{"id":36066,"date":"2020-05-10T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=36066"},"modified":"2020-05-10T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T23:14:12","slug":"9-eyesvirtual-preservation-monthuse-your-phone-as-a-webcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/9-eyesvirtual-preservation-monthuse-your-phone-as-a-webcam\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Eyes\/Virtual Preservation Month\/Use your phone as a webcam"},"content":{"rendered":"

9 Eyes<\/strong>
\nThis blog is called\u00a09-Eyes<\/a>\u00a0because the cameras on cars that take photos for Google\u2019s Street View maps have 9 lenses. The anonymous curator of this site posts unusual photos they come across on Street View. Most of the photos are of people being people: acting silly, fighting, eating, pulling leashes attached to livestock, soliciting prostitutes, taking drugs, nursing their young, etc. Endlessly fascinating. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Daily tours of historic sites<\/strong>
\nFor the entire month of May, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is sending out a daily email unlocking one historical site that you can explore virtually. On Friday, I toured\u00a0Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s Pope-Leighey House<\/a>\u00a0in Virginia and fell in love with the Mayan-inspired motif and yesterday morning, the National Trust released a 27-minute\u00a0concert video filmed at Nina Simone\u2019s childhood home<\/a>\u00a0in North Carolina. There are still 29 more days to go. You can\u00a0sign up here<\/a>. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Using your phone as webcam<\/strong>
\nYour phone is probably a better camera for streaming than your laptop or third-party webcam you are now using. To see how you can use your phone as a webcam, check out this\u00a0technical video from Norm Chan at Tested<\/a>. You\u2019ll need two free open-source apps on your computer, and an inexpensive app on your phone. Following the instructions I got very high quality streams from my iPhone 8. This is good for YouTube, Facebook, Twitch streams but not for Zoom, Meet and other video conferencing yet.\u00a0 \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Rechargeable 9-volts<\/strong>
\nI feel kinda dumb I had not figured this out earlier. We\u2019ve managed to replace all the batteries in our household with rechargeable batteries, except for those 9-volt batteries. The ones with the two nipples on top that are in things like smoke alarms. But you can get rechargeable 9 volt batteries! Duh. As the current 9-volts die off, I\u2019m swapping them out with these AmazonBasics 9-volt Rechargeables<\/a>. I use this HTRC all-battery charger<\/a> to charge them. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Mesh Wifi to the rescue<\/strong>
\nWe live in a house with walls that have chicken wire behind the plaster. They do a great job of blocking Wifi. To get around it, I installed a Frankensteinian hodgepodge of cables, powerline adapters, and wireless access points all around the house. They all had different SSIDs and the coverage was still spotty. It was frustrating. A decade later, I broke down and bought a\u00a0Google Nest router and three wireless hubs<\/a>. It set me back $500 but now we have great coverage throughout the house with no need to change SSIDs on our devices as we move from one room to the next. I expected my family to be grateful, Instead they are mad at me, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you get this sooner!?\u201d \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Kevin Kelly’s birthday advice<\/strong>
\nPersonally I know Kevin to be effortlessly wise and warm and honest, and his way of life is something I\u2019ve strived to copy, so I treasure these 68 bits of unsolicited advice<\/a>. There are so many sparks of clarity here and great guiding principles to adopt. These are my favorite:
\n\u2022 Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.
\n\u2022 A worthy goal for a year is to learn enough about a subject so that you can\u2019t believe how ignorant you were a year earlier.
\n\u2022 The universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success. This will be much easier to do if you embrace this pronoia.
\n\u2014 CD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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