Animated GIFs can serve as excellent avatars for your online networking or forum accounts. Normally you would create a GIF image of your own pictures by taking different snapshots through your webcam, then passing the shot images through a GIF creator. Using 2 or more apps for the process normally becomes necessary. However with an [...]
Installing security features in your house or office can be very expensive. Cammster offers a free way to monitor your home and office for intrusions by using your webcam to detect any motion. Simply register and launch the Cammster program before leaving the house, if Cammster detects motion via webcam it will alert you via [...]
People who want to create a web channel of their webcam feeds have a variety of services to choose from. But if you are looking for a website that lets you broadcast your webcam feeds as programs and let you view others’ feeds as well, the list of websites narrows down. One of the best [...]
If you need to know what has been going on in your home while you were away, surveillance equipment would be a good option. But surveillance hardware can come with a big price tag. If you are looking for a basic monitoring option, then check out Sensr. Sensr is a great website that lets you [...]
Gathering opinions and responses have traditionally been done through paper-based or telephone surveys, but with the Internet it has evolved into web-based polls. Intervue takes it a step further by letting people use their webcam to participate in surveys and polls quickly. Anybody can create and post a question on Intervue seeking responses. The question [...]
Are you trying to decide which location should you choose for your next vacation? What will help more than brochures and travel pamphlets is an actual, more ‘real’ view of the places you plan on visiting. This view can be received through Webcams Travel. Webcams Travel is a free and simple to use website that [...]
Many web apps let you create animated GIFs and many let you capture images from your webcam. 3Frames is an instant gif maker that combines both of them to let you create animated GIFs from your webcam. As the name suggests, you can use your webcam to capture 3 different frames or images. Once you [...]
Do you need an ad-hoc wireless camera system? Why not use your Android phone as a web cam? IP Webcam is an Android app that lets you transform your phone into a network camera which will let you remotely view videos that are captured real-time. You can view the video via a browser or stream [...]
If you love beautiful handwritten letters, and are tired of typing emails in those default fonts which look dull and uninspired, then you could try this innovative web based tool called Pilothandwriting. It enables you to type emails in your own handwriting on the computer. Here’s how it works – you sign up with them, [...]
Luxand Blink is a nice face recognition tool for Windows PCs that lets users log in just by looking at the webcam instead of typing the password. Setting it up isn’t difficult. Once you run the software after installing it, it registers your face using the webcam. Just follow the instructions and you should be [...]