Webcam using a camera phone

With the latest cell phones technology, the camera phones are becoming a common device. And it can take quite nice photos also. By using the software from motvik (WWIGO), you can turn your camera phone to act like a webcam!

wwigo (pronounced 'vigo') stands for Webcam Wherever I Go. With wwigo, a camera phone can be used as a webcam with PC or Laptop using bluetooth as the transmission medium.

It consists of two software components:
* Mobile component that resides on phone and streams video to PC.
* PC component that receives video.

Features:
* Use Camera Phone as Wireless Webcam
* Record videos with wwigo PC application.
* Use along with skype, yahoo messenger, windows live messenger to do video chat.
* Live Upload with YouTube, grouper to share video.
* Video Quality better or comparable to off shelf webcam*
* Works with popular Bluetooth Stacks on PC
* Supported devices Nokia Series 60 v2.0 and Series 60 v3.0 phones

* Better or comparable depends on the specific phone used.

System Requirements:
* Desktop/Laptop with Windows 2000 or Windows XP SP2
* Bluetooth enabled with any one of these bluetooth Stack, IVT BlueSoleil Bluetooth Stack, Microsoft Bluetooth Stack, Widcomm Bluetooth Stack, Toshiba Bluetooth Stack
* Mobile Phone: Nokia Series 60 v2.0 or v3.0 phone.

The process only takes a few minutes.
1. Just download the software from here.
2. Install the download file to your PC.
3. Plug in your Bluetooth device and activate your cell phone Bluetooth
4. Launch a sis file (wwigoMobileApp) in the wwigo desktop menu
5. Install the application in the cell phone

That's it. You can now use your cell phone as your webcam. Enjoy!

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How to identify and avoid fake products

With the increase of high end gadgets and gears, the imitations and counterfeits products also making their way to make profits. Some of these well-crafted fake products are made such that it is very difficult to identify with the real one.

Here are some simple tips to identify and avoid it:

• Some faked gadgets are: music players, portable memory, handheld game systems, cell phone, laptop batteries, portable hard drives and many more. That means if it is small and popular, then it is ideal to fake. Signs of a fake can be identify from the logos or graphics that out of place and also the descriptions come in poor English.
• Please do some background checking about the products. Starting from the manufacturers, usually they release some information about counterfeits alerts online. Try to purchase products from the genuine resellers/distributors/dealers.
• When buying the products please ensure the holograms and verifications to confirm the genuineness of the product. Some manufacturers have an option to verify the product online using the code available on the products. Do not forget the warranty as part of the bargain. It is useful when in case of any problems happen to the products.
• Check out the actual price from the manufacturers. Beware if the dealers giving you a huge discount, because the chances are there that it could be a fake one.

Did you ever have experience with fake products? Share it!


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Web hosting and domain name

What exactly web hosting mean?

To keep it simple let's make an example. If your house is a website, web hosting is the land where your house was built on. Your website will include HTML pages, images, flash files or music files. And the web hosting company is setting space and resources in a server. Of course this server is always on and connected to the internet serving your files to visitors to your website. Good web hosting companies will also providing software to help create our website, email accounts or databases.
What about domain name?

A domain name is similar to your own name. You maybe already had seen some simple domain name such as www.msn.com, www.yahoo.com, www.google.com or www.amazon.com. And in fact we should have our own domain name!. Having our own domain name will increase our web presence and will make people easier to remember. Isn't it great to have your own .com?

Games in Excel

Remember the old days playing Pac Man, Arkanoid, Dig Dug or Tetris?
Now you can play it again using Excel. Just download the games through this site. There are bunch of arcade classics available, complete with mouse and audio support.

Don't forget to enable macros and run the macro titled "start" or similar.
Or just click the excel game file to start playing. Enjoy!

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Smorty

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There a few requirements to be an approved blogger:
* Your blog must be indexed by Google and Yahoo
* Your blog must be older than 3 months
* Your blog must not contain any violent, hate related or adult content
* Your blog must be active and have a history of minimum average 2 new posts per week
* The blog must not have duplicate posts or excessive duplicate content

The next steps are to open an account in Smorty. After that it can take up to 72 hours to have your blog approved/declined by the Smorty administrators. If your blog succesfully being approved by Smorty, you can now log into your admin account to select suitable tasks available. Or Smorty will email other ad campaign offers that you can write about.

Write your opinion article and confirmed your posts details in Smorty admin panel. Advertisers have 5 full days to review and approved your posts. As soon as your post has been approved, Smorty will transfer the money through PayPal. If you don't have a PayPal account please opens one as it is the only method of payment.

For the conclusion, Smorty is the fastest way to get paid for blogging.