Create a Cheap and Effective Monitoring System with Ubuntu Linux and webcam_server
Create a Cheap and Effective Monitoring System with Ubuntu Linux and webcam_server
Mar 8, 2011, 14 :35 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (1392 reads)
(Other stories by Jack Wallen)
"On a tight budget, but want to monitor your business, home, or maybe just your baby's room? Using Linux and the webcam_server project, you can set up a poor man's monitoring solution quickly and easily.
"Setting up a system to broadcast pics or video from a Webcam may sound like quite a challenge. Believe it or not, it's really fairly easy to get up and running. All you need is a Linux machine (In this case, Ubuntu), a Web server (Apache), a webcam, and a little tool called webcam_server. Once you are done, you can point that Webcam to your target and then view it from within a browser. If your machine housing the server is available to the outside world, you can share that link or view it from anywhere you have access to a Web browser, including your mobile device!
"Let's get this up and running."
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Canonical intelligently reinvents the scrollbar for Ubuntu
Canonical intelligently reinvents the scrollbar for Ubuntu
Mar 8, 2011, 13 :35 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (2518 reads)
(Other stories by Matthew Humphries)
[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for this link. ]
"Graphical user interfaces on the PC are a pretty standard affair when it comes to interaction. They all have windows you can open, close, resize, and move around. There's minimize, maximize, and close buttons, toolbars, scrollbars, and menu systems. We all know how to use them and rely on them for navigation everyday."With the advent of mobile devices and touchscreens some of those interaction methods have had to be rethought due to screen size limitations and a lack of keyboard or mouse input. One of those interactions is page or window scrolling using a scrollbar. You simply don't need them on a touchscreen device as it is easier and quicker to touch and drag anywhere on the display instead.
"Such a lack of scrollbars gave the design team at Canonical an idea. Could they remove the permanent scrollbars at the edge of windows in Ubuntu to free up more space for content while still allowing them to work with a cursor? The answer was a definite yes, and the re-design is now being experimented with."
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