Comments on: An addition to… Take iSight snapshots during invalid login attempts

By: Kostakis

Kostakis — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:09:47 +0000

This is perfect! Very nice job, well designed, well explained. Well done! Works PERFECT! Thumbs up

By: k huffine

k huffine — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:56:52 +0000

Hi..How do u delete the older pics that the isight has taken…I try to delete them but they come back like a boomerang. Thanks Ken

By: Don Lapre Lenny

Don Lapre Lenny — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:17:35 +0000

Thanks to you for giving the very needed informations to one and all…really you are genius !

Don Lapre Lenny
webmaster@donlapresite.com
http://www.donlapresite.com

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Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:11:58 +0000

[...] Automator Script for Image Viewing [...]

By: William Gibb

William Gibb — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:14:53 +0000

Each time I learn something new on OS X, I love the OS more and more, especially with aspect to the automation. Hell, now I know how to make folder actions easily. Doing what grant posted works great, but I wanted a little more. I took the script that Automator exported and added to it from the show new items action. Here is the action I’ve got running on /var/log/authfail

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
tell application “Finder”
activate
open this_folder
reveal the added_items
end tell
tell application “wgibb:Library:Workflows:Applications:Folder Actions:imageopen.app”
open added_items
end tell
end adding folder items to

By: Smactron

Smactron — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:42:28 +0000

This is awesome! Thanks for the tip, grant. Now, can someone make a full package for all of this so that a newb like me (although I eventually figured it out) would only have to hit Install and have this all done automatically for him/her? A quick suggestion: could there be leading zeroes for the date/time if one is only one digit long? And could it sort by decreasing unit of time? I’d rather have the formula “[username] [year] [month] [day] [hour] [minute ][second]” so that I could sort by filename and still be sorted by date. What do you think?

By: matt

matt — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:32:18 +0000

William, I think Grant answered your question. That looks great. I love all the cool ways to automate stuff on the mac.

By: grant

grant — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:25:32 +0000

I found a pretty good solution using folder actions.

1. enable folder actions (right-click on a folder in Finder)
2. make an Automator workflow with only one action: Open Images in Preview
3. File → Save As Plug-in…
4. give it a name
5. change ‘Plug-in for’ to ‘Folder Actions’
6. choose ‘Other…’ for ‘Attached to Folder’
7. hit ⌃⇧G and type ‘/var/log/authfail’
8. click Save

Seems to work properly, and it only opens new images.

By: William Gibb

William Gibb — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:09:39 +0000

This app is nice. However, how would I make it run whenever I login from a screensaver? I added it to my login items as described in the post, and currently it only works when I login to the machine (as it should). Is there a way to make this work when I login from screensaver/resume the computer from sleeping? I rarely, if ever, shutdown my MBP or logout, since I’m a student and often moving about. Currently I’ve got folder actions enabled on /private/var/logs/authfail to run the show new items action, which does work to open /var/log/authfail, but doesn’t automatically open the images. I’m not sure how to open the images using applescript or otherwise.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:15:13 +0000

doh!

Replace ‘username’ and ‘jim’ from my last response with your username.