[zubro]

wanna buy one.
wanna use it as a DV-cam with my iBook.
what do you do with yours?
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[Vader�s Pinch of Death]

Internet porn?

[mdc]

i chat with my friends in london, via ichat and yahoo messenger, friends in south africa, yahoo messenger.

and i do the odd bit of random filming in imovie.

[Crusoe]

With my powerbook I can continue to chat with friends and take a dump at the a same time.

"I'm getting an echo, are you in the bathroom again", "hmm bare ankles he must be wiping"



Note to self: turn off iSight before going to the bathroom

[mdc]

please tell me you are joking.

a friend of mine was taking a dump while i was instant messaging him, that was scary enough. but video. that's where i draw the line

on a side note... i think it was this forum, someone named their wireless network 'freedom' since that is the only word they could use to explain surfing the internet and taking a dump at the same time.

[uberwrensch]

I want to vid chat with a few of my PC friends and we've tried using the iChat 2.1 Beta but haven't had any luck. I *thought* that using YM for video was fine but that the audio did not work. Is that correct?

Uber

[mdc]

correctly, unfortunately, there is no audio for yahoo. and it is _really_ slow.

[zubro]

Originally posted by Vader�s Pinch of Death:
Internet porn?

nop.

[zubro]

so, om the chat side it is pretty dark...
can ONLY use iChat and see other macs?... is that it?

And for the "pure" video fun (Irun around with the cam connected to my iBook stuff) is it cool?
I would actually use it mostly for this purpose..

-Merci- for your comments!

[Casper Crane]

it's for video chatting. it works with iChat and now AIM 5.1 on Windows as far as I know, although i haven't been able to get it to work with minimal effort.

if you want to get into video, get a used DV cam. you can use it for chatting too, but you'll have a real camera. i bet you could get a decent one for about the price of an iSight.

[mdc]

some new info i discovered today, regarding yahoo messenger.

i have always gotten pitiful framerates with yahoo messenger when using video. i read on their website about how the new version has super webcam and you get 20fps. yeah right, i was getting .3fps.

i dug deeper into their site and found that port 5100 has to be mapped. i mapped it and tried to connect a video chat with someone and my fps went up to around 8. nothing close to ichat's ~22fps, but a whole lot smoother than the .3fps i used to be getting.

just incase this will help someone.

[angelmb]

to dribble with its beauty

[Paco500]

I mostly keep mine in it's case.

I use it every now and again to Video Chat w/ my Parents so thet can see the grandkids.

It was a gift, so I don't feel it was a waste, but I don't use it anywhere near as often as I thought I would.

[pooandwee]

I work for a software/web development company. Most of the programmers (myself included) do most of their work from home/offsite and only go in once a week for a meeting.

We all have iSights so we can talk to each other if we need to. We have one set up in the board room too and if clients are over for a pitch or whatever we set up a projector in there and have the client talk to our "development expert" via video conference. Clients love that stuff!!! They feel like we are at the bleeding edge of tech when really we spent like AU$500 plus internet transfer. Suckers

I just can't wait until iChat can have a video conference between 3 - 5 people!!! (I can't see 6+ video streams being too viable, not in fair old Oz anyways) That will rule!!

[angelmb]

Originally posted by pooandwee:
...and have the client talk to our "development expert" via video conference. Clients love that stuff!!! They feel like we are at the bleeding edge of tech when really we spent like AU$500 plus internet transfer. Suckers

ha ha, respect its ignorance, they are, after all, the clients of your 'space age tech' company!

[cube-dude]

I'm getting an iSight for my birthday, and plan to use iDisk with EvoCam as a home surveillance webcam. Muhahahahahahaha ...