Turn Your Webcam into a Motion Detector

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Motion Detection is a free application that turns your webcam into a motion-sensing security camera in just a few clicks. It saves still pictures and/or makes .avi files when anything inmotion is detected in front of the selected webcam. The pictures and the framesof the movies are timestamped.

Assuming you’ve got a webcam hooked up to your computer, all you’ve got to do is runMotion Detector, set your preferences and hitStart to run your new security webcam. Motion Detector’s sensitivity sliderlets you determine just how much motion the app needs to detect before itstarts capturing images.

Download: Motion Detection v1.02 [130kb]