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How to spy on my room with isight?
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May 5, 2004, 10:59 PM
 
I want to be able to launch my isight camera and see into my room on my mac.

(to explain i am going to remote in from work and turn on my isight)

how can i do this


to simplify: I want to see myself on my screen when sitting at my mac.


THANKS!!!
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May 5, 2004, 11:20 PM
 
Get Evo Cam (do a google search). I use it to spy with my iSight outside through a window so I can see who's at the door like a friend or some bible thumper who just won't quit talking no matter how many times I say that I catholic and don't want to become Luthran or Morman
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May 5, 2004, 11:42 PM
 

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May 6, 2004, 01:45 PM
 
May be slightly unethical but I suspected my maid was slacking off. Here's what I did....

1. Set up Evocam pointing into the living room
2. Put motion detectors in the software on the doors (but not the windows)
3. Got it to email a photo to my work account every time a motion sensor was set off
4. Went to work and set a filter on my account to route these emails to a specific folder
5. Discovered maid was working for 30 mins and charging me for 4 hours.
6. Fired maid
7. Got new one
8. Lived happily ever after in a clean house!

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May 6, 2004, 10:57 PM
 
Originally posted by Jordan:
May be slightly unethical but I suspected my maid was slacking off. Here's what I did....

1. Set up Evocam pointing into the living room
2. Put motion detectors in the software on the doors (but not the windows)
3. Got it to email a photo to my work account every time a motion sensor was set off
4. Went to work and set a filter on my account to route these emails to a specific folder
5. Discovered maid was working for 30 mins and charging me for 4 hours.
6. Fired maid
7. Got new one
8. Lived happily ever after in a clean house!

Cheers,

Jordan
Oh my god, you live in England and have a maid, is she french?
Strangely my Ayi (chinese for maid/cleaning lady) saw me naked yesterday.
I thought she was a burglar and jumped out at her brandishing a kitchen knife.
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May 7, 2004, 01:10 AM
 
Originally posted by Jordan:

5. Discovered maid was working for 30 mins and charging me for 4 hours.
Good move

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