Gumshoe

Gumshoe is a small software application whose purpose is to help you monitor users’ computer activity by capturing images of the desktop. The utility is able to automatically take screenshots every 10 seconds.

The tool reveals a minimalistic layout on your screen that includes several buttons for helping you control the photo capturing process. A help manual is included in the package and provides short descriptions about its capabilities.

Gumshoe automatically saves the captured pictures in the ‘Pics’ subdirectory of the application’s main folder. The snapshots are exported to JPG file format. A timer is shown in the main window that lets you know how much time has passed since you activated the capturing mode.

What’s more, you can manually view images using an external utility. You can also preview the snapshots via the built-in slideshow mode and delete all taken photos when you close Gumshoe.

You are given the freedom to filter the pictures by several preset dates or jump to a user-defined date. Gumshoe implements several buttons in the GUI for helping you control the slideshow. You may go to the next or previous image in the slideshow and adjust the playing speed by fine-tuning the built-in slider.

On the downside, Gumshoe lets you save the screenshots only to JPG file format so you cannot export them to other formats like BMP, PNG, TIG, or GIF. You are not allowed to configure the saving directory, assign hotkeys, and set a custom time interval when the program takes screenshots.

All things considered, Gumshoe provides a simplistic software solution for helping you automatically take snapshots. On the downside, the app hasn’t been updated for a while so it may cause compatibility issues on newer operating systems like Windows 8.