Like the original app, Photo Booth for Windows 7 includes a selection of special effects you can apply to the image on your webcam in real time, and then take a picture of it. Once the picture appears in the camera roll at the bottom of the window, you can save it to the hard drive or share it on Facebook and Twitter straight away.

The good thing about Photo Booth for Windows 7 is that it doesn’t require installation and is very easy to set up. All you need is Adobe Flash Player and a webcam. Then you can start applying effects and taking snapshots of yourself and your friends posing for the webcam.

Though Photo Booth for Windows 7 lacks some features found in the original program – such as background effects, or being able to record video – it’s still one of the best Photo Booth clones for Windows you can find these days.

Photo Booth for Windows 7 is an easy, addictive app with which to have fun with your webcam.

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No matter which webcam brand you use, MyCam will work with it right away. The program doesn’t need any special configuration – in fact, it doesn’t even need installation – and is really easy to use. Simply run the EXE file, let it connect with the camera and you’re ready to go.

The downside to being that simple is that MyCam hardly features any configuration settings. All you can do is choose between JPG or BMP for camera snapshots, and MPEG or AVI for videos, besides setting video quality and framerate.

Then again, if all you want to do is capture simple webcam videos and snapshots without all the rings and bells of other applications, MyCam is what you’re looking for.

MyCam is a very simple, easy-to-use tool that lets you record video and take snapshots with your webcam.

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If you have a webcam for your PC or laptop, then you can turn your computer into a barcode scanner. This is especially handy if you have a bunch of items that you want to catalog. One thing to note is that you will have to have a pretty decent webcam that can focus on items up close to scan.

Once you have bcWebCam installed, launch it and you're greeted with a brief tutorial. bcWebCam should be able to detect your webcam right away. If it doesn't show up, make sure the drivers are installed properly.

The main interface of bcWebCam is dominated by a live video window. While bcWebCam can't do much but extract barcode numbers, it can sit in the background to scan and extract barcode numbers into a text field. For example, if you want to scan a product into Amazon.com, have bcWebCam running in the background while your cursor selects the search bar. The data from the barcode will be inserted directly into the search field.

Overall, bcWebCam feels like a workaround to get barcode data into a text field. We wish it had an option to search popular sites with the barcode information instead of forcing the user to navigate themselves.

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If you're in need of surveillance software, or simply want a way to take advantage of recording and broadcasting video in real-time on a webcam you already own, Active WebCam is a tool you'll want to take a look at.

Active WebCam broadcasts video at a speed of up to 20 frames per second, live and from virtually any webcam you own. It's a great tool for surveillance, specifically because Active WebCam can sound an alarm or email you images whenever it detects motion in the area you're monitoring. This gives immediate notification that users will be able to take action on as soon as possible. Active WebCam is available to use on multiple webcams at once as well.

In addition, users can view the video recorded on any web browser. There's also no need to download any sort of plugin upon set up.

For beginners, Active WebCam offers a wizard that will help get your webcams set up. The configuration options are pretty diverse, and you can even create a webpage with customized colors and fonts where you can post the videos you've recorded.

Some users might not be impressed by the very plain-looking interface, unfortunately. There are also still some bugs that seem to need to be worked out, as Active WebCam freezes and crashes on occasion.

For Windows PC users who need a solid surveillance tool and already own a webcam, Active WebCam offers a respectable amount of options and tutorials to get you going.

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CoffeeCup Video Recorder supports many popular video sites and what's more, allows you to add new ones to the list. We didn't have any problem when testing it with our webcam, although we didn't manage to get a text overlay on the image, not even checking the Help system.

In all, CoffeeCup Video Recorder is quite simple but at the same time very useful for those little fun clips you usually upload to the Internet.

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