Clever surveillance for your Mac.
Overview
Your Mac can already stop unwanted access out of the box. Sometimes it is desirable, however, to know when someone tries to circumvent these measures. This is where Watchmac comes into play:
Watchmac monitors your Mac for possible infringements. For instance, when someone tries to unlock your screensaver but fails to enter the correct password, Watchmac will record this event and can even take pictures using the built-in (or an externally connected iSight).
Set and Forget
Watchmac is a set-and-forget solution. Just turn it on and leave the rest to Watchmac. It will inform you as seen as anything happens.
A Picture Is Worth
A Thousand Words
Knowing when something potentially dangerous happens is great. But wouldn’t it be even better if you knew what the bad guy looks like? No problem—Watchmac will take pictures using your Mac’s iSight.
Ring a Bell
Recording infringements is great. But playing an alert sound will put the bad guy to flight. Watchmac can do just that.
Get Alerted Everywhere
Not only does Watchmac record and warn about infrignements locally—you can even have an alert email sent to you. So if your Mac gets stolen you can react immediately.
Look Back
Watchmac keeps a history of all infringements that have occured. So you don’t have to react instantly and don’t miss anything either.
Fully Configurable
If you wish, you can make Watchmac work just the way you want it to. Choose what infringements Watchmac will observe and how it will handle them. But if you don’t want to, you need not even change preferences once. It just works—out of the box.
Full Control
Watchmac even integrates with the terminal, so you can control Watchmac from a script. Maybe you want to turn it on and off on a schedule.
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System Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (10.5.4 or later recommended).
- For taking pictures: Integrated or external iSight (works with MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, as well as with iMac).
- For sudden motion detection: MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro or PowerBook G4 (Early 2005) or iBook (Mid 2005).
Watchmac Help
To find help and further information on Watchmac consult the built-in help of Watchmac on your Mac by choosing Watchmac Help from the Help menu in Watchmac or from the More submenu of Watchmac’s menu bar icon. You can also check the bloo7 Knowledge Base.