{"id":1850,"date":"2007-07-16T19:01:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T17:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/secure-your-home-using-your-pc\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:51:18","slug":"secure-your-home-using-your-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/secure-your-home-using-your-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Secure your home using your PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Say \" id=\"image1853\" title=\"Say \" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/07\/camera.jpg\" \/>I love <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-sightseeing-north-america\/\">going on holiday<\/a> but I often worry about leaving the house empty for a long time. Thankfully I&#8217;ve found a way to prevent the burglars helping themselves to the contents of my gold cellar without having to spend a fortune on security. By rooting out an old webcam and installing a simple piece of software I was able to keep my home under constant surveillance while I went away recently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/camuniversal.en.softonic.com\/\">CamUniversal<\/a> is a great solution that can be used to turn your webcam into your personal CCTV system. Its built-in motion detection tool will pick up on any movement in front of it whenever you&#8217;re out of the house. The great thing about this app, and many others of its <a href=\"http:\/\/surveillance.en.softonic.com\/\">ilk<\/a>, is that you can program it to perform a certain action when motion is detected. You can use this to do all manner of sneaky things, such as snapping the crooks red-handed, triggering an alarm application or even sending an email to let you (or in this case, my friend Big Dave) know when security has been breached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love going on holiday but I often worry about leaving the house empty for a long time. Thankfully I&#8217;ve found a way to prevent the burglars helping themselves to the contents of my gold cellar without having to spend a fortune on security. By rooting out an old webcam and installing a simple piece &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/secure-your-home-using-your-pc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Secure your home using your PC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337421,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/337421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}