Repair Spy

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        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.

#!/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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• Apple
• bash
• OSX