TrustedReviews have reviewed the Y-CAM White & Black IP Cameras and here’s their conclusion.

Just as with the Y-Cam White, the Y-CAM Black is a very well built, fully featured IP camera that will be quite sufficient for the small business or individual. The added bonus of night vision also makes it very versatile and for the price, it’s a great buy. Are you in the market for a relatively affordable IP camera packed to the brim with features?

Guess either white or black versions of the Y-CAM will be able to do this job for under the $400 mark.

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Pocket PC Thoughts have received a review unit of the iPAQ 100 Series Classic Handheld, and hence begins the customary unboxing experience. This is but an entry level device from HP, but still, anything new is always worth ripping the box open. OK, maybe not in such a violent manner, but it is still interesting to see how a product is packaged. Sounds as though the HP iPAQ 100 has everything it needs to get it up and running out of the box, so we’re waiting with bated breath for the review.

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Are you European? Are you worried about not being able to get your hands on The Orange Box until 2008? If so, then fear not - VideoGamer.com have received word from Valve that the game will indeed be in stores in December. An exact date has yet to be given, but it will definitely be out this year

There have been rumours and plenty of speculation that the bundle of five games (Half Life 2, Half Life 2: Episode One, Half Life 2: Episode 2, Team Fortress 2 and, most importantly, Portal) wouldn’t be out in Europe-land until January at the earliest seeing as retailers have continued to push the date back for a number of months now. These fears can now, finally, be put to rest.

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Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Deals, 20th Century Fox, DIY/Filmmaking, Newsstand

I have a favor to ask of Ridley Scott: please, sir, can you stop announcing movie projects until you’re in the middle of shooting Monopoly? That’s the only one I really want to see you committed to right now. So, just finish up with Body of Lies, then begin production on Monopoly, and then you may announce other gigs, including this new project, Stones, which The Hollywood Reporter now tells us you’re set to direct. Sure, the film sounds really interesting — its a supernatural thriller that deals with ancient landmarks like Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids — but how can you be thinking about mystical places when you need to be concentrating on Rich Uncle Pennybags and how you might integrate the thimble and scotty dog into your board game adaptation.

Yes, the American Gangster director has too many films in the pipeline. And Monopoly isn’t even one of the projects listed on the IMDb, which shows only the Robin Hood-based Nottingham and the Cormac McCarthy adaptation Blood Merdian as being lined up after Body of Lies. Other Scott-attached projects we’ve written about in the past include Child 44 and Gladiator 2, but those were both a long time ago. We know Scott has confirmed involvement in Monopoly, so where’s the greenlight? Doesn’t Hollywood know how huge this thing will be? Oh well, I guess we can take a little peak at what this Stones thing is all about. Scripted by Matthew Cirulnick (Paid in Full), the movie features the destruction of ancient religious structures throughout the world and the revelation that they are all tied together, with Stonehenge being the central site, and that they all retain supernatural powers meant for a specific purpose.

The Hollywood Reporter confirms that following Body of Lies, Scott will head straight into Nottingham, while Stones will have to await the end of the Writers Guild strike, because Cirulnick has not finished writing it. The trade also mentions another mythical project written by Cirulnick titled Elysium, which deals with Greek mythology, and going by the title, I presume it focuses on the afterlife.

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If you’ve ever wondered just how much functionality could be crammed into a single PC Card, it seems that Onda and Siano are out to give you an answer. Deemed the “world’s first combined DVB-H / HSDPA card” for Italy’s TIM, the DT501HS enables users to suck down mobile TV and internet content in one fell swoop, but we’ve no idea if / when this thing will be made available on any other carrier(s). Notably, this device relies on Siano’s wee PCB-mounted SMS8021 antenna, which means that you won’t find any external protrusions here. As for pricing, we weren’t able to locate any hard figures, but those parked in Italy should be able to snap one up anytime now in TIM stores.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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When you think about Facebook applications, the first thing that comes to mind might be those obnoxious Vampire and Zombie applications where friends keep “biting you.” Or maybe it’s the Movie Compatibility Quiz, which asks you about an awful lot of Adam Sandler films and nothing about the films you might actually like.

Now, those sorts of apps could waste a lot of time when you’re at work, and could even get you fired.

What you may not know is that some Facebook widgets are actually useful and might even make you more productive at the office (or while on a business trip). In fact, an increasing number of business users are taking advantage of these productivity programs to stay in contact with coworkers and associates, as well as share information, and collaborate. CIO Magazine has trolled through the unorganized mess that is the Facebook application directory and found its Five Favorite Facebook Widgets for Business Users (widgets is the term people use for these applications you can add to your Facebook page).

CIO magazine’s favorites include the Sticky Notes application, which mimics pinning a Post-It to your page. That rather obious app may seem short on usefulness — and long on desktop clutteriness — but others seem like real productivity-machines. Wikimono, for example, allows you to collaborate with other Facebook users on a Wiki (a user-generated online encyclopedia) that can even contain embedded video or images.

Our favorite app on the list is the My LinkedIn Profile widget, which is simply a badge that takes you from Facebook, to the eponymous professional networking site. CIO mag thinks Facebook apps can be useful… but not useful enough to keep it from leading you away from the site loaded with drunken college girls as quickly as possible.

From CIO

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Filed under: Google (GOOG), Employees, Rich in America

When Bonnie Brown signed on to provide services as a masseuse to the staff at Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)’s home office back in 1999, I wonder how she felt about receiving stock options as part of her compensation. At the time, the company was a 40-person Silicon Valley start-up, one of thousands snatching up venture capital, the vast majority of which went out with a whimper by the time of the tech crash.

Bonnie evidently stuck with it, though, and as a result is now a multi-millionaire. According to The New York Times, she has established her own charitable foundation and spends her time traveling and finding good uses for her money.

The Times reports that over a thousand people own over $5 million each of Google shares and options, and current and former employees hold options of over $2 billion. While new employees continue to gain stock options, the days of exponential growth such as Brown had experienced have no doubt passed, which makes me wonder if this might not drive the best and brightest to look for work with companies at an earlier stage in their development cycle. Google might be a little concerned about attracting too many people who are simply looking for a safe, dependable place to work. Those people are not the innovators that it thrives on.

Kudos to Brown, who deserves to benefit from her willingness to take risk. I, for one, like to see money ending up in the hands of the kneady. (Sorry!)

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We love illusions, things sometimes referred to as magic. Regrettably, true magic does not exist in this dimension (except for in the eyes of our innocent youth … oh, the fools), but Sony and the PS3 have a few tricks up their sleeve to keep us imagining magic does indeed exist. The following are some obvious tricks worth mentioning that your PS3 can, in fact, do. Remember, some people might not have known these things.

1. Play PS3 games from any country
2. Reset your video mode by continuing to press the power button on the console when turning it on (if you have an HDMI issue, this is always a good way to re-establish a poor handshake).
3. Tap the PS button to see your battery charge remaining (duh).
4. Google PS3 Game Saves, save some data onto a USB, then copy it into your save data folder. Voila, you magically beat a game you don’t even own!
5. Six-person video/phone chat … thanks PS Eye!
6. Multiple page mode in the browser (choose to open a new window in the browser, then use L3 to toggle between pages).
7. Easily upgradeable hard drives.
8. Share your PS Store downloads on up to five other PS3’s!
9. Force a PS3 to show your files … just stick stuff in folders called, verbatim, “VIDEO” or “PICTURE” — if that doesn’t work, hit triangle and choose “Display All”. Though, if you’re rockin’ on Tversity, this isn’t really necessary.
10. Hand-in-hand with #9, you can change your album art for copied CDs using this method.

Fairly obvious? Sure. Even so, these are the types of simple things that you’ll forget to explain to the less techno-savvy when showing off your PS3. They’re simple, but they can be important when trying to prove how awesome the machine is.
[via Digg]

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AlcoHAWK has come up with a redesign of its personal-use alcohol breath test for improved accuracy and ease-of-use. Known as the AlcoHAWK PRO, you get foolproof FlowCheck Technology that ensures sufficient air sample is tested while alerting you to abnormal sensor conditions.

To see if you’ve had enough, simply blow into the mouthpiece for five seconds; the advanced semiconductor oxide sensor delivers an accurate digital LED read-out (0.00 to 0.40% BAC) in three seconds. Meets rigorous NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) specifications. Get about 300 tests on a 9V battery (included).

Sounds like the perfect gadget to have with this upcoming holiday season that will involve a whole lot of booze and binging. The AlcoHAWK PRO retails for $139.95.

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