Change your iChat picture based on status
I have a small AppleScript that monitors my iChat status and changes my picture based on that status. The script needs to run in the background, but it’s got a pretty small footprint. If you know of a way to make it even smaller, feel free to let me know.
iChatStatusImage
It’s very simple, unzip the archive and replace the JPG files in the folder with JPG files of your choosing. I recommend keeping the images to around 100?É‚Äî100 pixels in size. iChat will resize them to 28?É‚Äî28. It is very important you have four JPG files in the same folder as the iChatStatusImage application:
available.jpg
away.jpg
idle.jpg
offline.jpg
If you don’t the application will die, It’s not fancy enough to be graceful. Double click the application to start it, or add it to your startup items to have it run when you log in. It will run in the background, so if you want to quit it you will need to do so using Activity Monitor or the Terminal. If you open the application in AppleScript Studio and make a change it will no longer be a background app. To make it a background app again you will need to run the application through Drop Script Backgrounder, available here.