I was looking for something like JScreenSpy for monitoring my laptop’s usage. Unfortunately, there isnt something around except JScreenSpy and a portion of JScreenSpy rewritten in Python (pyScreenSpy). More to my disappointment, I found no source code for the project.

So, I thought I could write something myself and released “SnapMan” yesterday. https://sourceforge.net/projects/snapman/

Here goes the description of the project

SnapMan is a tiny java program with an integrated timer (opensymphony quartz). It takes snapshots of your desktop in regular intervals and saves it into a specified folder. Intervals and target folder is made configurable. Intervales are all Cron/At compatible.

The code is released under GPL. This is my first “public” code. So, please let me know if i need to improve (or tell me i am nowhere).  All constructive and destructive comments are welcome.

I will probably be writing a Cron expression generator this weekend because i find it very difficult to pick up.  I specially like the Gnome Scheduler interface (Python) with immediate translations to plain english.

I am also planning to make the target folder of the pictures encrypted (any pointers will be highly appreciated)