Tuesday - October 14, 2003

I bought an Apple iSight camera yesterday, it's just an attractive gizmo that keeps catching my eye.  The design is very appealing, typical of hardware that Apple designs.  And the packaging, I really enjoy the way Apple presents its products out of the box.

Unfortunately, once I started getting ready to use it there were some misses.  From all the pictures I looked at, it appeared that this camera would mount on top of my iMac screen, but I discovered that attachment works only for a laptop.  The suggested mount for the iMac is a piece that is attached to the back of the monitor with double sided sticky tape.  I didn't want to do that to my monitor, so I used the third stand which is just a mini table stand.  Next, there is no included software.  You can download the iChat AV beta and wait for Panther. 

It is supposed to have a IIDC interface on firewire, so it probably will work on some other computers around here.

I guess lack of software is just an opportunity...  still a neat little camera, I have some plans for it.