Command-line iSight Capture

Here is a small utility that I find useful for grabbing a look at what is going on near my Mac when I’m not around. Download ZIP.

Basically, you execute it with a command like this:

$ isightGrab-arch > snapshot.png

I can access it securely via the lightweight SSH protocol when I’m not around, which makes this a useful little utility. The code is open-source and is part of the larger “iPhone Remote” project.

The source code can be found at their SVN repository. The only differences are that I compiled this for both X86 and PPC architectures, and I removed the mimetype header transforming it from a CGI to a CLI program.

Have fun!