Top 10 Geeky Things You Can Do With a Webcam

6. Turn Your PC Into a Photo Booth

Mac users have the super-fun Photo Booth built in, but chances are your webcam came with a similar software of its own for taking photo booth-style pictures. Even if it didn’t, web-based photo booth applications like Cameroid or Waves.TV are great options.

If you are using Photo Booth on a Mac and you love Flickr, be sure to check out FlickrBooth, a plug-in that automatically uploads new Photo Booth photos to your Flickr account.

7. Set Up a Birdfeeder Webcam

Love a good stint of bird-watching but don’t want to miss the rare birds that stop by your feeder? DIY web site Make details how to make a birdfeeder webcam

8. Create Your Own Fonts

You can use your webcam to create a font from your own handwriting. This font can be used to send emails or create documents with a personal touch. Head over to pilothandwriting site, download and print the template provided.

Now fill out the boxes in the printed form with the corresponding alphabets – using your handwriting. Once done, use your webcam to take an image of the form and upload it to the website. After upload, the site will show you the template and you can edit it to make the alphabets look better.

That’s it! Now, the website will generate a font based on your handwriting and then you can download the font to your computer and use it with any software of your choice.

9. Do Live Streaming

These days it is VERY easy to live stream from your webcam to the internet. The popularity of it is also increasing due to several web-based services which turn it into child’s play.

Ustream makes bringing live video to the web really easy. To use Ustream, all you need is the Flash plug-in installed to your web browser. It doesn’t get easier. Stickam is another similar service to Ustream.

10. Fun Gaming Using Webcam

A webcam can literally put you into the action while playing a game. At newgrounds. com, you will find a collection of short, quick online games and Adobe Flash applets that use your webcam. Just head to the games section and webcam games subsection on the website. You will need to allow Flash Player to access your webcam when it prompts you – this has to be done for each game.

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Similarly, services like ChatHopper is an online chat service that lets you video-chat with complete strangers while giving you the added ability to also play interactive games! ChatHopper offers interactive webcam video games that are both entertaining and fun. Here is how to play games on ChatHopper using your webcam.