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Old April 22nd, 2004, 02:16 AM
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I would like to announce Wired New York Webcam. I spent several hours last night trying to make it work, and it seems operational, in time for arrival of Queen Mary 2.

The webcam is working today, but I am not sure what will happen tomorrow, enjoy it while it's operational.

The picture, http://www.wirednewyork.com/webcam/wirednewyork.jpg is updated every 10 seconds, and, correspondingly, the Webcam page is reloaded every 10 seconds using Javascript.

If you experience any problems viewing the webcam, post it here.
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Old April 22nd, 2004, 08:51 AM
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Here the image taken at 7:40 am this morning. Image quality is not very high, so it's hard to appreciate the size of the ship The red streaks come from the webcam, unfortunately.

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Wow.
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Old April 22nd, 2004, 01:44 PM
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Old April 22nd, 2004, 10:57 PM
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After a day of broadcasting, the following changes will improve the viewing experience in my opinion. I am increasing the size of the picture from 320x240 to 640x480, but reducing the refresh rate to 1 frame per minute.
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Thanks Edward
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Old April 24th, 2004, 12:48 AM
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I have created an animation from the output of the webcam, 12 frames taken 1 minute apart, but showing it in 12 seconds. It shows Queen Mary 2 leaving New York on a one-day trip. The file is in Macromedia Flash format.

http://www.wirednewyork.com/webcam/webcam3.swf
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Old April 24th, 2004, 01:58 AM
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Neat!
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Old April 24th, 2004, 12:22 PM
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Bye, see you soon!

Oy, I'm such a cruise junkie.
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Vewy Vewy Cool
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Old May 16th, 2004, 05:23 PM
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Some pictures from archive:

4 May 2004




9 May 2004




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Hey, I thought it was updating every 10 seconds...
When I checked on the cam, it was updating only once each minute. No big deal, though. Still very cool.
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Old November 15th, 2004, 12:18 PM
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I have installed a new webcam insted of the old one. Picture quality is now better, and I have changed the refresh rate to every 30 sec. Here is the current picture:

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Where it this area located at? Is this from your apartment?
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Looking west towards Hudson river - over Hell's Kitchen - from Ninth Avenue and 50th Street. And yes, that's from my apartment.
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