Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens • Hacker News Board

Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens

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Post by kluikens » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 9:16 PM UTC

This would work well for DailyBooth, a la scrobbling for last.fm.

Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens

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Post by thwarted » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 9:50 PM UTC

Here's a bunch of shell scripts I hacked up take pictures when certain events occur on linux. Could be extended to handle the lid opening or coming out of sleep, although I have a feeling that xscreensaver detecting may already handle most of that case (because I think the screensaver gets activated, or at least the screen is locked, automatically when the lid is closed).

https://github.com/thwarted/picsofourlives

Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens

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Post by pyre » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 10:04 PM UTC

Tycho wrote: post #20

dfranke wrote: post #10

This would be a neat way to catch a laptop thief.

that's what I was thinking. make it send the pics to a web archive whenever it finds an open connection. then you'd almost want your laptop to get stolen

You could create a honeypot netbook and take it with you to places like Starbucks and just leave it out when you go to the bathroom,etc.

Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens

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Post by Timothee » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 10:05 PM UTC

dfranke wrote: post #10

This would be a neat way to catch a laptop thief.

Prey actually does it as part of their reports on stolen laptops: http://preyproject.com/

Probably not with PhotoBooth though :)

Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens

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Post by adamdecaf » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 12:36 AM UTC

dfranke wrote: post #10

This would be a neat way to catch a laptop thief.

Before reading the article I thought it was going to be about catching thieves.

Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens

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Post by annon » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 12:36 AM UTC

I'm going to do this, but instead of having photobooth open, I found a command line app to capture an image from the isight: http://www.intergalactic.de/pages/iSight.html

Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens

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Post by notJim » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 12:41 AM UTC

Became far less interesting the moment he started posing for the pictures, IMO. There's tons of photos on the web of geeky types mugging for the camera. It's those moments of unguarded excitement, waiting for your MBP to finish waking up from sleep that are novel.

At least in my opinion.

Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens

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Post by icefox » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 2:07 AM UTC

notJim wrote: post #27

Became far less interesting the moment he started posing for the pictures, IMO. There's tons of photos on the web of geeky types mugging for the camera. It's those moments of unguarded excitement, waiting for your MBP to finish waking up from sleep that are novel. At least in my opinion.

When you open the lid of a MacBook mine have always been ready and running, there is no waiting for them to finish waking up like on Windows.

Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens

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Post by obiefernandez » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 2:30 AM UTC

It'd be cool to rig this to upload your facebook profile pic automatically everyday.

Re: Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens

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Post by mh_ » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 2:54 AM UTC

dfranke wrote: post #10

This would be a neat way to catch a laptop thief.

I just recently submitted an app called iTried to the Mac app store which was kinda built for this (http://bit.ly/hEDJTw)

iTried listens for screensaver stopped events, and then takes the picture. I disabled tweetpic'ing the picture when submitting to the app store, but will re-enable in an update.