Your Online Webcam

Okay, so you've bought your webcam, you've got all your hardware and software in place, and you know how you're going to send your images to the Web server. Now it's time to decide what you're going to do with your webcam. The best part about making this decision is that the options are limitless. You can point the camera out your window and add images to your own Web page, run your own video chatroom, use the camera to watch your room while you're away on vacation, or come up with something entirely different!

Once you've decided how you want to use the camera, you should also put some thought into how you want to present your images on the Internet. You might already have your own Web site where you'd like to display some ...

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