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9 Must have Free Webcam Softwares

Web cams are always fun whether its friends or professional work. Here is a collection of 8 free ( you can download for free) plus 1 commercial webcam softwares which allows you right from stream virtual video streams, capturing images, uploading it to ftp, capturing videos from TV Tuner or friends webcam to Making the images funny and decorative. They even upload to ftp right after you take a picture. One of the softwares even diagnose your web cam to tell if it has some problem with USB drivers or anything else. #8 is the commercial version, rest of them are absolutely free. Have fun with them. Hey just forgot to tell u , You can even use some softwares to create a fake webcam and us it with IM like Yahoo messenger and MSN

#1 Phozi

Phozi supports wide range of frames and stocks and color pencil tool.You can use it to create Avtars and use it on IM.The phozi widgets work with any site that allows you to embed html codes. Popular sites include myspace, piczo, iGoogle, and freewebs. Phozi also works with popular blogging software like Blogger and TypePad as well as any webpage!. They have also integrated with Facebook so should be fun to us. Its called as Phozibooth on Facebook

Visit Phozi

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#2 Booru Webcam

This simple program allows you to capture, zoom images from a webcam and allows you to save it as BMP,GIF,JPEG,PNG,TIFF formats. A standalone executable file which does not require any installation. Just click it and use it. This also allows images to be directly uploaded to a FTP server as soon as you capture it. Download Booru Webcam

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#3 Yawcam

If you are looking for a webcam software which supports motion detection and video streaming , this is the right one. Its Java based freeware which also allows for FTP upload of captured images and videos.It has an inbuilt web server through which you can protect motion detection feature.Download Yawcam and do check the system requirement which includes Java6 and Available for Windows 2000/XP/Vista.

#4 Barcopedia

This utility allows you to read a barcode of any material or product and give you the details of the product from their extensive database. Just hold it close enough to focus the complete barcode and software does the rest. This can be useful if you are just left with barcode and you did not knew what the product was.However the current scanner only works with EAN13 and UPCA barcodes. Therefore if the scanner is unable to scan your barcode ensure that the barcode has 12-13 numbers below it

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#5 SplitCamera

If you want to use your webcam for more than one application like using it on IM like yahoo and also other video conferencing tool, his will be a good choice. SplitCamera is a freeware virtual video clone and split video capture driver for connecting several applications to a single video capture source.

Split Camera driver allows you to easily multiply your web-camera (any models), video cameras ( any model: analog or digital : VHS, DV, TV-IN or TV-tuner ) in video chat or video conference software like ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Skype Video, Camfrog, AOL AIM, Pal Talk, or whatever… and to broadcast it to many users at a time. You can connect upto 64 clients with Splitcam. This is also useful in case if you want to show videos to your friends but one is on MSN and other is on yahoo. Download Split camera ( its Free)

#6 Cameroid

These two Web sites every cam owners should try. Its hell lot of fun when you want to give your images a funny twist. Both of them can detect your webcam and allow you to take funny images or even scary ones. :D. Its like Photo MacBooth loaded in your browser. You can apply different affects like color,morph, on uploaded images.Visit Cameroid

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#7 VideoMage Producer

This software allows you to have control on the incoming video streams. You can use it manipulate your friends webcam and use affects like fading, resize and store on your PC / computer. Yes it works on real time images and videos coming from even TV Tunes, pre-recorded video. You can highlight specific areas and add affects to it. Check out the Download page of VideoMage

#8 Virtual Camera

This is one of the most fav software as it allows to you to create a fake webcam by using already available media files and stream virtual video feeds from your computer.It can be used on Windows 98 ME 2000 and XP. You can also use web clips.This can be faked as a web cam while using along with most popular IM software such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, PalTalk, etc. support real time video chat.

Even if you have a cam it can easily switch from real to virtual and allows you to share pics or videos which you might have shooted and want to show your friends instead of asking them to download it which is not preffered most of the time. VirtualCamera supports most type of media such as pictures(JPG, gif, bmp etc.) and videos(wmv, AVI, asf, MPEG, rm, rmvb etc.). You can also select a folder which contains a lot of media files and let VirtualCamera play them to your net friends one by one.

However this comes at a price of 29$. If you really are a cam freak and want to use it. Download Virtual Camera. A small tip: Look out for cracks. I have seen people using it and I can bet they did not pay any money for it.

#9 Webcam Diagnostics

Having Problem with you cam ? You can get a free checkup of your cam and they will diagnose your cam right from driver installation to USB issues.It can point to problems and can give you suggestions too. Click to Webcam Diagnostics

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Ashish is one of the co-author of this blog and writes on various interesting softwares, PC tips and more. You can read more of his articles here.

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indyank, October 12, 2007:

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Nirmal, October 12, 2007:

Great list. I liked the first one. Stumbled.
Thilak, October 12, 2007:

Oh my god! I never knew, I could do so much with my built-in webcam. I must really try YawCam. Motion detection and video streams! Sounds like I can make an ultimate spy gadget using that!
Adheeth, October 13, 2007:

Hey Nice compilation!! and great effort….applauds!
Ashish Mohta, October 13, 2007:

Thanks Adheeth
Ashish Mohta, October 13, 2007:

Haha Yes. Even i liked it a lot. Too good and free
Alex, October 14, 2007:

Hi!

Thanks for posting us! We just yesterday launched some new features that you may be interested in! Please check out the new version of phozi.com!
Ashish Mohta, October 14, 2007:

@Alex: Hi, You are welcome. I likes your software a lot. You can do lot of things I will be checking out the new version. haha I hope you guys just keep it free.

If you want you can post this review on your site somewhere also.
ram, October 14, 2007:

Nice compilation, i liked the phozi in this list. I will check this one.
Ashish Mohta, October 14, 2007:

@Ram: Thanks man. Yes pozi is too cool. I have started using it more often now
Capt. Jean-Luc Pikachu, October 15, 2007:

Phozi & Cameroid seem completely useless, but the rest are nice. Thanks for the tips
William, October 19, 2007:

Can I use all of them with Mobiola Web Camera?
Ashish Mohta, October 20, 2007:

@William: Yes you should be able to use it with any standard webcam
BloodLust, October 25, 2007:

Cool, thanx a very many times mate

Been looking for a free cam motion detection piece of software for ages.
Symbian, October 26, 2007:

But Mobile Web Camera is not standard, it emulates camera.
Angela, November 1, 2007:

Thanks for the tips. I don’t have a webcam, but I thought about getting one. Knowing the various softwares offered will be very helpful.
Manav, November 1, 2007:

nice article bro!!!!
2 gud…quite an untouched topic…
thanx for d knowledge enhancement….
keep it up.
Refurbished Test Equipment, November 14, 2007:

Good post!

Thanks alot for the tips.
Mariah, December 28, 2007:

Hi Ashish, you always give us the best technology updates. I’ll be buying a new webcam and these programs are great to maximize its use. Thanks again.
asha, January 19, 2008:

Is there any software to watch yahoo webcams without the users knowledge .
Plz tel me
Ashish Mohta, January 20, 2008:

@Asha: there are I have used it once but then again It was a spyware so i had to delete it once. Its not safe and probably I am not the right person to answer this question
neboweb, June 11, 2008:

Awesome list. I have been looking for a good webcam program to use that had motion detection. I previously used DigiWatcher but it started to get on my nerves. I am now using Yawcam.

Keep up the good work!