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I thought up a cool idea the other day and would like to know if something like this is possible/has already happened. Here goes: The internet has webcams. Webcams are connected to a computer running software that uploads a picture to a webserver every N seconds. Java is what you'll probably use to display the images off of the webserver in an applet. The idea that I came up with was to take a screengrab of your monitor instead of snapping a picture from a webcam. This screengrab is uploaded to a webserver and then displayed with a java applet on your site. My question regards the camera software itself. Does java have the capabilities to upload a picture to a server every N seconds? Has it been done before for regular webcam software? If so, links? J# is fair game also. -Thanks in advance everyone. Sorry about the wall of text :P