05th Oct2011

The webcam is LIVE!

by SteveINtheUKok

Yes, the webcam has gone live today!!!

If you want to view the current image, click on Webcam from the menu above or click here

Plans are afoot to upgrade the image to HD to show more detail, give better low light response and remove noise from the image.

I also plan to add a gallery of images so there is something to view, even when conditions are poor.

Thanks to EVERYONE that donated, you have both helped make this happen and spur me on to do this and other projects, so the effects will be felt much farther than just this webcam, thank you so much.

Category : Featured, Uncategorized, Webcam
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04th Oct2011

Webcam Update 4th October

by SteveINtheUKok

The replacement camera has been found, after the couriers managed to loose it.

and it has just arrived as I was typing this update!!!!!!

I now need to set it all up and test it again, but hopefully in a matter of hours or days I will get the thing up and running and make it all public so you can actually see the thing!

As I said in an earlier post, this will probably just be one of up to four cameras that I put online, as i’d like to share my whole view with you eventually.

More news very soon!!!!

Category : Webcam
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04th Oct2011

PURE Sensia, PURE Chronos iDock, PURE Lounge iPhone App

by SteveINtheUKok


It was time to replace my internet radio and I had always had my eye on the PURE Sensia.

The radio is shaped pretty much like a rugby ball, it has some weight and sits on a plastic base although it has a fitting to allow it to sit atop a tripod or some other camera style base if needs be. It has a large colour touchscreen, a touch sensitive on/off button on top and two side firing speakers.

PURE has been around for some time now, I remember my first foray into the world of digital radio was with a PURE box for my hi-fi, things have moved on since then and PURE often come up with some truly innovative and stylish products.

The radio itself will receive DAB (Digital radio broadcasts) and DAB+ (which links to pictures and ads over the internet), Standard FM and internet radio via the PURE Lounge service.

The radio is very easy to setup, it connects to your home network via Wi-Fi although an ethernet adaptor is now available if a wired connection is preferred. Then you get a number from the PURE Lounge and pop that into the radio and it syncs with your PURE Lounge account. I also have a PURE Chronon iDock in the bedroom and pop my iPhone into the dock and use the PURE Lounge software for iPhone to listen to internet radio on that device. As both sync with the same PURE Lounge account I have only had to setup and manage my internet radio station favourites and custom stations in one place, it syncs to both or any number of PURE devices.
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Category : Featured, Product Reviews
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22nd Sep2011

Updated Sep 22nd 2011

by SteveINtheUKok

Things are still not settled. I am having some issues with the phone company after they keep giving me numbers that are getting lots of marketing calls and calls from debt collectors for past owners of these numbers. I am now on my third phone number but the problem is the same with this one. So my complaint has been escalated. Who ever said life was easy?!

Internet, well every time the number is changed the internet dies a death for a couple of days until all the various systems are in sync again, so that is not yet reliable enough to run the camera on.

I have also had some issues with the placement of the camera that I hope still to overcome, although I will be honest and say that the issues may stop the project all together, although I hope not. (If I have to abandon the project, anyone that donated will get a full refund, but I think it will still go ahead, so dont panic yet!)

We are almost two months from the date I expected to have the camera up and running, which is very annoying for me but for those that helped me out, it must be even more frustrating and for that I do apologise, but as you maybe can see, things are out of my control.

The good news is that things are coming together and I expect to finalise this in the next few weeks, so not much longer and thank you for bearing with me.

I will update you again soon, hopefully with good news!

Thanks again

SteveINtheUKok

Category : Webcam
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23rd Aug2011

Updated Aug 23rd 2011

by SteveINtheUKok

When is an appointment, not an appointment?

When its an unconfirmed appointment…. SCREECHING OF CAR TYRES!!!

Hold up, isn’t an unconfirmed appointment, just a date on the calendar? And then it isn’t an appointment at all, its just a date?

Well my telephone company have just moved my install date back ANOTHER two weeks, f****ers!

Just got an email this morning to tell me, no call, no letter, just an email, out of the blue.

I had to call up to get the “unconfirmed appointment” story.

Thankfully I copied to a PDF the seemingly confirmed date on their system just the other day, so I have proof to back me up.

I will be taking this one all the way and feel I am being taken for a ride so I want some kind of financial recompense.

I not have to try and get all the people I had arranged to be here to give them access to the equipment they require again. NIGHTMARE!!!

I have complained and they are trying to get yet another, hopefully confirmed, date sometimes sooner but what a flurking nightmare!

Thank you British Telecom what a bunch of idiots.

AND if I call them up, go through the auto-bot (or maybe its a Decepticon! LOL) menu system on the phone you hit a dead end and have to choose a department you don’t want, who then has to transfer you to the one you do want, so that means telling the WHOLE story twice! aaaaaaaaarrrrggghhh!!!!!!!

This will be nearly six weeks without a phone or internet service.

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