Here are the two links that I found on this subject. One is the Cam4you and the other is Softcam.
cam4you is a freeware. I tried cam4you and realized that there is a big catch. After googling, I confirmed that my understading about the catch is true. Here is a nice tutorial on using cam4you and the tutorial's author confirming the catch. Do not confuse this with Cam4you-remote, which the application author confirmed that it cannot be used as webcam.
The big catch is that you cannot use the camera as a webcam which can be used for video conferencing. In other words, the digital camera cannot be mimicked as a webcam which can be used with your yahoo/MSN messenger. What you can do is to upload the pictures to a location on the web, which gets refreshed. So, your viewers have to refresh their page every time they want to see the latest image (Note that some browsers like opera have the built-in capability to auto-refresh at a chosen frequency. You also can get addons firefox & IE which can do this).
It seems that this limitation is not there in softcam, which can grab any piece of your screen and provide that as a feed from the webcam. The feed can be used in chat clients like Yahoo/MSN.
It is a licensed software. Though a shareware version is available, I did not try it out. I will try it out and will update this post later
cam4you is a freeware. I tried cam4you and realized that there is a big catch. After googling, I confirmed that my understading about the catch is true. Here is a nice tutorial on using cam4you and the tutorial's author confirming the catch. Do not confuse this with Cam4you-remote, which the application author confirmed that it cannot be used as webcam.
The big catch is that you cannot use the camera as a webcam which can be used for video conferencing. In other words, the digital camera cannot be mimicked as a webcam which can be used with your yahoo/MSN messenger. What you can do is to upload the pictures to a location on the web, which gets refreshed. So, your viewers have to refresh their page every time they want to see the latest image (Note that some browsers like opera have the built-in capability to auto-refresh at a chosen frequency. You also can get addons firefox & IE which can do this).
It seems that this limitation is not there in softcam, which can grab any piece of your screen and provide that as a feed from the webcam. The feed can be used in chat clients like Yahoo/MSN.
It is a licensed software. Though a shareware version is available, I did not try it out. I will try it out and will update this post later
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