Saturday, January 12, 2008

Affordable Remote Video Surveillance for Everyone

John was on a business trip in Europe, when his cell phone rang. He picked it up and there was a text message that read motion has been detected at your home on camera #2.

No one was supposed to be in his house while he was away, so this could only mean one thing, someone has broken in.

John immediately logged on to the internet and in less than 2 minutes he was watching a stranger rummaging through his house. By comparison, the 10 minutes it took him to contact his hometown police department seemed pitifully slow.

Yeah John said Im watching the guy on my surveillance cameras right now, you can still catch him if you hurry

A few minutes later the police arrived at Johns house and caught the thief just as he was leaving with a bag full of Johns stuff.

John thought to himself, this surveillance software has just paid for itself, unlike my neighbors alarm system that calls the police every time his cat triggers a sensor.

Home security and surveillance can be an indispensable tool for keeping an eye on things while your not there. Video surveillance software allows you to use your home computer monitor as your viewing platform, and involves minimal set up using inexpensive software to connect your security cameras with a home network.

Applications can include doorway or gate security, grounds surveillance, or you can even view a hidden nanny cam right from a computer monitor inside your home. Or by logging in through the internet to view your surveillance cameras, you can view what your security cameras see from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.

In the past, it was quite expensive to maintain and implement such security systems because they were tied to expensive recorders and other fancy hardware components. CCTV Systems and other high-tech surveillance systems can cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars up to many thousands of dollars. But now, you can turn your computer into a powerful surveillance system at a fraction of a regular security system cost.

These surveillance software packages have no monthly fees, which means that for a small one-time cost you can have remote video surveillance for a lifetime.

Most of these software surveillance systems are easy and quick to setup and require only a very basic knowledge of networking. Some of them only require you to place the CD in your computers CD drive, and the software will walk you through the process in about 5 or 10 minutes.

These surveillance software packages can be used with wired or wireless security cameras. A high quality video stream will be viewable from a computer within your home, or from anywhere with an internet connection. One such software package that I have discovered is the Visec security software. For around $100, you can install, set up, and immediately start viewing up to four surveillance cameras, remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Using your computer's IP address to log on, you can view live or past video, and many of these software packages even allow for a motion detection mode which will record video activity just when motion is detected.

They can even be set up to alert you by email, cell phone or PDA when motion is detected.

While these streaming surveillance videos can be viewed with a dial up connection, a High Speed Cable or DSL internet connection is recommended. The use of a dial-up modem will tend to give you a choppy video due to the slow bandwidth speed of the connection, whereas a high-speed internet connection will allow for a much smoother real-time video.

Steven Rubin is the owner of North American Security Products, LLC. A company dedicated to providing you with the means to protect and defend yourself against crime.

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6 Fantastic Public Golf Courses in North Carolina

The United States is blessed with many wonderful public golf courses, including several in the state of north Carolina. In this article, we will review some of the best public golf courses in the north Carolina, and what they offer.

1. pine Needles Lodge and golf course in Southern Pines, was laid out by the Scottish born golf architect, Donald Ross. The course, which has always been lovingly maintained, has in recent years been restored back towards the original Donald Ross design, while the greens' foundations have nevertheless been rebuilt to USGA specifications.

2., 3. and 4. Pinehurt resort and country Club in the village of pinehurst is home to no less than 8 different golf courses as well as the pinehurst golf Academy. The most highly rated are No. 2, No. 4 and No. 8. The No. 2 course was designed by Donald Ross in 1907. The No. 4 and No. 8 courses are both designs by Tom Fazio (2000 and 1996 respectively), although the No. 4 course owes a great debt to an earlier Ross course on the same site. The No. 2 is especially known as a challenging course, not because of any individual feature, but because of the combination of features that it offers, and hence is a popular site for golf championships, more in fact than any other course in the country, including having hosted the 2005 U.S. open Championship.

5. Rivers edge golf Course is an Arnold Palmer Signature Course in Shallotte. The course is home to spectacular landscapes, and six of the holes sit upon bluffs which overlook the Shallotte river and surrounding marshlands.

6. ocean Ridge plantation in Sunset Beach is home to four courses: "Lion's Paw", "Panther's Run", "Tiger's Eye", and new in 2007, "Leopard's Chase". While all the courses have something special to offer, perhaps the best known and most highly regarded is the "Tiger's Eye" which has been rated as one of the best public golf courses in the country by golf Digest.

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Losing Weight with Supplements

many consumers find that they are wasting their hard-earned money and that many of the supplements have no effect on their waistline, and the only thing that is slimming down is the wallet. Physicians warn that many unscrupulous marketers will make impossible claims in order to get buyers to walk through the virtual doors of their marketplace.

Do you know which the best dietary supplements are? Chances are, you do not know. What some consumers may consider the best weight loss supplements will have little or no effect for other consumers who try them. after all, there are so many weight loss pills on the market right now, that it is hard to understand how each of them works, and what their claims to fame are. Similarly, it is hard to know what the risks of the individual supplements are, especially since many of them are formulated quite differently from one another.

If you are trying to lose some weight, the odds are pretty good that suddenly you are paying much more attention to the television ads that tout the benefits of a host of dietary supplements. It may appear as though the floodgates have opened, because when you open your newspaper, you cannot help but see the ads for dietary supplements are there as well. Of course, the same can also be said of your email inbox.

As a matter of fact, between ephedra diet pills, ephedra free pills, and the latecomer to the bunch Hoodia it is not surprising for many dieters to simply purchase the newest addition to the market, and hope for the best. According to doctors, the best weight loss supplements are the ones that not only work, but that also will not have any counterproductive effect on medications you may already be taking, and that will also not add stress to your heart. So before taking any dietary supplements, please be safe and visit your doctor!

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Believing in good balanced diet, taking vitamins and minerals. daily exercise, yoga, stretching, breathing exercises, drinking enough water, meditation, relaxation, positive thinking, and trying to be happy.

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