You may have noticed Camfrog is now bundling the freeware WeFi software as an optional install. If you didn’t see the install offer it’s because it only appears for people who have Wi-Fi cards on their laptop or desktop.

WeFi allows you to easily find free Wi-Fi hotspots all over the world with the first open global Wi-Fi network. If you haven’t tried WeFi yet please check it out. In Addition to getting you connected quickly and easily to open Wi-Fi networks around you, the WeFi software automatically checks which networks can really get you connected to the Internet and which can’t, and shares it with all the other computers and mobile phones that run WeFi. So the more people running WeFi means many more available networks for everyone.

Please visit WeFi and give their software a try.

Logon to Camfrog.com with your logon/pass, then view your own profile by going to http://profiles.camfrog.com/yournickname where “yournickname” is your Camfrog nickname.  You’ll see a new link called “Add comment”.  You can now post comments on your own profile instead of being limited to only posting comments for others.

Camfrog Server 4.0.98 is now available for download.  In this software upgrade Camfrog Server log files appear immediately on the server hard drive instead of having to sign out your server to see the logs, or wait several hours.  We made this change due to user requests.  If you have any problems with this new version please send  a detailed report to our help desk.  Please upgrade.

Don’t ever enter your Camfrog logon and password or your Camfrog Pro serial number on any other website besides www.camfrog.com.

Lately some Camfrog users have received emails or instant messages falsely stating that if you enter your Camfrog logon and password on a certain website you will get free room hosting or some other free item from Camfrog. This is absolutely false! Please use caution and always make sure the site you are logging on to is www.camfrog.com. If you are not sure then try manually typing www.camfrog.com in the address bar of your browser before logging on.

If you did accidentally enter your Camfrog logon and password in one of these scam phishing websites then you can quickly change your Camfrog password by going to your contact list, then the “Actions” menu and choose “Change Password”.

If your Camfrog account is stolen please quickly report it to the helpdesk, or logon with a different Camfrog nickname and click “report inappropriate content” on your profile and let us know what happened.

Please visit our security tips page for more security tips.

Some users have reported problems with Camfrog Server 4.0 and the log feature. Camfrog Server 4.0 collects logs, but the logs do not appear until the server places a cache from memory to the hard disk. It can take several hours, or one full day for the logs to appear on the hard disk. If you want logs sooner you can sign your room off-line and the log file should appear immediately. This change was done to make the Camfrog Server software even more efficient. If you are experiencing problems with the new Camfrog Server version please send detailed information to our contact page help desk.

We are looking for users who want to add their photo to the Camfrog.com index page. Please check out the “add your photo” page for more information.

Basically we are looking for users who have a high quality and interesting or amusing profile photo for the Camfrog index page. Your page will rotate and appear occasionally along with other Camfrog users.

Some rooms reported that users who were kicked from the room still appeared in the user list. We did some testing and released Camfrog Server version 4.0.47 that should fix this issue. Please upgrade if you have any problems with the previous 4.0 version.

With Camfrog Server 4.0, you can now use a simple web interface to remotely manage your Camfrog Video Chat Room settings, without having to establish a remote desktop connection. You don’t even need to have a webserver running on your server computer. Everything you need to do this is built into Camfrog Server 4.0.

To enable the Web Interface, simply open your Camfrog Server settings window, and click to the Web Interface tab. Enter an unused port in the Listening Port textbox (48 for example) Then enter a username and a password to use for security verification.

For additional security measures, enter your IP address that you will be connecting from (not the IP of your server.) You can add up to 5 IP addresses, simple separate each one by a comma. Now just press Apply/OK and exit/restart Camfrog Server software.

To access the web interface from your computer now, simply open Internet Explorer, and in the address bar, put the IP address of your server:portnumber (The Port number you specified) Eg: 10.10.3.1:48 (We used 48 as our example earlier)

Remember, when you change any settings in your web interface, be sure to click the Save button.

Today a user sent us a message that he uninstalled Camfrog 5.0 because he could not open very many webcams in recommended or super rooms, because it would fill up his screen. The user said he did not like that room owners could choose what size video windows he had to view.

In Camfrog 5.0 we made sure Camfrog client users are still in complete control when it comes to choosing what size video you want to view. Go to your contact list to find the “actions” menu then choose “settings” then go to “video”.

From there you can choose to set your default video viewing size to whatever you want for any type of room. The video you are viewing will still come in at the resolution the room owner selected but it will be resized to fit your screen better.

If your server won’t logon please try upgrading to the newest version of Camfrog server. Please upgrade your room so users can begin to see high quality video with the new 5.0 Camfrog client.