Spice up you cam, with Webcammax!

So as you know, we are having our first live show in a few weeks and I wanted something to "spice" up the webcam we will be using, so I did some looking around and found something fun.

It's called Webcam Max and that is what it did for us here at Tech"Know" Podcast.

It's a fun little program where you can add a variety of effects over your webcam.

So what can it do?:

• Transform: apply Distorting Mirror, Fire, Mosaic, Line, Color, Snow or Water to your video show
• Mask: wear all kinds of glasses and hats, or change your hair style, or even pretend to be a famous people
• Background: Change your background to the place you like
• Frame: add some Frame to make your video cooler
• Emotion: use smiley’s you like to express your feeling better
• Text: type what you want to say on the video box directly
• Customize effects properties: change the effect's color, position, size, speed and etc.
• Create your own effects: Just follow the guide and it's really easy and fun

Now, what can it do well:

Well, really it does everything as advertised. However, if you’re looking for a super high end program, this is not it.

However if you want something easy; get this, but make sure you have a good enough computer. I have a Pentium 4 3.07GHz and 1Gig of Ram and I have had it freeze on me when I am using some effects, like masks, as well as when I am doing screen capture mode.

About the cost: it is $19.95 for six months, $29.95 for one year, $39.95 for two years or the best deal, $49.95 for a lifetime of use.
So what programs does it work with?

• MSN
• Yahoo Messenger
• Camfrog
• YouTube
• ICQ
• AIM
• Skype
• Paltalk
• ANYwebcam
• Stickam
• Ustream
• All others

Another thing I love about this is the Picture in Picture mode where you can choose your main source and a PIP source that will appear in a corner of the webcam, so you can talk about a movie while its playing.
So over all, for me I'll give it a 4 out of 5 but that's because of the crashing and freezing on my computer. But that is just my computer. If you plan to broadcast or you just want to have fun over chats like MSN or Skype this is a cheap program to use.

Want to give it a try click here

Thanks,
Tech"Know" Team

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And an Apple fell from the sky!

Apple had another keynote today and talk about a lot of stuuf, new and old. I watched the video and so can you.

It can an be found here

But cause I am so nice I'll sum up what I liked:

Itunes:

• HD movies will now be available in Itunes for 2.99.

• Also NBC will be joining back in Itunes and have HD and SD shows

• Itunes is now the number one in music distribution of any kind

• Itunes 8 is now available is will include a cool new browser to view you music and movie and so on.

• As well as a new thing called Genius that will take a song you pick and build a playlist based off that song and with will grow as you get more music, it "smart"

Ipod:

• Ipod classic will no longer have a fat mode. And the thin will be the same price at $249 but will not be 80GB it will be 120GB

• They are releasing a new Ipod nano(seen above) in may colors it will be curved like the rumors with curved glass in front of the screen.

• This will be it is the thinnest Ipod ever

• Apple took the accelerometer from the Ipod touch and Iphone and put it in the nano, to view pictures, moves and cover flow.

• You can make genius playlist on it with no computer.

• Shake to shuffle, you shake the nano and it picks a random song.

• Two models: 8GB for $149 and 16GB for $199

Ipod Touch:

• A new Ipod tough with a curved back like the Iphone

• Also they put in Nike + Ipod with a built in step tracker

• They put a built in speaker for "casual listening"

• And include genius playlists

• The models:
• 8GB $229
• 16GB $299
• 32GB $399

• Calling it the "funnest Ipod ever"

Apple Iphone and Ipod Touch:

• 100mill apps have been downloaded in 60days

• New games:
• Spore Origins is out today
• Need for Speed: Undercover

• The new 2.1 firmware for the Ipod Touch and Iphone is coming this Friday.

• Steve Jobs said that it would have few Iphone glitches and crashes also faster backup time

Make sure to watch it yourselves.

Thanks as always,
Tech"Know" Team