Robin Paardekam - All Comments

re: Vista Sidebar - Webcam gadget

Sam — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:13:44 GMT

Do you know when a new release will be available that includes the ability of view local (attached) webcams? You app works perfectly with the embedded webcam links you provided, but not yet with personal webcams. Kind regards and thanks !!

re: Vista Sidebar - Webcam gadget

JKR — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:04:16 GMT

Hi Robin,

I was very intrigued by your gadget when I first saw it, and decided to download it. Lately, I have been going through an obsession with downloading anything and everything.

However, after downloading your gadget, I realized I have no use for it. Before uninstalling it, I decided to compare picture quality with my default webcam, CyberLink YouCam. Although, when I attempted to activate my webcam, this popped up:

" Cannot connect to this video device (HP Webcam-101). Please select another capture device via Settings or close any application that may be using this video device and restart YouCam. "

I closed the program and returned to the Vista Sidebar and opened up the gallery. I right-clicked on Live Webcam gadget and clicked uninstall. However, in short, I was not successful. I've tried everything to uninstall this gadget, but no luck. I can no longer access my default webcam in any way, except for your gadget. I no longer want this gadget on my computer!

I am contacting you in hopes you know how to uninstall your gadget! This is very high priority. Ever since installing your gadget, my laptop has been freezing up more than usual. I am aware that this may not have anything to do with downloading Live Webcam and I am also aware that it is my fault in the first place for downloading it, but my concerns and suspicions continue to grow. Please contact me as soon as possible, as I would very much like to be shot of it.

My email address is jkr@live.ca

Do not hesitate to get a hold of me!

Thank-you.

Regards, JKR.

re: Things I like about Windows 7

Randy — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:29:31 GMT

Snipping Tool in Vista is part of the "Tablet PC Component" in "Windows-Features". You get to over "Programmes and Funktions". (at least it's called so in the German version)

They did a really good job on win7 though.

I love it to!

cheers, Randy

re: Vista Sidebar - Webcam gadget

jP — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:59:43 GMT

Really great idea. I keep it active at work and when my back is to something other than a wall so no one can get the drop on me. lol

re: Vista Sidebar - Webcam gadget

Rich — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:37:37 GMT

Hi Robin,

I was looking for a gadget like this for ages before I found this, as I wanted to display this in my sidebar: www.nuerburgring.de/.../webcam.jpg

It's just a still image that is updated every minute, but I don't seem to be able to get the gadget working properly, I have entered the URL and picture size and how often it should refresh, but it seems to only change twice a day?

Is there anything obvious I could be doing wrong? Any pointers would be great!

Thanks, Rich

re: My first Silverlight animation using Expression Blend

Juba — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:13:57 GMT

I downloaded it twice and couldn't open the zip file... it says that "the file is either damaged or in unknown format".

re: My first Silverlight animation using Expression Blend

Juba — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:02:04 GMT

Well, it downloads in Firefox but the file is just 1 Kbytes size and I get an error (this file is damaged...) message while attempting to open it.

re: My first Silverlight animation using Expression Blend

Juba — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:57:31 GMT

Your download doesn't work on IE but it does in Firefox... it returns a "0x" - very interesting!

re: Viewing Expert-Exchange comments without an account

Alundil — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:20:15 GMT

This no longer appears to work - so I guess the "experts" figured out how to force the sub in FF3. Also tried blocking the cookies as well to no avail.

re: Viewing Expert-Exchange comments without an account

Arithmus — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:44:36 GMT

2 years ahead in time, site is still wide open...

Firefox 3 these days does not even require any hacks or changes. The site is wide open. But hidden to any internet explorer user.

I guess their payment scheme does not support firefox.

Experts huh? Grin....

re: Vista Sidebar - Webcam gadget

Homme — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:33:49 GMT

I use the wireless network webcam Syslink WVC54GCA and noted that the gadget has a display delay of about 2 minutes. In the fly-out, however the delay is only seconds. Also using the syslink webinterface or directly using windows media player the delay is only seconds. Any idea's about this behaviour? I had a look at your code but could not find an immediate answer.

re: Installing Office Sharepoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008

Nizar Ben Nouba — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:00:28 GMT

comment installer et configure le MOSS 2007

re: Things I like about Windows 7

Robin Paardekam — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:21:24 GMT

Thanks for the feedback Greg. I really never noticed the Snipping Tool in Vista (I did find it now) and regarding the multi-downloads: I know about the fix but it's about time that limitation got removed by default! :) I'll be posting some more "discoveries" next week.

re: Things I like about Windows 7

Greg — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:45:00 GMT

Win7 rocks! :)

BTW, the Snipping tool actually was shipped with Vista. And there's an official tweak/Fix It from MS to change IE so it can downloaded more than 2 files and works with IE5.5 and greater. support.microsoft.com/.../282402

Later,

Greg

re: Vista Sidebar - Webcam gadget

Robin Paardekam — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:56:54 GMT

Hi Mike, if I understand your question correctly you have a machine with the webcam connected to, on which the gadget works fine, and also a laptop from which you would also like to view the webcam-source, but without taking it from your first machine? If so then you should use another piece of software, for example KABCam, which can upload images to an FTP location, or perhaps you could have a look at Windows Media Encoder which can also stream live video to a user defined port on your machine. That way you can easily connect the gadget fromn your laptop to it.

Hope this helps.