My wife needs an intervention for her Live Cams addiction

It's a difficulty commendable of an episode of Intervention. Yes, I'm disgraced to adjudge that my spouse is addicted to the Live Cams app on her iPhone.

It every started when she was searching for newborn apps in the App Store, and she detected a little app titled Live Cams [US$0.99, iTunes Link]. It measured innocuous sufficiency -- the app provides a way to search, browse, view, and in whatever cases, curb springy scheme cams every over the planet. At a toll of inferior than a buck, Live Cams couldn't harm anything or anybody, could it? We were both sure that the developer, Barry Egerter, couldn't hit whatever grievous intentions, so she bought Live Cams and installed it on her iPhone.

That's when I detected the changes reaching over my wife. Rather than conversing over dinner, she would countenance at her iPhone, occasionally touching the concealment to switch to a newborn webcam or intend a camera at a newborn target. She'd interrupt my unceasing attempts at reaching a newborn high reason in DoodleJump [iTunes Link] by gesture her iPhone in grappling of my face, forcing me against my will to countenance at artful kittens cavorting on a felid cam in Tokyo. And when she started waking up at 3:30 AM to see what the "Really curvy agency in Slovenia" looked like in daylight, I knew she had a problem.

Apparently, she's not alone. The app was at the top of the iTunes App Store charts terminal night, and she's somehow crooked me on Live Cams as well. After all, I crapper kibosh looking at the take from the Shamu river whatever instance I poverty to. Really.

Live Cams is a rattling addictive app. As my spouse place it, "It gives you brainwave into what's feat on every over the world correct now." The intent behindhand the app is ultimate -- display the most past take from thousands of webcams around the world. Launching the app brings up a haphazard 4 panoramic x 3 gangly installation of webcam images, and swiping the concealment to the mitt brings up another installation of images. Every instance you alter up the haphazard screen, there are another 108 images you crapper countenance at.

Tapping on whatever of the diminutive displays fills the iPhone concealment with the image, and there are buttons to let you curb cameras (if they're controllable over the Internet), snap a picture of the screen, or place a webcam on your favorites list. My spouse has substantially over 100 webcams on her favorites list, including several display ponds in continent where wildlife (lions, elephants, wildebeest...) crapper be spied from instance to time.

There are whatever views that are spectacularly beautiful, much as the borough Bridge cam, the Eiffel Tower cam, and my personal selection display the hillside municipality of Positano in Italy. Some cams are only for fun, including the delightful Cat river in Tokyo. And there several cams that don't deserve a second look, like the one display the inside of a computer room in Milan, Italy.

If you hit your own clannish webcam, it crapper be additional to the app as well. All you requirement is the IP come and port, individual name, and password, and within seconds that cam appears on your iPhone screen. Hey, if I had the money to acquire a bunch of webcams, I conceive I'd hit 'em ordered up to check my felid during the nowadays we're not in the house.

Live Cams is meet most the most recreation you crapper hit for a buck. And I'm willing to look that my spouse and I crapper intend a group rate on an intervention for our Live Cams addiction... if we adjudge that we hit a problem. Check out whatever of our selection concealment shots in the gallery below.

Gallery: Live Cams - A recreation addiction