Use Skype as a Home Security System
I use Skype quite a bit and noticed one day that it has the ability to auto-answer incoming phone calls and enable your web camera. One may ask, why would you ever to do this? You can use this feature when you are away from home on vacation so you can dial in to your Skype account and then watch live video of your house. Since Skype is free and most people have a web cam, then this is a perfect solution if you wanted to set up a quick and dirty remote web cam security system.
So if you had multiple computers, you can set up multiple Skype Accounts such as gregnbrown_livingroom or gregnbrown_frontdoor, etc, you would dial in to whatever account you want to view. Of course, you will want to set up your profiles so that only you will be allowed to call into your account and disable anyone else who is not in your contact list.
