| ICDSoft |
Website hosting. Best place around with low prices, great features, and support you can't beat. |
| Macromedia Dreamweaver MX |
This manages the entire website, and interfaces with the web server. |
| SWISHmax |
Allows me to create the Flash movies for the home page, header area, and the webcam. |
| Legacy Family Tree |
The software that manages the master genealogy database. Daub Ages (below) was used prior to this, and is good for smaller databases. The capabilities of Legacy are excellent. |
| Daub Ages |
This creates the family trees that are posted on the website. |
| PhpGedView |
The software that allows the online viewing of the genealogy database. |
| DAlbum |
Photo album management software. |
| PHP |
The programming language I used to create the birthday calendar, birth maps, newsletter subscription management, plus other miscellaneous functions like pre-processing the temperature log file uploaded from my house to the webserver for the Flash display on the webcam image. |
| Adobe Acrobat 6.0 |
Converts the family trees created with Daub Ages into Adobe PDF format. |
| Watchport/V USB |
The webcam, which sits outside a small building ("the love shack") in the back yard, and is plugged into an old Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop along with the DLP-TH1 sensor below. |
| DLP-TH1 |
The USB device I use to monitor the outside temperature and humidity at my house. |
| Webcam32 |
The software that captures the webcam images and uploads them to the webserver. |
| VisualCron |
Scheduling software that launches a DOS batch file containing an FTP upload command for sending my temperature data to the webserver every 10 minutes. |
| ThumbsPlus |
My image manager. |
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