I did it! Live webcam added to liquilife.com!

Posted by liquilife on 09/03 at 09:15 PM

I recently picked up the new Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000. Of course, a nice shiny new great webcam is no good when it is just collecting dust. I had to put it to good use somehow. So I set off to seek out methods to send updated routine pictures to liquilife.com. After checking out several nifty programs that capture images from my webcam once a minute then uploading via FTP I decided that I didnt really want to pay for this solution. Then I stumbled on Stickam.com.

Stickam.com is a new website that allows you to stream your webcam through a nifty flash interface. Generally the site is focused on hosting a profile page that you can ‘go live’ with and have a myspace’ish type page with your streaming webcam. People can then zoom in on your camer and enter in your personal lobby and chat with you while streaming their camera to you assuming they have one. Well, this is great but I’m not interested in chatting with other webcammers. What I found to be a solution is the flash widget you can grab the html for and stick anywhere on any webpage with your live video feed while you are ‘live’. Perfect!

The flash widget is normally a skyscraper banner shaped rectangle with some advertisements under your cam etc. Well, with a little CSS trickery and modification to the flash code I was able to nicely hide 90% of the flash widget resulting in what you see in the top right of my page! Best of all the service is absolutely free. Using stickam’s flash video streamer is easy, I just hide it away in a Firefox tab and let it go, go and go.

Visit stickam.com!

Posted by liquilife on 09/03 at 09:15 PM | 0 comments | Permalink
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