Nov 18
USB 3.0 Finalized at 4.8 Gbps
Sun Microsystems to fire 6000. Crazy wording in FT. Jerry Yang quits. AOL kills Homestead. HO Says sales are heading up, not down like Intel thinks. USB 3. released (finalized) today. I highlight two stories about USB 3.0 showing how bad today’s tech coverage has become.Â
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Nov 17
Vista Capable Stll Not Capable
Nov 13
Will Apple do a Search Engine?
Nov 13
Google (gMail) Video Chat…
| It’s been a long time coming, after all, we’ve had video conference / chat since before the internet, skype has it, AIM and MSN has/d it… however, after trying Google’s gMail Video chat, I must say, I’m impressed.Installation was near instantaneous, and almost completely behind the scenes. I had no idea it was installed (most likely a few seconds later) when I had clicked the “Install Voice and Video Chat” button, as it wasn’t until I wondered what was going on, and moved my browser out of the way that I saw the completion dialog box behind chrome.
That was nice and quick, just needed a more obvious confirmation. |
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| As for usage… well, nothing seemed to really tell me that the settings are within the “chat” portion of your gMail “settings“, but that wasn’t to hard to figure out.
I started off like this… installed, hmmm, what do I do now? Friend IMd me… oh cool, an opportunity, within the browser (gMail), |
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| I started chatting and then clicked “video and more”, | ![]() |
| this enabled a smaller turn up (kinda like a clock rotation / pop up)… once I did that, it was then blatantly obvious to click “video chat” or invite the friend to video chat.My chat-hort was unaware it was out yet, so we had an audio conversation at first… smooth and easily understood. I was on a wired connection and he wi-fi at $bucks and once I told him the great news, he immediately clicked on the red text at the top of his gMail or iGoogle page that said, “| New! Video chat |” and his download was as instantaneous as mine.
We were off, with the install there was not even a need to restart the conversation, it just worked, immediately! Now that is seamless! I made a few adjustments in the “Camera” settings drop down, and it immediately changed in the chat session I had going… no hang up, no reboot, no hassle at all, it just worked. Again, SEEMLESS! Google, I must say, it’s an impressive addition to the already easy and clean gTalk (chat) function already available. NOW, I want to see it available as a mobile application (and please don’t fall into the iPhone only trap, at least make it for Symbian devices as well. Otherwise I’ll just continue using Fring and qik.com for video confrencing on my Nokia N95-4 8GB. ;) Oh, and on a slightly sadder note… I have two PPC macs, and this does not work on PPC. :( So, I was restricted to using it on my PC, since I don’t have an intelMac. :( I feel like I’m being left out with fewer apps being made for PPC. |
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Nov 12
Sun Turning Green
Nov 11
Slow News Day Indeed
Nov 10
Earbuds Bad for the Heart?
Nov 6
Hookers Must Get off Craigslist
Nov 5
No Agenda Gets Nominated for an Award
Nov 4

