London Live Camera

London Live Camera is a lightweight Yahoo! gadget that gives you the possibility to view a live display of London, England, from Big Ben. In order to make use of the widget’s capabilities and deploy it on all Windows versions out there, you need to have Yahoo! Widget Engine installed on the target PC.

It takes nothing more than a quick and simple installation process in order to place the gadget on your screen. What’s more, you are offered the freedom to move it to the preferred location the desktop using drag-and-drop actions.

No tips are revealed about how London Live Camera works. However, you can quickly get an idea about how the widget operates. It does not come bundled with any configuration parameters of its own. No additional settings are hidden under the hood.

London Live Camera simply reveals a live view from Big Ben directly in the main window and automatically refreshes the live display. Tests have demonstrated that the gadget is responsive. It remains light on system resources so you do not have to worry that it affects the overall performance of the system. You may keep it running in the background.

You can also appeal to some extra tweaking options offered by the Yahoo! platform in order to hide or close the widget, set the opacity of the main window pretty quickly thanks to the integrated slider, turn off the ability to drag the widget with the mouse, ignore all mouse events, as well as have the gadget always on top of other windows or keep it below all panels.

To sum things up, London Live Camera proposes nothing more than a simple software solution for helping you get a live view from Big Ben. It can be tweaked by less experienced users and professionals alike.