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I'm about a week away from becoming the proud owner of a Macbook, and can't
wait! Anyway, I just had an idea for a great, fun iSight application, and
wanted to see whether there was any way to do it already available.
Basically, I'm an MSN user, and don't have any friends on other IM networks
(it's pretty much the only one the majority of people in the UK use) so I'll
probably be using MSN messenger on my Mac. What I wanted was, a program that
woudld automatically take your photo at the beginning of a messaging session,
or say, once every day, and then automatically set it as your IM display
picture, overwriting the previous session's photograph. This would be a good
feature, I feel, as people would be able to see the exact image of the friend
they're talking to as they looked right then, with a new haircut or clothes or
location. Obviously, you could just take your own photo every day and set it
as your display pic, but that sounds like more effort than I'm comfortable
with!
So does anybody know of a program that will do this already? Or if not, does
anybody know how to write one that will?! I'm a complete n00vice at
programming, so no chance I can just do it myself, although I would lend a hand
where I could. Here's one more possible application for a program like this,
just to get your imaginations going... Imagine if you could set the program
not to overwrite the previous photo, but to archive them, using the date as a
filename, and taking a photograph of you in the same position every day, which
you could then make into an animation showing your 'evolution' over time?! I
think it'd look quite good!
wait! Anyway, I just had an idea for a great, fun iSight application, and
wanted to see whether there was any way to do it already available.
Basically, I'm an MSN user, and don't have any friends on other IM networks
(it's pretty much the only one the majority of people in the UK use) so I'll
probably be using MSN messenger on my Mac. What I wanted was, a program that
woudld automatically take your photo at the beginning of a messaging session,
or say, once every day, and then automatically set it as your IM display
picture, overwriting the previous session's photograph. This would be a good
feature, I feel, as people would be able to see the exact image of the friend
they're talking to as they looked right then, with a new haircut or clothes or
location. Obviously, you could just take your own photo every day and set it
as your display pic, but that sounds like more effort than I'm comfortable
with!
So does anybody know of a program that will do this already? Or if not, does
anybody know how to write one that will?! I'm a complete n00vice at
programming, so no chance I can just do it myself, although I would lend a hand
where I could. Here's one more possible application for a program like this,
just to get your imaginations going... Imagine if you could set the program
not to overwrite the previous photo, but to archive them, using the date as a
filename, and taking a photograph of you in the same position every day, which
you could then make into an animation showing your 'evolution' over time?! I
think it'd look quite good!
I've got to wait until June to get mine, oh well at least Leopard will be out by then.
