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Lifehacker script to automate Project 365 with iSight-enabled Macs
Photojojo is a community focused on photography tips, tricks, DIY projects and other kinds of picture-taking goodness. Recently, they introduced Project 365, essentially coining a(nother?) term and offering tips for those take-a-picture-a-day-for-a-year-or-three projects that broke out on the interwebs over the last year or so.Inspired both by this Photojojo post and the recent 'snap a pic of users who commit invalid login attempts' hack, Adam Pash at Lifehacker penned a Photo projects for the New Year post in which he put together a script that can automate this process on iSight-enabled Macs, more or less taking the effort out of your own Project 365. The script can be set to run each time you login (properly, of course) or at a specific time of each day, and Adam includes instructions for tweaking them to your needs. By default, they're set up to snap the pic and save it in ~/project365/pics/, adding a timestamp to the name of each file to help you keep track of everything when you're ready to make your YouTube debut.
I think this is a fantastic idea, and now that I have an iSight in both my MacBook and iMac, I think I might actually take a crack at this myself. A big thanks to Adam for putting together such a cool script, and be sure to check out Photojojo's original Project 365 post for tips, motivation and ideas on what to do with 365 pictures of you and/or your stuff.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Thomas said 9:05AM on 12-20-2006
I find it kind of annoying having the Terminal open (and stay open) and ask me if I want to take a snapshot every time the command is issued. So I wrote an AppleScript that could be set as a login item. That way, the process is totally transparent.
The script goes as follows:
on run
do shell script "#!/bin/bash
cd ~/project365
pwd
\\exec/isightcapture pics/$(date +\\%Y)_$(date +\\%m)_$(date +\\%d)_$(date +\\%H)$(date +\\%M).png
exit"
end run
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Michael said 9:17AM on 12-20-2006
I've been automating this process with iPhoto and iPhoto Keywords, ImageMagick and some apple script. If anybody is interessted, contact me at http://dailyfratze.de/michael (my daily foto project) or misi@planet-punk.de.
Nevertheless, this isightcapture thingy sounds promising.
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Jesse said 6:26PM on 12-23-2006
I only have one question for thomas--could you provide directions for using your script? I am new to macs and not sure how/where/what to do with your script. thanks!
Jesse
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