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Available In: App Store

Price: $1.99

Live Cams is one of the few apps that make it right on the front page of my iPhone. I’ll tell you the reason right up front before the entire review. I only use a few of their features but there are many more. So why is it on my front page? Because when opening the app, I can customize it to show thumbnails of the camera’s I’ve added myself. I’ve got it set to show 8 cameras all at once, then I tap on a camera to see it full screen. This way I can monitor all of our cameras at work from anywhere. The reason I can do this is because the app lets you customize what tab gets opened when the app loads.

Now for some of the many features offered by this app. The first tab is the search tab. Once opened you see a list of presorted categories of cameras. If you’re looking for a camera in your locations or of a specific topic not on list there is a custom search button in the top right. This is more like an advanced search not just giving you the option to type in your search but from what category, country, state, and more. For the example below, I did a search for Hawaii.

The next tab is the favorites tab. When viewing any camera, there is a grey heart in the top right corner. Tapping this changes it to the color red and then adds it to the favorites tab.

The random tab is pretty self explanitory. It loads 9 pages of random cameras it it’s database. You can swipe through them by swiping left and right.

Again, self explanatory is the recent tab. It shows the 9 most pages of cameras you’ve checked out.

Adding your own cameras is pretty easy and this app supports all kinds of cameras. There’s even support for PTZ (Pan/Tilt/Zoom) cameras. I like using it to add security cameras from work and traffic cams from around town. All you have to do is add the web address of the camera. This lists them under the “My Cams”.

Overall, this is a simple app with a lot of features. It supports lots of cameras and file types and you can customize the app the way you want it. It’s also very stable. I’ve also used an app called “Webcam” but I like “Live Cameras” much better.

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MobiScope: Spy live cams ($0.99)

Version – 1.2

REVIEW – “An great app for people who take their security seriously!”

Whether you are a business owner, or if you just like to keep an eye on your house while you’re away, MobiScope: Spy live cams, is an app that will allow you to keep tabs on things with your mobile device! Not only can you view one security camera with this app, but you can actually view multiple cams at the same time over a wifi network or over the standard cell phone network!

When you open up MobiScope for the first time you will be asked if you want to add a web/network camera to your camera list. If you choose not to set one up you will simply be shown a list of “public” camera’s that you can view. You can also choose to not see this message at startup ever again by toggling the “Do not ask me again button. I browsed through this list pretty thoroughly and while the majority of them are not much to look at, there are a few that are pretty cool to be able to check in on.

One thing to note is that if you are expecting to be able to quickly set this up to use your laptop’s built in webcam you are probably mistaking the purpose of this app. It will require quite a bit of setup and knowhow to get a regular computer cam hooked up and running; however, if you have a camera with its own IP address and you know its basic information (make, model, etc.) then setup is fairly quick and painless.

Once you set up your camera’s you can view them at any time by selecting them from the “My Cameras” page. If you want to you can also group cams together so that they can be viewed all at the same time. The simple list layout makes it extremely easy to manage multiple cams, and camera setup was pretty painless because of how many predetermined profiles are included in this app.

Not being a huge security person myself, my favorite feature of this app were the “Public Cameras.” This area will allow you to view security cameras in all kinds of locations from Niagra Falls to the White House! It is important to mention that these feeds will not be live video and the reason for this is that they are just security cameras streaming on the net and so there will be a lot fewer “frames” sent than what you see in a live video.

In summary this app offers a little something for everyone. For the security guru there is a highly customizable interface that allows you to view your cameras either one at a time or in groups. For the average user there is a list of cameras from all around the world that you can use to see what the weather is like and what is going on in specific locations. At just $0.99 this app is worth it in my opinion whether you find it to be useful or even if it is just a quick diversion!

- David H.

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Developer – SHAPE Services

URL: http://www.mobiscope.com/

DEVELOPERS NOTES

ON SALE for limited time.

This is a small app to stream public live cams or your own IP cams on your iPhone or iPod touch. Now with full-screen mode, full OS 3.0 support.

Explore beaches, animals, harbors, resorts, volcanos, rivers, hotels, traffic, cities and many more sites!

You can also watch live, full motion video from your IP network cameras. If you’d like to monitor activity of your child or a pet when your’re away, or would like to create a surveillance system at your home or garage, Mobiscope is an app for you!

Now with PTZ (Pan, tilt, zoom) camera controls!

Most interesting webcams added this week:

• Famous pedestrian crossing outside the Abbey Road recording studio. Watch Beatles fans re-enacting the The Beatles’ Abbey Road cover, taken on August 8th 1969.

• Mount Washburn, a mountain in Yellowstone National Park, in the U.S. state of Wyoming

• Mount Rainier National Park in the southeast Pierce County and northeast Lewis County in Washington state

• Mount St. Helens, an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the US

• Old Faithful, a cone geyser located in Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park in the United States

• Llaima Volcano, one of the largest and most active volcanoes in Chile

• Colima’s Volcano, the most active volcano in Mexico, erupting more than 40 times since 1576!

• Mount Vesuvius on the coast of the Bay of Naples, Italy

• Mount Ararat from webcam located in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan

• Mount Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan

• Klyuchevskaya Sopka, the highest active volcano of Eurasia and a part of the natural UNESCO World Heritage Site Volcanoes of Kamchatka

• Caldera Volcano of Santorini island, Greece

Additional benefits include:

• Free 24/7 technical support
• Free updates, bugfixes and new features
• Free weekly updates of camera list

Mobiscope supports the widest choice of IP network cameras from more than 50 manufacturers including Axis, D-Link, Genius, JVC, Lenovo, Toshiba and others. See full list here:

http://www.mobiscope.com/cameras

Follow Mobiscope (@mobiscope) on Twitter to get latest product news!

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Mobiscope is also available on BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, J2ME and Symbian phones and as a web service. Read more at www.mobiscope.com

About SHAPE Services
SHAPE Services is a leading mobile software development company. Since 2002 IM+ and other SHAPE’s apps have been topsellers in different e-shops and app stores worldwide on all major mobile platforms and phone models. Visit www.shapeservices.com for more details.

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