Filed under: Humor, Hacks, Internet Tools
Time Magazine 'Person of the Year' cover redux, courtesy of that iSight trick
As you may know, Time Magazine recently declared you as the person of the year. While this is a mighty nice gesture on their part, Dan Wood has created a redux of the cover for iSight-enabled Mac users that truly resembles you as Time's award-winning person of the year. He's using that slick iSight trick that can turn on your iSight camera and place its feed on a web page, but remember: it isn't a security flaw, it's an actual feature. The trick doesn't send any video from your iSight over the web, it simply plays that video back through your web browser locally.As a side note: do any Mac users out there have a non-iSight webcam they can try this trick with? It would be interesting to see if it works only with Apple's camera or if everyone else can play along. That way, users with some kind of webcam have an easier way of adding themselves to Flickr's personoftheyear tag.
[via Ranchero's blog]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Thomas Mc. said 4:48PM on 12-29-2006
It seems to work with my OrangeMicro iBot.
I never got to see myself in the Times cover. It was all wrinkled up by time I got a hold of my copy.
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Marvin said 4:48PM on 12-29-2006
It is working with a Logitech quickcam :-)
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innocentchild said 6:36PM on 12-29-2006
works with an iMage (www.ecamm.com/mac/imagewebcam) webcam just fine.
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Bryce said 6:43PM on 12-29-2006
This can also be accomplished with Flash.
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BobMac said 9:03PM on 12-29-2006
That still just freaks me out.
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dstaley said 1:33AM on 12-30-2006
Ok, I tried this on 6 or 7 Windows PCs, froze the browser in every one of them. Just a warning!
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Brian Whitney said 12:43AM on 3-29-2007
Works with XBox 360 Vision Web Cam!
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