Sleepwatcher Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Terminally Geeky: Deadline reminders using Growl, sleepwatcher, and GNU date

by TJ Luoma (Feb 18th, 2011)

When I have a large deadline looming, I like to keep track of how many days I have left. I've tried Dashboard widgets, iPad apps and just about anything else you could think of, but they all have failed for one simple reason: they require me to check them. I can go days or weeks without triggering ...

Timelapse of iSight wakeup captures

by Mike Schramm (Aug 29th, 2007)

A few months back, we wrote about reader Dylan's iSight autocapture project-- he rigged up the code to have his iSight on his MacBook Pro snap a photo every time the lid was opened (and even released all of his work as open source). At the time, he mentioned eventually combining all of the photos ...