reader to be sold in the market but Asus claims its new ebook reader will be smarter and more versatile that any current available reader in the market today.

According to Jerry Shen, the company’s president, they plan to unveil the device before the end of the year -with different models.

This futuristic ebook reader has a hinged spine, like a printed book. It’s like you are just reading a normal book, using the touchscreen to turn on the pages. It has also a feature to browse the web while seeing the current text on screen.

Asus screens boast a full color unlike the current ebook readers that have monochrome screens only.

And  lastly, you can also make a cheap phone calls over the internet using this device  because it has a “speaker, a webcam and a mic for Skype”.

Facebook mobile users is now at 65 million.  This is almost one-third of the total population of Facebook which is around 200 million already.

The recent growth is due to the mobile service which Facebook started in 2006. Facebook’s mobile web site m.facebook.com works on any mobile browser. It has  x.facebook.com also which is designed specifically for touch screen phones like Android, Palm, iPhone and Nokia.

Facebook introduced a new feature called ‘Facebook Connect’. It is a system wherein a developer can integrate with Facebook for their own services. This will also provide the users a single log-ins for all Facebook services.

Mobile access is becoming increasingly important for Facebook in order to expand globally. Currently, the best mobile interfaces are found on iPhone and Blackberry. Facebook recently launch Facebook for iPhone 3.0 and people have been very pleased with the new features.

Nokia is also gearing on the same direction.  Nokia just announced a new handset, the N900, which uses a Linux-based operating system called “Maemo.”  This new gadget will have a Facebook application that allows users to update their location with their status.