iHear iSight
Now that I'm back from WWDC, I'm faced with a dilemna. You see, I was "lucky" enough to get a free iSight. At first blink, that sounds like an awesome freebie. But now the implications are starting to hit me. If I plug this thing in, I'm potentially opening myself up to a world where people chat with me with more ease than before, and I'm not sure I want that.
I like working at home, and I enjoy the privacy of it all. Do I want people doing audio and voice-chats with me so easily? I'm undecided. I'll probably just hook the thing up and see how it goes.
5 minutes later...
OK, I'm an idiot. The adhesive backing on the monitor mounts is like super glue. I mounted my camera at a slight sideways angle and now it's stuck that way. I suck. I'll tilt my head to the right a bit every time I video chat to make up for it. ;)
Edit: I checked out the video preview and I look like I'm a bat-villain. That camera is at a much more rakish angle than I thought. Good grief.
Edit again: Oh man, this is so cool. The preview lags behind by a split second, so it's like peering back in time. I must've spend a good 30 seconds moving things in front of the camera to watch the lag effect. I hope I remember to turn the camera off when I'm surfing the web for porn.
Edit part 3: Weird. The preview image is mirror-reversed. That is, when I look at myself (as I love doing), the writing on my t-shirt appears backwards in iChat's preview window. It's like peering into Bizarro World.