Monitor my dogs with iSight and Mac

First, I'm a novice at all forms of electronic media but learning fast. I've moved to Scotland with my two dogs who must now live in the kitchen-laundry room during the day while I'm at work. I want to set up my mac powerbook G4 with Tiger OS and an iSight camera to send real time pictures of the dogs and what they are up to. I'd like to be able to watch them from my Dell PC at work and then hollar at them through some speakers when they are doing something they shouldn't be doing. Yes I know this is weird but hey why not if the technology is out there and I think it is. I just need some guidance on compatibility etc. Can anybody take this on and provide suggestions on setups, hardware, software, issues? Cheers

I use a great little application called EvoCam. It works with the iSight, has a great feature set. One thing I like about it is the built in webserver. This makes it very easy to setup and get running. I use it for my office and home webcams. I have not had any problems with it.
Here is a link to the developer
http://www.evological.com/evocam.html

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