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SurveillanceSaver hit the blogosphere two weeks ago. Boing Boing, Wired, Times Online, Make:, etc wrote about it. my server got 34.000 visits and 5.8 gb traffic this month. a lot of people wrote me emails and sent me contributions to the software.

i started a google code project in order to enable participation to the code:
http://code.google.com/p/surveillancesaver
there i will put all the necessary information, scripts and tools.

the windows version of the screensaver is still not there. dan has no time to write it in .net because of his new job. i tried to create it via python, processing and flash. the flash version works quite well but the code is a mess. i still hope that someone else gets the code snippets and writes the windows version. please contact me!

the OS X version got a new feature: geolocalization. with the help of maxmind’s free geoip database the camera’s ips were mapped with coordinates. it’s really interesting to see where it happens. brian and simone added some code to avoid flickering.

download SurveillanceSaver alpha 1 at
http://code.google.com/p/surveillancesaver/downloads

update:
i had to post two new updates because random in Quartz Composer has a bug. it always starts with the same numbers. thus you saw always the same images. i am now using the seconds of the system time for the base of the random. it improves it but does not solve the problem (apple’s life isn’t random anymore).

update:
now the random bug is really solved.. 1c is the latest version.

mark frauenfelder’s mac runs SurveillanceSaver while he shows his curie engine in BoingBoing TV!

i just ordered my XO laptop and donated one to a student in the third world. unfortunately they do not deliver it to germany. a friend in the usa will send it to me after it arrives. let’s see when i will reveice it and what it will cost me in the end. the dollar is low but shipping and customs are expensive..

i stranded with a rental car in the center of germany in a small village near the A7. the next morning a powerline crashed, the whole village was without energy and i had only credit cards with me. it was unbelievable that you could not even buy a coffee and get money from the bank. future!

the ec cashpoint tried to boot over and over again. it revealed that it’s running windows xp. is there an operation system with more vulnerable points for this purpose? unbelievable.

“We are extremely pleased to publish the very first release of Fritzing, the 0001 Alpha!

This release gives you a very early glance of what Fritzing will enable you to do, so please give it a spin and let us know what you think. It obviously still has a lot of rough edges and might cause some aesthetical pain, but you can already do the whole process from wiring up a little circuit and exporting it to an Arduino shield PCB.

So enjoy it the way you enjoy meeting a new friend: Please say hello at http://fritzing.org/download.”