Great Web Camera

Advantages: Price, quality of picture, software bundle, ease of use
Disadvantages: slight delay when using conferencing

...This camera from 3Com couldn't be simpler to use. It plugs directly into your USB Port and comes with great software. Software included is webcam32, Picture Works Live, 3com Homeconnect Vid Cam, viewer, and great help files. The camera allows you to take still digital images and record live video. Picture quality is excellent and when using the webcam for video e-mail or conferencing the delay in picture is minimal. The camera can be focussed really close up so is excellent for those macro shots. It has self adjusting 'white light' features and sets itself up for the prevailing light conditions. An excellent and affordable web camera...

jonwhite 09.09.2000 · Read review
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Getting Your Kid Into Digital Cameras

Advantages: Features Like Any Regular Digital Camera
Disadvantages: 16 MB Internal Memory and No Zoom Capabilities

.... Prepare for your young ones to take candid shots of you, then "improve" them by warping the pictures in silly ways or adding funny frames. The camera can store up to 120 photos or 5 minutes of video. This resilient camera is sturdy enough to handle the tumbles that it will inevitably face. Designed specifically for children ages 3-6, the VTech KidiZoom Digital Camera has large buttons that are easy to manage. It also has two large grips for small hands, and a dual viewfinder. Kids can connect the camera to their television or PC and show off their work to friends and family. They can add special effects to photos and videos. Another popular feature are the games that come with the camera. Three games geared toward preschoolers are included with the VTech KidiZoom Digital Camera. The camera also comes with a set of headphones that can be...

bennyong 21.12.2008 · Read review
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Labtec WebCam Your PC's 'eye'

Advantages: Small and affordable,simple to install.
Disadvantages: Bit tricky to position

...The Labtec Webcam is small and very light wieght, however it does its job well, I have had a prob or two getting it to sit still in the right position,this can be resolved easily enough using some tack/putty to hold it in place, due to its shape it is a little top heavey...mabe a suction pad could have been in-built to the base of it? For its price approx £19.00, it does all you could ask of it, it comes with a CD rom which contains the downloadable driver *so dont lose it* ,and you can create video clips as well using it for the normal eyeball chats.It has also been useful for taking photos that can be downloaded as profile pictures on web sites, and snapping the kids near the monitor screen to send to grandma! The focusing leaves just a little to be desired, and you do need the lighting to be right, I have found myself looking...

Caberet-Haze 10.02.2004 · Read review
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Who says the camera never lies

Advantages: Small, easy to use
Disadvantages: Price

...Philips Vesta PCVC680K web camera A high tech, plug and play web camera, which is compact and easy to use (Via a USB Universal Serial Bus socket). With a built in microphone, this camera sells for about £100, and is in the higher end of the market. It is available from most good computer peripheral stockists. The camera and software are compatible for computers with a processor speed of 166 mhz and above. You are required to have at least 16 mb of ram and 10mb of free hard drive space to install and use the software that is supplied with the camera. Playback capabilities are an advantage as the quality built in microphone affords you the ability to record your own audio tracks. Designed to operate on Windows 98 and above,(Sorry ‘95 users) the camera and software are easy to install and use. The software is on a CD...

headgardener 13.02.2001 · Read review
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WEBS (2003)

Advantages: Some good actors and some decent kicking actions.
Disadvantages: The list goes on - Story line, Monsters, Consistency, Logic.....

...said some meaningful thoughts (cheesy as heck though); which was along the line of 'Just imagine all the history that has gone on in this building, and it is all going to be destroyed'. I should just gave up on the film at that point but I was hoping this B-movie can prove why it still exist on the shelves. They discovered a bolted door and curiosity has got the better of them, as they managed to open it. The room was fill with electrical machines, and being nosy electricians meant they have to fidget buttons. Fidgeting buttons lead them to open a portal to the parallel universe (Ooohhh). Arguments and boisterous pushing and shoving caused Dean and Jones to fall into the portal, to a nice modernised Chicago?.with webs! It is night-time in the New Chicago, without anyone in sight. The fact that it is so clean with webs would make...

Moogiekupo 06.03.2006 · Read review
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Review of Webs (DVD)

* Charlotte's Web *

Advantages: Funny , Good Family Film
Disadvantages: Drags On In Some Places , Sad

...Charlotte's Web is an American family film released in the United Kingom on February 9th 2007. It is based on the book Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. The film was directed by Gary Winwick and stars Dakota Fanning. Running time of the movie is ninety seven minutes. The story is based on the life of a young pig named Wilbut. When little girl , Fern's dad plans on killing the piglet because he is the smallest piglet in the litter , Fern steps in , in order to try and save the life of the little pig ; promising to care for him herself. Fern then keeps little Wilbut as a pet ; allowing him in the house. When the piglet is too pig to keep as a pet , Fern's parents insist that he has to go ; they then come up with the idea of Wilbut going to live in Fern's uncles barn on the farm next door. Here he meets the rest of the farm animals...

xdonzx 26.10.2008 · Read review
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A tangled web!

Advantages: great read, good suspense
Disadvantages: none

...I have been reading books by the author Joy Fielding for as long as I can remember. Her books can best be described as psychological thrillers and in most cases I have been on the edge of my seat from the moments I have picked the books up. 'Charley's Web' had a slightly different feel to it though and although I enjoyed the book very much I did not really experience the usual tension until towards the very end. The book is about a character called Charley Webb who is a somewhat provocative journalist for a Florida newspaper. She writes a weekly column that often provokes and shocks her readers which consequently leads to a lot of interesting emails and letters. Most are complaints but alongside all her regular post, she receives a letter from Jill Rohmer, a convicted child killer awaiting execution on Death Row. She wants Charley to...

kingfisher111 12.09.2009 · Read review
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You can use it as a Web Cam on your PC too!

Advantages: No joystick needed
Disadvantages: Surprisingly hard work to play

...of curiosity, I decided to try the web cam in one of my USB port on the PC - it correctly identified the camera but was unable to find an appropriate driver - doubtless someone will provide a hack over time. (***they have now - see the top of my article***) If I were to describe this in three words they would be; 'Different' 'Amusing' and 'Innovative' I expect this will become an instant classic, and be the summer's 'must have' accessory. The kids will love it, and so will the grown ups, especially if you distribure a couple of dry sherries before! I'm only curious to see what the second generation of games will be!...

dobieg 26.07.2003 (29.05.2004) · Read review
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A web of friendship and love

Advantages: An endearing, wonderful film with a great message
Disadvantages: It made me cry :-(

...I love animals; I carried out my year 10 work experience in a veterinary surgery, but decided it wasn't for me when the staff tried to comfort me after a puppy died...I cried for over an hour. I am one of those weird people who would much rather give my money to an animal charity than a human charity. I trust animals more than I trust more humans. I know that they will not tell my secrets to others, tell me I am getting fat or that I can't do this or that properly. In a way I could be compared a lot to Fern in the film. When I saw this film advertised in the cinema I knew it was going to be a sad one. As a child at school we did a project on E.B White's book, Charlotte's Web. We made clay animals and the teacher read a chapter each day. As a child it was one of my favourite books and I was shocked and disappointed when my partner...

leofluffy69 02.12.2007 · Read review
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An ideal webcam for beginners

Advantages: cheap, easy to install & set-up
Disadvantages: focus quality

...difficult or highly amusing to your chat buddy on what he/she can actually see of you. Aside to the live video streaming you can also take snapshots and save them as picture files, make short video clips (ideal for Granny in Aus at Xmas) and lots of other fun stuff should your kids want to get creative. I would recommend this webcam for the beginner as it?s definitely not top of the range, is limited in what it can do but for £11.99 if you?re only going to use it on the odd occasion you can?t complain and it will perform how you want it to, but for the pro who isn?t camera shy, then opt for something a little more advanced that offer maximum features as it will be worth paying the extra for. When I originally purchased my web cam I had the old-style monitor and so it sat quite happily up there and didn?t budge, but having upgraded my pc...

chocliteclair 14.07.2007 · Read review
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