If every time you leave your Mac to your child, co-worker, partner or anyone else they call you to ask you why doesn't that or the other work, or it does not directly tell you anything and returns it to you showing operational problems or configuration changes, you ask yourself the same old question, why don't I create a guest account every time I leave the Mac to someone?
Whatever the reason, you never finished creating it, if you want know what happens when a third person uses your computer, the timeLAPSE app is an excellent helper. timeLAPSE takes care of taking a screenshot every so often (between 3 and 24 hours), allowing us to create a final video where all the captures are shown. In this way we can easily know what they have played so that our equipment does not work as when we left it.
TimeLAPSE Features
- To prevent the user who uses the Mac where we have installed the application from closing it, timeLAPSE allows us to establish a password, both to access the application and to close it and stop recording screenshots.
- The time span between captures, we can set it from 3 seconds to 24 hours. If we set it every 3 seconds, every 3 seconds a screen capture will be automatically taken.
- timeLAPSE allows us to establish the name that the captures will carry.
- In addition, it also allows us to select the directory where we want to store them, any directory on our Mac.
- With all the images that we have captured, the application allows us to generate a video, where we can establish the number of captures that we want to be displayed per second, in order to be able to more easily check the results of the captures.
- Once the video has been created, we can automatically delete all the captures that have become part of the video.
- timeLAPSE allows us to mute the sound that the equipment makes every time it captures.
timeLAPSE has a regular price of 2,99 euros, but for a limited time we can download it for free, as long as the developer has not changed the price at the time of reading this article.