Monday, July 27, 2009

Using Dell E6400 built in WebCam

Apparently, this stupid E6400 latitude laptop doesn't come with a Dell-specific camera application. It's got a built in webcam on the top, but nothing to use it.

I figured out that I could just use Start > Accessories > Scanner and Camera Wizard and it takes simple pictures. You can use the Dell Webcam Central utility at the same time to control zoom, brightness, etc. It's rudimentary, but works well enough, I suppose.

Now what?

Ok, it's almost 2010 and I finally broke down and created a blog. In general, I've never been highly attracted to blogs. I tend to be more of a wiki guy. However, recently I've been trying to find a place to write down a bunch of random things about setting up web pages, computers, and other geeky IT stuff and I'm not sure exactly where to put it or publish it so I can find it later. I thought maybe this would be a decent way of doing that, so I started a blog.

Now we'll see if I ever use it.

Rich