I've been looking for an improved software solution over what I've had with WebCamXP. WebCamXP worked pretty well for viewing my USB and conventional cameras remotely, but had some issues with IP cameras and did not do much as far as archiving goes. It's been running rather unstable lately, and it's IP camera functionality was too aggressive and caused crashes on both itself and the cameras.

Since I'm moving to a dedicated camera server I took the advice of a lot of folks over at cocoontech and switched to Active Webcam Deluxe.

Active Webcam has outstanding support for both my IP cameras and my wireless "teddy cam" that feeds in via an RCA-to-USB video adapter. It archives footage both locally and remotely and has a rather efficient interface. It's very resource intensive, but that shouldn't be an issue since the PC running it (a refurbished IBM business-class desktop I got from geeks.com for a tad over $200) will only be running Active Webcam and nothing else.

After a few days of testing, the software appears to be working great and doing everything I've expected of it.

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I've been using Dyndns.org for a while now, switching to it from no-ip.com due to it being supported by many routers, cameras etc (no need to run an update program on your PC).

Well, I've been letting my router handle it for quite a while now. Today, just for giggles, I added my hostname, username and password to a couple of my IP cameras for "redundanc

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I've been trying to figure out how to determine the beats per minute for music I play on my iPod. I don't have the abundance of time available to sit and count out every beat and manually edit each song, so I needed some software to do it.

I found BeaTunes and gave it a try.

It will analyze and determine the BPM for any song that can be played in QuickTime (no copy protected stuf

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