Macworld Secrets Geek Factor: I Spy with iSight

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Feature: Geek Factor Podcast #3: Mac
Mods

Feature: Geek Factor Podcast #3: Mac
Mods 06/24/2005 04:52 PM
How some Mac and PC users modify and replace their Mac cases and components, legendary Mac case modder Kent "riscx" Salas. [26 minutes]

Macworld secrets: Mac 911

Macworld secrets: Mac 911 12/13/2003 03:43 AM
Do you rue the range of your Graphite Base Station, seek softer cell-phone ring tones, find PC viruses vexing, or loathe the limitations of your iTunes music library? There's no need to feel hemmed in by transitory travails when help is at hand. This month's Mac 911 gives you a beneficial boost over each of these barriers.

Macworld secrets: Mac OS X Hints

Macworld secrets: Mac OS X Hints 12/02/2003 12:29 AM
Take a look at some ways to see more in Finder windows, tweak your iChat messages so they contain multiple lines, print pages to PDF, assign multiple genres to iTunes tracks, know how much is in your Trash, take advantage of Unix's redirection command, train Mail only once, and more.

Macworld Secrets: Of Macs and MIDI

Macworld Secrets: Of Macs and MIDI 06/25/2004 10:39 AM
Ask a typical Mac user the meaning of the term MIDI, and you'll probably get one of two responses: "You mean those cheesy music files you find on the cheesiest of Web sites?" or "Huh?" MIDI has gotten something of a bad rap, thanks to the Web. But in fact, it's an important music-making tool. The announcement of GarageBand earlier this year has brought the MIDI discussion to mainstream Mac users -- and for good reason. Thanks to this marvelous application, even people with the barest modicum of musical talent have turned their minds (and ears) to the tuneful potential of the Mac. If you want to gain a better understanding of what makes GarageBand groove, knowing a bit about MIDI helps. We'll provide some background and show you how to use MIDI files to expand GarageBand's repertoire.

Macworld Secrets: Playing Live

Macworld Secrets: Playing Live 02/10/2004 02:43 AM

Macworld Secrets Create: What's in a
Font?

Macworld Secrets Create: What's in a
Font? 04/10/2004 02:29 AM
Gone are the days when you knew what you were getting when you bought a font -- back when fonts could hold about 225 characters (PostScript Type 1s, for example). Now we're in the era of OpenType fonts, which can contain tens of thousands of characters and even do tricks with these characters, such as automatically substituting one for another.

Macworld Secrets: .Mac Travel Tips

Macworld Secrets: .Mac Travel Tips 06/29/2004 10:56 AM
Apple's .Mac subscription service offers a wide array of functions for Mac OS X users, from an e-mail account and the easiest Web-based photo-sharing around to virus busters, backup software, and server space for storing your files. But many people don't realize just how much they can do with that $99 subscription. A lot of .Mac's functions are hidden in its Web site, so subscribers must dig to discover them all. The .Mac service can even keep you organized when you're between computers, and those computers don't have to be Macs. Whether you're traveling across the world or across town, .Mac can help keep your contacts, e-mail, calendars, and files accessible, but not too accessible, without much planning.

Macworld Secrets: Animate Your World

Macworld Secrets: Animate Your World 02/10/2004 02:43 AM

Macworld Secrets Help Desk: Mac OS X
Hints

Macworld Secrets Help Desk: Mac OS X
Hints 04/13/2004 03:06 AM
Learn a bit more about the Unix side of OS X, including hints on using Terminal to convert manuals to PostScript, copy information to the Clipboard, convert line breaks in text files, identify what's in a given file, and open the current directory folder i

Macworld Secrets: Colorful Photoshop

Macworld Secrets: Colorful Photoshop 07/07/2004 11:03 AM
Adobe Photoshop CS is possibly the best program for manipulating digital photographs. But it's also a capable program for coloring scanned artwork. This is especially valuable because it's easier to draw on paper, with a pencil or a pen, than it is to sketch on screen, if only because you can see an entire piece of paper without zooming or panning. And it can be easier to add colors in Photoshop than it is to hassle with conventional paints or assemble fussy mechanicals. I'll show you how to apply color to scanned line art in Photoshop. Throughout this process, you won't harm a single stroke in the original drawing. It really is the best of all worlds.

Macworld Secrets: Animatics in Final Cut
Pro 4

Macworld Secrets: Animatics in Final Cut
Pro 4 12/22/2003 05:17 PM
Animatics are animated storyboards -- usually set to music, with sound effects and temporary dialogue -- that professional filmmakers, commercial agencies, and special-effects artists use to visualize the look and tempo of their projects. To create your own animatic, all you need is a set of storyboard drawings, a batch-capable scanner, and a Mac equipped with Apple's $999 Final Cut Pro 4. With Final Cut Pro 4's RT Extreme feature, you can preview the animatic in real time as you build it. And when you're finished, you can output the animatic from Final Cut Pro 4 to tape, DVD, or a Web site.

Macworld secrets: Hands on: Easy Mac
maintenance

Macworld secrets: Hands on: Easy Mac
maintenance 12/15/2003 05:47 PM
Just like your car, your Mac needs routine maintenance in order to run smoothly. Unlike your car, your Mac can perform some of this maintenance on its own. Two important tasks to perform regularly are Disk Utility's Repair Permissions and OS X's Unix maintenance scripts.

Macworld Secrets: Mobile Mac Laptop
Lockdown

Macworld Secrets: Mobile Mac Laptop
Lockdown 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
Laptop owners adore PowerBooks and iBooks for their snazzy looks, light weight, and excellent resale value. Unfortunately, thieves like them for the very same reasons. And the person who steals your laptop not only nabs your hardware but also may gain access to financial records, corporate data, credit card numbers, and other sensitive information. There are ways to protect your computer and your data. Whether you lash down your laptop with steel cables or apply military-grade data encryption across your hard drive, protecting your laptop takes some effort -- but it may be easier than you expect.

Macworld Secrets: Mobile Mac Highway
Fidelity

Macworld Secrets: Mobile Mac Highway
Fidelity 06/18/2004 09:29 AM
Whether you're commuting to work or headingacross country, nothing beats music for passing the time. Until a few years ago, audio CDs were the only way to get digital sound in your car. But now, thanks to portable audio players, satellite radios, and MP3-compatible CD gear, it's easier than ever to listen to clean, digital music on the road (see "MP3s for the Road” for tips on burning MP3 discs). For a fee, satellite radio receivers let you tap into 24-7 digital programming. If you'd rather listen to your own tunes and playlists -- and many more songs than a CD can hold -- an iPod is the way to go. Mobile installations range from basic dashboard mounts to stealthy setups that conceal the iPod and let you control it remotely. There's a system for just about any car.

Macworld Secrets Digital Hub: Give
iMovie New Powers

Macworld Secrets Digital Hub: Give
iMovie New Powers 04/24/2004 03:40 AM
Apple's iMovie 4 includes dozens of visual effects,scene transitions, and title formats. Used tastefully and sparingly, these extras add finesse to a movie and lend a professional touch. But some projects require something a little more creative than what iMovie's built-in tools can provide.

Cooling Factor and Cool Factor in One
Package

Cooling Factor and Cool Factor in One
Package 04/01/2005 03:21 AM
Glenn Fleishman (~270 words)

The Plasticsmith has done it again. The company that brought the newly minted Mac mini its own "mini skirt," a plastic riser with an optional glow, have added a new stand to their line-up: the mini hover skirt.

BugMe! Notepad for Palm OS Earns Highest
Rating 5 "Geek Heads" from Geek.com

BugMe! Notepad for Palm OS Earns Highest
Rating 5 "Geek Heads" from Geek.com 07/22/2004 02:33 AM
Geek.com, a popular Web site for computing and gadgetry enthusiasts, has published a review of Electric Pocket’s BugMe! Notepad for Palm OS 5.x—with the reviewer hailing it as “an application that I absolutely cannot do without.” [PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]

Replay Radio geek solutions to geek
problems

Replay Radio geek solutions to geek
problems 09/21/2004 06:38 AM

The building I work in does not receive Radio receptions real good. The guys and I in the office like to listen to a particular radio show and we knocked our heads together for a while trying to figure out how to improve the reception. Fixing the reception problem proved to be impossible but we did find a geeks way to fix the problem.

I purchased Replay Radio and set it up at home to record the network stream of the program. It saves the recorded stream in MP3 format every 30 minutes and dumps it in a directory that I have mapped to a FTP server. I have a standard FTP client running on my desktop that downloads the MP3 to my laptop which is connected to the network and we load the MP3 up and listen to the program time delay.

My work does not allow for streaming audio. So to avoid confusion I asked permission to do this via our IT department and promised to keep the file sizes under control. They thought it was cool and gave the thumbs up. It worked out so well that several departments do the same thing and we have 2-3 national talk radio programs to listen to each day. Albeit time delay but it works. [Replay Radio]

" Replay Radio is an incredibly easy way to record radio broadcasts. It's like a "TiVo™ DVR" for the radio. Just pick your favorite radio show, or select a station and a time range, and Replay Radio records it for you. Hundreds of shows and stations are pre-programmed, making recording as easy as point and click."

Macworld: Macworld: New technology from
Runtime Revolution

Macworld: Macworld: New technology from
Runtime Revolution 01/06/2004 04:25 AM
"We're constantly developing new features for Revolution, to meet our developers' needs for creating robust applications with up-to-the-minute functionality," said Kevin Miller, CEO of Runtime Revolution. "Now, we've started bringing our developers into the design cycle at the earliest possible stage."

Got iSight?

Got iSight? 03/06/2004 02:02 AM
I do, now. iSight Looks like a really sweet toy. Whee ;) Haven’t tested video conferencing yet, since I don’t...

Doing more with the iSight

Doing more with the iSight 01/16/2004 01:01 PM

The iSight came close to being the biggest disappointments of my new Mac experience. It looks gorgeous and appears to integrate seamlessly with iChat AV, although as I don't currently have any contacts with an iSight I haven't been able to try video conferencing yet. The dissapointment is that there was no clear way of using it to capture video directly - a feature that I reasonably expected from iMovie. Apple's knowledge base knocks the point home pretty clearly:

iSight is intended for use as a video conferencing camera, and does not output the DV format necessary for capturing video with iMovie.

Well that sucks. Thanksfully before writing the thing off completely I did some Googling and turned up this excellent O'Reilly article: Ma king Movies with the Apple iSight, which shows how Apple's free QuickTime Broadcaster software can be used to capture footage straight from the iSight to disk.

Surprisingly for Apple the procedure is far from transparent, but at least it's possible.

Oh, and the biggest disappointment? The fabled backlit keyboard, which tends to be drowned out by the light from the laptop screen making it more of a gimmick than a useful feature.

Sex and the iSight

Sex and the iSight 07/23/2004 01:08 AM
Is your relationship with your iSight in a rut? Don't despair! Nitrozac and I are back on MacDevCenter to show you How to Fall in Love with Your iSight, Again. Consider us your personal tech-therapists, helping bring you and your gorgeous hardware back together, with advice on iSight apps and add-ons. So fire up your iSight and rekindle your tech passion... it's going to be like a second honeymoon. :-)

iSight, OSCON day 1

iSight, OSCON day 1 07/26/2004 02:30 PM
I brought my iSight. I wish there was more bandwidth here so I could do something fun with it ... Hmn. Yesterday we went to see Life of Brian with David Wheeler, his brother Alex (if I recall correctly), Casey and a bunch others. It was great, naturally. When we got there we thought we had lost Vani's stack of cards, so we rushed in a cab back to the hotel to find them and then get our rental out...

iSight Updater

iSight Updater 04/14/2005 10:29 PM
Update features enhanced IIDC compliance, improved auto exposure and auto white balance, and more.

Control Your iSight

Control Your iSight 12/18/2003 01:05 PM

Using iSight As A Webcam?

Using iSight As A Webcam? 06/21/2004 10:37 AM

iSight saves the day

iSight saves the day 12/17/2003 01:17 PM
After having her office broken into and cameras and tripods stolen for a third time, a BYU staff member decided to take matters into her own hands. She mounted an iSight camera on a concealed iBook, and waited for the thieves to strike again. Two 25 year old Brighman Young University students were caught on camera breaking into the office again, and were subsequently identified and arrested. The two are part of a major theft ring that has accounted for the theft of tens of thousands...

iPod And iSight Don't Mix

iPod And iSight Don't Mix 07/21/2004 09:48 PM
If you're using both a new iPod (Click Wheel) and an iSight camera on your Mac's FireWire bus, your Mac may freeze. By Christopher Breen, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Other News: New iSight

Other News: New iSight 08/20/2004 12:59 AM
Apple isn't talking about why its iSight disappeared from the market, but AppleInsider tells the story.

Have Your iSight Tested

Have Your iSight Tested 12/30/2003 06:25 PM
Apple's iSight video camera is not a new idea but it is a solid piece of tech that does a simple job extremely well. By Aoife White (ElectricNews.net via MyAppleMenu)

iRecordNow: iSight As A Camcorder

iRecordNow: iSight As A Camcorder 10/31/2003 01:39 AM
"The goal of Boinx iRecordNow is to turn your iSight into a digital camcorder that is as easy to use as a real world camcorder." (MacNN via MyAppleMenu)

iSight 1.0.3 update released; Mac OS X
v10.3.9 soon?

iSight 1.0.3 update released; Mac OS X
v10.3.9 soon? 04/15/2005 01:15 AM
Apple has posted iSight Updater 1.0.3, a software update for the company's iChat AV-compatible web cam...

ISight to iPod, redux

ISight to iPod, redux 01/07/2004 05:39 PM
Graham Parks makes a comment to the post below, where I talk about connecting an iSight to an iPod. It definitely would be possible to create a small device containing a battery back, DV codec chip, drivers to run the...

iSight 1.0.3 update released

iSight 1.0.3 update released 04/15/2005 08:44 AM
Apple has released iSight Update 1.0.3. The update includes improved audio performance and is available for download from the Software Update system preference pane or from the iSight Download page.

Pogue on iSight, iChat AV

Pogue on iSight, iChat AV 12/05/2003 08:56 AM
New York Times technology columnist David Pogue recounts his recent experience with iChat AV and iSight while on the road in a new column called When technology is heartwarming (Registration required but free).

How To Fall In Love With Your iSight,
Again

How To Fall In Love With Your iSight,
Again 07/20/2004 09:22 PM
By Nitrozac and Snaggy, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

SightFlex stand for iSight now shipping

SightFlex stand for iSight now shipping 11/07/2003 05:28 AM
MacMice has announced that SightFlex, its flexible stand for Apple's iSight Web camera, is now shipping...

iRecordNow turns iSight into camcorder

iRecordNow turns iSight into camcorder 10/31/2003 08:18 AM
iStopMotion developer Boinx Software has released iRecordNow, a software application that enables users of Apple's iSight Webcam to record video.

Notes and Tips: iSight Disappearance

Notes and Tips: iSight Disappearance 07/28/2004 11:05 AM
Apple apparently can't supply iSights right now, and Amazon can't get them either.
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iRecordNow turns iSight into digital
camcorder

iRecordNow turns iSight into digital
camcorder 10/30/2003 09:21 PM
Boinx Software has announced the release of iRecordNow 1.0, new software that offers an easy way to use an iSight FireWire camera to record video...

iRecordNow adds focus, sharpness
controls to iSight

iRecordNow adds focus, sharpness
controls to iSight 12/18/2003 11:50 AM
Boinx Software has released iRecordNow 1.1, a new version of its software that enables you to use an iSight Web camera to easily record video...

New Mac + iSight + iMovie = Lame
Quicktime Movie

New Mac + iSight + iMovie = Lame
Quicktime Movie 05/09/2004 12:28 AM
Ever wondered what happens when you have 5 minutes of spare time, a new Powerbook, an iSight camera, and a copy of iMovie handy? You make a lame movie, of course! Really, it's dumb. Don't watch it. I warned you. It has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The intro "title" sequence is as long as the "action" is. On a positive note, once I get a real digital video camera (more on that later), mount it in my glider,...

iChat And iSight Featured On Fox's 24

iChat And iSight Featured On Fox's 24 12/02/2003 12:40 AM

Notes and Tips: Vanishing iSight

Notes and Tips: Vanishing iSight 07/29/2004 10:09 AM
One theory for the iSight's disappearance: a new mounting system for new Apple monitors.

SightFlex stand ships for iSight

SightFlex stand ships for iSight 11/07/2003 08:54 AM
If you're looking for a different way to plant your Apple iSight Webcam on your desk or near your computer than the clips that Apple includes, Mac accessory maker MacMice has introduced the SightFlex. The SightFlex is shipping today and costs US$29.99.

USBVision updated with iChat/iSight fix,
more

USBVision updated with iChat/iSight fix,
more 06/15/2004 06:34 AM
EchoFX Inc. has announced the release of USBVision for Mac OS X v1.1.1, a maintenance update to their software to support USB-based video digitizing devices including the XLR8 InterView, Belkin VideoBus and others, including some products originally developed to support Windows PCs only. The new release restores the ability to play sound in the background, no longer interferes with iChat and isight operation, and releases unused USB bandwidth when video is not present. Other changes have been made as well. The update is free for registered users; USBVision costs US$25 for new users.

Notes and Tips: iSight Delays

Notes and Tips: iSight Delays 08/30/2004 09:59 AM
Apple again delays delivery of an iSight adapter for Cinema Displays.

iSight for the Blind: iChatAV Opens
Windows

iSight for the Blind: iChatAV Opens
Windows 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
Apple has shipped a public beta of iChatAV 2.1, including support for video conferencing with the AOL Instant Messenger 5.5 for Microsoft Windows. It's iPod all over again. Everytime a Windows user hooks up to an iSight chat, they'll be evangelized to buy an iSight for Windows machines. Of course, the secret sauce of iChatAV, the audio noise-canceling algorithms that turn IP videoconferencing from cool to usable...

Macworld Secrets Geek Factor: I Spy with iSight

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