SurveillanceSaver is an OS X screen saver that shows about 400 live security camera videos from public accessible Axis network cameras. It shows surprising scenes from underwater pool cameras, cows in milking machines, to shopping malls and street cameras.
SurveillanceSaver
This is awesome:
Tags: big brother, computers, mac, mpegs, security, xscreensaver
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And the 99.99% of the internet who are perverts scream for the version that has *just* the underwater pool cameras.
In hi-def. So you can project it on the wall behind your desk in your secret underground lair!*
*: otherwise known as your mum's basement, yes, yes.
Then maybe I should help them out and tell them how to get access to security cameras via Google...
This is the second or third result, on Google, for the search terms the SurveillanceSaver author put on his blog:
http://156.17.62.173/jpg/image.jpg?r=
FYI, he's searching for Axis network cameras, and uses this search url (you can extrapolate the search string from it): http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:%22jpg/image.jpg%3Fr%3D%22
that is awesome, thanks for posting that!
Whoa, the first thing that makes me want a Mac :)
I'm sure this can be integrated into Xscreensaver without too much trouble.
Or maybe not, it seems like Google search is blocking webcollage with a 403 when I try and use it to search for Axis network cameras. Google Image search, which does sort of work, doesn't have the Axis network cameras. Perplexing.
Also, a quick look at the binary for the screensaver linked to above shows that it's hard-coded all the IPs for all the network cameras into the the file. Expect this to stop working in 5... 4... 3... 2...
Hack for webcollage. The method is called "security_camera". I'll tune the bugs out of it if you'd like to include it.
Nice, thanks.
Try something like http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php if you just want to view publically accessible cameras. Although I admit it's much cooler to have the images in a screensaver. :-)
As I said above, I've been using Google to find these.
Boy, that was a lot of energy wasted.
That would be really convenient, but I bet it's impossible.
If you're talking about using Google to find security cameras, it's far from impossible. There's a number of searches you can use (my favorite is allintitle:"Network Camera NetworkCamera") that will show links to different cameras. You can even pan and tilt them (on most of them), and basically control them. It's pretty neat.
I like: "live view axis"
17,500 for "live view axis"