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Vitamin D Turns Your Web Cam Into A Security Camera

7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’ve been thinking about setting up a web surveillance camera but were put off by the expense or hassle, Vitamin D makes it easy to turn your web or networked camera into an easy-to-use monitoring tool. More »

Turn Your PC Into A Wi-Fi Home Surveillance System

4:30AM Adam Pash | We’ve highlighted gobs of tools for turning your computer into a security camera, but if you’re interested in building out a serious, multi-camera home surveillance system complete with wireless cameras, weblog MakeUseOf details how to do so. More »

Recordr Creates Quick Webcam Videos For Sharing

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Need to capture something on your webcam real quick? Free webapp Recordr offers both bookmarklets to snappily enable your webcam and microphone, as well as an upload service to embed or link your social videos, no registration required. More »

HighlightCam Is A Quick And Easy Motion-Sensing Security Cam

7:00AM Adam Pash | We’ve featured various motion-detecting video apps in the past, but now there’s HighlightCam, a web site that does the same thing but adds easy off-site backup and doesn’t require you to install anything. More »

Glow Doodle Makes Painting With Light Simple

6:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows/Mac: Glow Doodle turns your webcam into an extended exposure camera, perfect for creating hand-drawn light streak art. More »

Motion Detection Is An Effective, Dead Simple Security Camera App

9:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Motion Detection is a free application that turns your webcam into a motion-sensing security camera in just a few clicks. More »

Google Maps Shows Local Webcams

9:00PM Kevin Purdy | Google Maps picks up a layer from webcams.travel, giving you embedded views of public webcams anywhere you want to go. More »

Turn An Old Web Cam Into A Household Spy Camera

6:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you have an old web cam laying around, you can turn it into a functional spy cam with only a bit of hardware handiwork. More »

Google Launches Voice And Video Chat Inside Gmail

5:52AM Gina Trapani | Today Google starts rolling out voice and video chat inside Gmail—which requires a free browser plug-in download, and, obviously, a webcam. Googler Justin Uberti explains: More »

EyeSight Turns Your iSight Into A FTP-Enabled Webcam

2:00AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: Free application EyeSight takes time-lapse photos with your Mac’s built-in iSight camera. EyeSight is very customisable, so you can set your photo intervals anywhere between 10 seconds to 999 days, save the images in whatever format you like, and upload the results to an FTP server of your choosing (or just save them in a local folder). If you want to eventually turn the results into a video, I’d recommend previously mentioned Gawker, but if you’re more interested in something like a web-enabled security camera, EyeSight is the way to go. EyeSight is freeware, Mac OS X only. Windows users, check out previously mentioned YawCam. If what you really want is to beef up your laptop’s security, we’ve got you covered there, too. EyeSight [via MakeUseOf] More »