Comments on: How To Turn Your iSight into a Security Camera with Automator http://www.macstories.net/tutorials/how-to-turn-your-isight-into-a-security-camera-with-automator/ Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Tweedledee http://www.macstories.net/tutorials/how-to-turn-your-isight-into-a-security-camera-with-automator/#comment-3988 Tweedledee Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:00:13 +0000 http://www.macstories.net/?p=1638#comment-3988 Is it possible to: 1) Remove the dialog box the pops up when the script it opened? and 2) Remove the annoying spinning icon that appears in the menu bar? Is it possible to:

1) Remove the dialog box the pops up when the script it opened?

and

2) Remove the annoying spinning icon that appears in the menu bar?

]]> By: Andy Tuba http://www.macstories.net/tutorials/how-to-turn-your-isight-into-a-security-camera-with-automator/#comment-3850 Andy Tuba Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:40:25 +0000 http://www.macstories.net/?p=1638#comment-3850 I just noticed an app which was listed on last week's One Finger Discount: Watchmac (http://bloo7.com/watchmac/) It lists a coupla surveillance features: movement, taking out battery/charger, password hacking, iSight capture (like we have here), alarm sound, and says it's pretty configurable and even has command line options. $15 after 15-day trial period. I just noticed an app which was listed on last week's One Finger Discount: Watchmac (http://bloo7.com/watchmac/) It lists a coupla surveillance features: movement, taking out battery/charger, password hacking, iSight capture (like we have here), alarm sound, and says it's pretty configurable and even has command line options. $15 after 15-day trial period.

]]> By: Andy Tuba http://www.macstories.net/tutorials/how-to-turn-your-isight-into-a-security-camera-with-automator/#comment-3798 Andy Tuba Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:31:27 +0000 http://www.macstories.net/?p=1638#comment-3798 @Andy Tuba forgot one small detail: the closing backtick on the cal to date. Read this instead To add a timestamp to the file, change the shell script to this: TIMESTAMP=`date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S"` isightcapture "~/Pictures/isight-at-${TIMESTAMP}.jpg @Andy Tuba forgot one small detail: the closing backtick on the cal to date. Read this instead

To add a timestamp to the file, change the shell script to this:

TIMESTAMP=`date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S"`
isightcapture "~/Pictures/isight-at-${TIMESTAMP}.jpg

]]> By: Andy Tuba http://www.macstories.net/tutorials/how-to-turn-your-isight-into-a-security-camera-with-automator/#comment-3797 Andy Tuba Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:29:40 +0000 http://www.macstories.net/?p=1638#comment-3797 To add a timestamp to the file, change the shell script to this: TIMESTAMP=`date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S" isightcapture "~/Pictures/isight-at-${TIMESTAMP}.jpg To add a timestamp to the file, change the shell script to this:

TIMESTAMP=`date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S"
isightcapture "~/Pictures/isight-at-${TIMESTAMP}.jpg

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