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DuckCall
DuckCall is a nifty little utility that is a one-trick pony, but it's a pretty cool trick. Every 30 seconds it takes a snapshot with your iSight camera and sets that picture as your iChat or Adium buddy picture. The author notes that it's "very crude, and consists of a PyObjC wrapper round a stand-alone binary (to get the picture from the iSight) and a bunch of AppleScript (to set the picture into iChat / Adium)." As you can see to the right (behold my thoroughly unattractive office bookshelves), it works fine on my MacBook with iChat (I didn't test it with Adium). This is a pretty neat idea for personalizing your iChats when a full video chat is not an option.[Via FreeMacWare]
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Mike Rapin said 11:16AM on 3-02-2007
This is actually a pretty cool app, but, as one of the comments says on the DuckCall site, it does need some preferences and such.
I have spring break coming up... maybe I'll get bored and create such a thing... OH THE MADNESS....
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sxtxixtxcxh said 11:29AM on 3-02-2007
There's a $5 shareware that does streaming buddy icons for iChat from your iSight or even a movie file: http://ichat.pardeike.net/
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