http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:01:04 GMT DZone Snippets: apple code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3586 Takes a screenshot and a webcam snapshot and emails them to flickr. Requires <a href="http://www.intergalactic.de/hacks.html">isightcapture</a>. Hacked up to spy on the Apple repair team as they try to repair my Mac Book Pro's backlight for the second time. <br /> <br /><code> <br />#!/bin/bash <br /># requires isightcapture http://www.intergalactic.de/hacks.html <br /> <br /># path to save the images <br />PATH=/Users/default/ <br /> <br /># flickr email address <br />EMAIL="yourflickremail+private@photos.flickr.com" <br /> <br /># tags to attach to each picture uploaded <br />TAGS="repair_spy" <br /> <br />TIMESTAMP=`/bin/date "+%y%m%d%H%M%S"` <br />FRIENDLY_TIMESTAMP=`/bin/date "+%Y/%m/%d %H:%M"` <br /> <br />#take pics <br />/usr/sbin/screencapture -mxC $PATHscreen_$TIMESTAMP.png <br />/usr/local/bin/isightcapture -t png $PATHisight_$TIMESTAMP.png <br /> <br />#post to flickr <br />/usr/bin/uuencode $PATHscreen_$TIMESTAMP.png $PATHscreen_$TIMESTAMP.png | /usr/bin/mail -s "Repair Spy Screenshot - $FRIENDLY_TIMESTAMP tags: $TAGS" $EMAIL <br />/usr/bin/uuencode $PATHisight_$TIMESTAMP.png $PATHisight_$TIMESTAMP.png | /usr/bin/mail -s "Repair Spy iSight Cature - $FRIENDLY_TIMESTAMP tags: $TAGS" $EMAIL <br /></code> <br /> <br />Toss this in your crontab like so, making sure to run it as the user that you provide to the Apple Techs <br /> <br /><code> <br />*/1 * * * * default /Users/default/repair_spy >& /dev/null <br /></code> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:38:54 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3586 jnewland (Jesse Newland)