Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens
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Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens
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Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens
#2Pretty neat hack! Were you conscious of the script each time you opened the lid? I imagine I would forget about it after the first week.
Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens
#3Pretty neat hack! Were you conscious of the script each time you opened the lid? I imagine I would forget about it after the first week.
The first day or two it just took the photo in the background without me knowing about it. But too many of the photos were really bad (deleted most of them). I was moving or my head was cut off or out of frame. I was willing to trade the 'security' of hidden photo gathering and instead just had it launch PhotoBooth and immediately take a picture. That gave me three seconds to compose myself and if I couldn't do it in time I could just click the capture button and take another one. Occasionally I would get annoyed at it, but it was over quick enough.
Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens
#4Very neat idea! I know you didn't try posing the same way for every picture, but I wonder if you couldn't put together a video that shows every picture in sequence with your face centered to prevent too much jarring movement?
I've always wanted some way to tap into iPhoto's face recognition since mousing over the thumbnail in Faces view creates a neat effect with the subject's head always in about the same place. Even better would be the image matching tech used on TinEye. For example, find a picture of the moon (or click http://www.tineye.com/search/45a444e7e4f564f58321c60347db9a8... ) then use the "compare" link for various matched images. TinEye rotates and scales all the images to match up as closely as possible, which lets you view some neat moon wobble effects... that kind of tech could be very cool if it was able to do the same with your myriad face photos.
Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens
#5Really cool, I always look at these 1 pic a day programs and think I should do that sometimes, and the longest I've done is ~1 week.
What I think would be cooler is if you could randomize it a bit. Privacy concerns?
Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens
#6Pretty neat hack! Were you conscious of the script each time you opened the lid? I imagine I would forget about it after the first week.
You could just add a growl notification, might get annoying over time though
Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens
#7Pretty neat. Is there any way to do this on Windows? I'd like to try a similar experiment with my Thinkpad
Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens
#8Really cool, I always look at these 1 pic a day programs and think I should do that sometimes, and the longest I've done is ~1 week. What I think would be cooler is if you could randomize it a bit. Privacy concerns?
The was the core idea of getting it when the laptop opened. By having it always go off I had no effort (or choice) about getting my photo taken. And it paid off as I kept at it for years.
Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens
#9Really cool, I always look at these 1 pic a day programs and think I should do that sometimes, and the longest I've done is ~1 week. What I think would be cooler is if you could randomize it a bit. Privacy concerns?
I'd personally want to do a daemonized process so I and anyone else would be none the wiser, with a randomized delay of under a minute after the lid was opened.
Regarding privacy? I doubt anyone would get into any sort of trouble with it. If it's your laptop, you can install whatever you want on it, even rootkits and keyloggers.
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#10This would be a neat way to catch a laptop thief.