Creative WebCam Monitor

Creative WebCam Monitor is a software tool that provides users with a simple means of setting up a surveillance system at your home or office, so that you can better protect your belongings.

Simple setup and user-friendly interface

The installation process can last a while, as you are required to input your personal information in order to continue. Other than that, you just have to click “Next.”
The interface you come across is quite minimalistic, seeing it consist only of a few buttons and a pane in which to view the web camera feed. Although no Help contents are incorporated, this tool can still be used by beginners and experienced people alike, as its GUI is quite intuitive.

Support for motion detection

This application can run in two simple modes, so that you can be sure you choose the best type of surveillance system to protect your home or office.
To be more precise, the first enables you to start motion detection and will inform you of any movement. It does this by setting off an alarm, sending an e-mail to a custom address or send the first video frame captured to a specified web page.

Take pictures at a custom time period

The second mode enables you to capture still images with the webcam at a user-input time interval. The resulted pictures are going to be saved to a custom location on the hard drive, or they are going to be saved to a user-defined FTP server.

Conclusion

To wrap it up, Creative WebCam Monitor is a pretty decent piece of software when it comes to monitoring your home or office with the help of your web camera, regardless of your previous experience with computers.
However, you should know that this product has been discontinued a while ago, which means that it is not going to receive any more updates, and it might not work properly on newer operating systems such as Windows 8 or 8.1.