Webcams and Mac OS X
Posted April 27th, 2003 @ 07:22pm by Erik J. Barzeski
In doing some research, Jamie found this webcam of Victoria BC, Canada. Quite by accident I discovered that by clicking the webcam image you get a popup window. The "Server Info" button in that popup reveals:
Server: /24.65.184.121:80
Administrator: Pullman
Administrator e-mail:
OS Info: Mac OS X, 10.2.5, ppc
Java Info: Apple Computer, Inc., V 1.4.1_01
Server: English, United States 10.02.2000 - 16:51:06
I was looking for a webcam and I found Mac OS X. Nice. 🙂
Update: It's not the Server OS as it led me to believe, it's the user's. D'oh!
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Posted 27 Apr 2003 at 9:09pm #
I'm looking for a way to USE a Webcam in OS X. 🙂
Posted 27 Apr 2003 at 9:10pm #
Have you looked at EvoCam?
Posted 27 Apr 2003 at 9:17pm #
Its not reporting 10.2.5 anymore - it is now reporting my OS, which is different currently... Must be the client OS
Posted 27 Apr 2003 at 9:39pm #
Pretty lamely titled button then. 😛
Posted 28 Apr 2003 at 9:39am #
Chris, webcams (USB or Firewire) in Mac OS X are pretty simple: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2002081812594192
The title of this hint is sorta odd given that it lets use webcams pretty much everywhere in the OS (not just the terminal...)
Posted 29 Apr 2003 at 12:35am #
I'm waiting for a free driver for my Logitech Quickcam.. Then I could do live 24-hour broadcasts of my oh-so-interesting java-buzzin' life. 😀
Posted 01 May 2003 at 12:13am #
I use an iBot with evocam and it works great. I actually grab still shots during a scheduled part of the day and they get saved to my idisk account. the images then get shown on my regular web site. It's a cool thing. The quality is better than I expected and it works great in 10.2