Quandir Solutions announces the release of Daydreamer 2.1, a new version of the company’s web cam capture utility software that enables web cam users to take pictures of current conditions at specific locations and then post them to the web at regular intervals.
“Daydreamer 2.1 expands on the picture-saving feature introduced in Daydreamer 2.0 by allowing users to save all downloaded pictures, not only the latest,” says Don Carlile, founder and president of Quandir Solutions, pointing out that while someone can use a web browser to view pictures, it’s a nuisance to keep refreshing them. “Version 2.1 also fixes several bugs, avoiding corrupted movies and improving handling of URLs that have non-standard characters.”
The Daydreamer software program is perfect for anyone that likes to keep track of the weather or freeway conditions, or enjoys satellite pictures. “Daydreamer can display the many web cam pictures to which URLs point and update them as often as need be, and Daydreamer can even handle several pictures at once,” explains Carlile. Additionally, Daydreamer can make time-lapse movies of the URL picture, adding a new frame to a movie each time the picture is refreshed and Daydreamer documents can be set to save each picture as it is downloaded, which lets users have a changing desktop or screensaver that reflects the current state of a web cam.
Daydreamer is AppleScriptable, which adds to its versatility. With sample scripts provided with the distribution, users can view slide shows of picture folders on their computer, make those slide shows into QuickTime movies, or receive an alert email when a picture changes. Daydreamer 2.1 requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later, and retails for $20 US. The upgrade is free for previously registered versions.
More details about Daydreamer 2.1 are available at http://www.quandir.com/Daydreamer.html
At last… I can see what my cats are doing when I’m not home.
MacDailyNews is now unreadable
What the hell was wrong with the old “fit to monitor” format? This is pathetic! I’m using a 23″ Cinema Display and I keep my browser window open to nearly full width. Now there’s tons of wasted space.
This site now feels needlessle cramped and claustrophobic. Bad, bad design decision.
I knew there was a better way to watch paint dry.
(What the cats are doing: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.)
Stop whining about the new redesign and having empty space because you have a 21″ + monitor.
Most of the people don’t even go as high as 19″, needless to say a resolution bigger than 1024×768
MW: Ideas
Stop complaining and post better ideas
TMF, what’s wrong with you?
Since when did you not want to watch some pussy down a web cam!!!!
BigmacX,
I have a 17″ display. I’m looking at a web page with nearly 5 inches of white on the sides, and this little bitty area of tiny text sandwiched in between.
Doesn’t make one bit of sense to me…
Touché.
I have this little button in the menu portion of my browser that allows me to increas the isze of the font displayed. It is really cool. “Why?”, you may ask (or not)… Well, it allows me to make what I am reading here a bit more to my liking AND it allows me ot feel as though all of this space on 30″ monitor i not being wasted. Heaven (or where-eva) forbid we should have wasted space in a digital environment! I remember all the biotching that took place when we jumped from Sys 9 to OS X. Most (not all) have gotten over it.
THE only thing you can count on is change. Count on it.
and count on typos and other things to nit-pick about…
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I beleive “photo stickies” can do this as well, and for free, if I’m not mistaken. My apologies if I’m remembering that incorrectly…
I used this for a client’s vacation home in Hawaii – now they can enjoy the virtual view from the mainland. A desired feature request is the ability to connect and control multiple cams with one computer.
I downloaded ‘Periscope’ yesterday and like it so far….seems similiar to this, only different.
As far as size, MDN, I am happy with this. It is perfect for having two pages open on my 20″ incher. (to clarifiy, that is ‘web’ pages and ’20’ inch iMac.)
Waiting for ChrissyOne to post a great take on Towertones 20inches in 3…. 2…. 1….
I have a 17″ display, and this new sizing means that, with my usual window, I don’t even see all the ads on the right side. Yay! Nicely done-especially as I don’t want to see them, never have, and never will.
There’s ads on the right side? The redesign is not friendly to Camino. Waste of money, if you ask me.
Jim TIV
Forget it-Chrissy’s is 4″ bigger than mine…..
STOP fucking complaining about MDNs site. It’s the best forum site out there. It is CONTENT that I look at NOT DESIGN.
That said I really don’t think it’s much of a change anyway.
Silver Surfer, you had me at STOP.
You seem a little crabby. I hope you don’t beat your parents.
If MDN’s target audience is the working stiff, then they’ve hit the target by designing for 17″ monitors.