I’ve had to switch my webcam off. We’ve had loads of rain over the weekend and the lake is starting to flood. At the rate it is going I imagine my webcam will be under water tomorrow.

Unfortunately because the water is so high I can no longer get to it to take it down so I might need to buy another one if I can find one so it might be a while before it’s working again.

The company I bought it from has stopped trading I think so if anyone knows where you can buy Neu Fusion wireless network cameras then please let me know.

Well this is my first attempt with the Action Cam. I attached it to the handlebars of my Harley but had to mount it to one side as the headlight would have been in the way of the camera if I put it on the middle.

The camera is mounted to the left of the headlight as you look at it.

The picture quality isn’t too bad. It is actually better than what you can see here as it is degraded slightly to put it on the web.

The built in microphone had a bit of a problem with the noise coming from my bike which is very loud but all in all I’m impressed with this little gadget. Press play to watch the movie.

I been good recently and haven’t bought any gadgets for a while now but when on saw this on Firebox.com I couldn’t resist.

It’s an Action Camera which you can strap to your helmet or handlebars and film what you see when you’re out and about. It stores the video on an SD card and with a 2GB SD card you can record both image and sound at 30 fps 640 x 480 pixels for 60 minutes.

I’m going to attach it to the handlebars of my Harley and see how it comes out.

I’ll post the video after I’ve been out on my bike.

I used my Tom Tom Go 510 yesterday when I needed to go to Peterborough to get a passport renewed. I had no idea where I was going so I just left it up to the Tom Tom to guide me.

All was going well when all of a sudden while travelling down the A421 the Tom Tom got lost. It kept telling me I was driving in a field and I should turn off and kept re-calculating my route. Now I’ve been down this road many times before and I’m sure it has been there for at least 5 years.

Eventually it recognized the road I was on and all was well and it directed be into the centre of Peterborough on time and managed to get my passport.

I was a bit concerned about how it would take me home and once I got on this dual carriageway it did the same thing again which begs the question, how up to date are these maps in the Tom Tom?

I have a Linksys WAG54GS that I bought only a couple of months ago and if it disconnected from the internet the only way I could reconnect is to go status and press connect. Obviously if I wasn’t at home at the time and had access to the router I couldn’t do it and the internet connection to my house would be down until I returned.

This was a real pain as it meant I had no access to my webcam, CCTV system or Sony Locationfree amongst other things.

I tried everything I could think of with the settings. I tried both connect on demand and keep alive but nothing worked so I decided to try their online support and after waiting for more than 30 minutes for an operator they suggested I upgraded the firmware of the router. This has actually solved the problem but what annoys me is I only bought this a couple of months ago and the firmware I had version V1.00.08 needed to be upgrade to V1.00.12 which was released on 06 December 2005!

So why on earth are they shipping routers with firmware over a year old or are they telling me I bought old stock?

I would prefer to think that it was old stock (although I have my doubts) as I can’t believe any responsible company would want to ship routers with firmware which is so out of date and had been upgraded twice to fix known problems.