Repair Spy
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Join For FreeTakes a screenshot and a webcam snapshot and emails them to flickr. Requires isightcapture. Hacked up to spy on the Apple repair team as they try to repair my Mac Book Pro's backlight for the second time.
#!/bin/bash
# requires isightcapture http://www.intergalactic.de/hacks.html
# path to save the images
PATH=/Users/default/
# flickr email address
EMAIL="yourflickremail+private@photos.flickr.com"
# tags to attach to each picture uploaded
TAGS="repair_spy"
TIMESTAMP=`/bin/date "+%y%m%d%H%M%S"`
FRIENDLY_TIMESTAMP=`/bin/date "+%Y/%m/%d %H:%M"`
#take pics
/usr/sbin/screencapture -mxC $PATHscreen_$TIMESTAMP.png
/usr/local/bin/isightcapture -t png $PATHisight_$TIMESTAMP.png
#post to flickr
/usr/bin/uuencode $PATHscreen_$TIMESTAMP.png $PATHscreen_$TIMESTAMP.png | /usr/bin/mail -s "Repair Spy Screenshot - $FRIENDLY_TIMESTAMP tags: $TAGS" $EMAIL
/usr/bin/uuencode $PATHisight_$TIMESTAMP.png $PATHisight_$TIMESTAMP.png | /usr/bin/mail -s "Repair Spy iSight Cature - $FRIENDLY_TIMESTAMP tags: $TAGS" $EMAIL
Toss this in your crontab like so, making sure to run it as the user that you provide to the Apple Techs
*/1 * * * * default /Users/default/repair_spy >& /dev/null
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