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Monday, July 14, 2003

Preliminary Thoughts on the iSight Here is an unorganized jumble of thoughts about the iSight: Its the 1st webcam worth owning.  Period the end.  The device is just plain wonderful. If you have any errors making it work then you should just re-install OSX.  I couldn't have made this work without Francois' patience and support.  Thx man. iChatAV is quite good.  Apple did a nice job. www.evological.com makes it a real uploading webcam.  Thanks to the person who recommended this to me (and I can't remember your blog; sorry). Performance on iChat AV can pull down the entire machine.  I actually recommend dumping video often and just using the audio portion.  That works well. iChat AV needs a peer to peer option so it doesn't go over the AIM network iChat AV needs a secure option for encrypted communications (remember -- iChat AV isn't free; you have to buy Panther when its available to get it) There needs to be a simple command & keystroke for "Save a Jpeg Right Now So I can email it to a friend".  If there is I can't find it.  And don't even mention to me the abortion that is grab. Full screen mode is cool. Limit your bandwidth to 500K. iSight makes a classic webcam app like Yahoo IM look like a Model T I need to work out better lighting to use the camera well.  So will you I bet. Sleep mode on a laptop is just plain lame when you use iChat and you're not giving the system regular keyboard input Working shirtless in the summer is inappropriate with iChat.  Keep a light shirt handy for those off the cuff conferences. Overall?  Highly recommended.  Francois and I are using this more and more instead of the phone.  10:33:10 AM  Google It!  comment []