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12:09 - As long as you didn't kiss your screen at midnight
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/07/20/iSightLove.html
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Here's a little geekiness for the New Year: an article written a little while ago by Nitrozac and Snaggy, creator of The Joy of Tech, covering all aspects of getting the most out of your iSight.
How many times do you do it a month? Oh I know, I know, it used to be every day; sometimes even two or three times a night! Alas, those passionate feelings have probably faded a little with time, and that feverish desire you once felt has moved into the comfortable blahs, or worse, you barely think of each other with techno-lust anymore.
Admit it. You are completely bored with your iSight. Your impulsive, giddy love affair has all but dried up, now that the reality of video chatting has settled in. To paraphrase the band Talking Heads, you may find yourself in front of a beautiful geekosphere, and you may find yourself on some beautiful bandwidth, but you may ask yourself: where is my useful device? Is this my beautiful iSight? How did I get here? My God! What have I done?
Blast! I know what song they're talking about.
Since the article was written, iChat has acquired an AppleScript interface, making some of the hacks unnecessary; and Tiger brings not only super-slick multi-way video chat, but also has little features like a "Current iTunes Track" setting for your status message. That's the thing about Apple software: it's always being improved. There's almost nothing they let stagnate. About the only perpetually languishing Apple app is AppleWorks, and it looks like they're finally about to do something about it...
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Brian Tiemann
