{"id":1873,"date":"2003-10-23T18:47:59","date_gmt":"2003-10-24T08:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/24\/new-toy-isight\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:09:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:09:57","slug":"new-toy-isight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/23\/new-toy-isight\/","title":{"rendered":"New toy: iSight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7135,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/isight&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/isight&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13065,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/forums.macrumors.com\\\/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=30769&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11856,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ichat&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090827133021\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com:80\\\/ichat\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:00:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 12:39:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 12:39:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8667,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/messenger.yahoo.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20180718010747\\\/https:\\\/\\\/messenger.yahoo.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.yahoo.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 03:25:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 04:17:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 14:46:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 05:54:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 19:37:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 19:37:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/10\/meisight.jpg\" title=\"iSight screencapture\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iSight screencapture\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/10\/meisight-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"122\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I went and got myself a new toy today &#8212; Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/isight\/\" title=\"Apple - Hardware - iSight\">iSight<\/a> webcam. I haven&#8217;t done a ton of playing with it so far, but from what I have done, it&#8217;s quite the nifty little addition to my arsenal of toys.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=30769\" title=\"Mac Forums - iSight packaging\">packaging<\/a> is up to Apple&#8217;s usual standards of excellence. The box unfolds in half to reveal all the pieces: the iSight itself, a plastic carrying case, and three types of stands (one for sticking to the top of a CRT, one for sticking to the back of an LCD screen, and one for clipping to the top of a PowerBook). A FireWire cable is included, packaged underneath the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Setting it up is incredibly simple &#8212; plug it in. Instantly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ichat\/\" title=\"Apple - iChat AV\">iChat<\/a> recognizes it, and you&#8217;re ready to go!<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have anyone online who I could test a two-way video chat with, but I was able to test a one-way video chat (me broadcasting, them receiving) with audio going both directions, and it worked fine. The iSight has a microphone built in, so no extra cables or pieces are required to get the audio portion of the chat working.<\/p>\n<p>After playing with iChat for a bit, I bounced into <a href=\"http:\/\/messenger.yahoo.com\/\" title=\"Yahoo! Messenger\">Yahoo! Messenger<\/a> for a few moments. While Y!M doesn&#8217;t have anywhere <em>near<\/em> the speed or quality that iChat does, and doesn&#8217;t support voice chat on the Mac, it was able to recognize the iSight and allow for video\/text chatting with other Y!M users without a hitch.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I&#8217;m quite impressed. It may not be the most practical toy that I could have picked up &#8212; especially with so few other iChat\/iSight users in my sphere of influence at the moment &#8212; but it&#8217;ll be quite handy to have around at those times when I can take advantage of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I went and got myself a new toy today &mdash; Apple&#8217;s iSight webcam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2043],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-personal","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}