VideoMonitor is a comprehensive webcam application that's simple enough for beginners to use, but packed with features for power users.

Some of VideoMonitor's features include:

• Built-in FTP client to upload snapshots to an Internet FTP server
• Built-in webserver to turn your computer and home Internet connection into a mini-webcam-website
• Automatic image captioning with transparency and support for multiple captions
• High-quality image manipulation system, including automatic:
• Image resizing, with bicubic/bilinear interpolation
• Image cropping, to remove unwanted areas of snapshots
• Image sharpening, to increase image clarity
• Image softening, to increase image smoothness
• Color, brightness, and contrast adjustment (independent from your camera's built-in color management)
• Motion detection system to alert you whenever motion is detected on your camera
• Recent snapshot history browser
• Manual snapshot feature to take snapshots on demand

VideoMonitor is released as free software under the GNU General Public License.