As a part of American Kestrel Partnership project, Peregrine Fund put live cameras online to broadcast interior and exterior views of American Kestrel nest boxes in their campus in Boise, Idaho.

One of the nestboxes is not only populated, four eggs have been laid recently and hatching is expected soon. The live picture is made possible by putting IP cameras and connecting them with to Ustream.tv broadcasting service through Adobe FMLE software through my IP Video Source DirectShow driver for IP cameras (the IP camera video feed is streamed 24/7 through a virtual video device picked up by FMLE and re-encoded into uploadable stream forwarded to Ustream online service for further distribution).

For more information, see:

• American Kestrel Website
• News Release: The Peregrine Fund launches new project, website to conserve American Kestrels
• NPR news story about the project
• American Kestrel Partnership Project
• American Kestrel on Wikipedia
• The Peregrine Fund on Ustream.tv

Watch the pet on live cameras below:

North Nestbox – Outside

http://ustre.am/Evbs

Live stream videos at Ustream

North Nestbox – Inside

http://ustre.am/J6jD

Live broadcasting by Ustream

South Nestbox – Outside

http://ustre.am/JjP2

Streaming Live by Ustream

South Nestbox – Inside

http://ustre.am/JjP7

Streaming Live by Ustream

If you drag a file over Windows Live Messenger‘s My Sharing Folders shell name space item, it would immediately interrupt dragging with an error message box, even if you never planned to drop onto this folder:

This should definitely be rather implemented a different way. If you ever tried to drag something using slow PC touchpad, you probably have an idea of how annoying such an interruption could be.

Windows Live Messenger was pre-installed. To disable shared folders feature, I wanted to find a proper setting in options, but it did not appear to be easy enough: Help button, Show the menu bar, Tools, Options, Sharing Folders on the left, oops! it was not helpful.

Going another way of finding DLL that hosts the shell extension revealed file named: C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\fsshext.8.5.1302.1018.dll. Once unregistered, the folder went away from the shell (process restart needed, typically logoff/logon):

C:\>regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\fsshext.8.5.1302.1018.dll"