Yesterday I purchased a Logitech 9000 webcam for my Macintosh Powerbook laptop. Although on the package, it listed only the windows operating system, it worked great on my Mac, but beware..your operating system should be Tiger or higher. Check the following website to see which webcam will work for you. http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/ and download Macam. Macam contains drivers for various supported webcams on the Mac. Restart your computer, plug in the USB and the video will start within seconds! It is amazing to talk to people that you can see and for free too!
This morning Dariusz, our grad assistant, Joanie and I tried to get Skype and the webcam to work on a 500 megahertz mac laptop. This is the speed of the processor and this old laptop is really slow! The results were pretty bad with interrupted speech and pixelating images. You really need to have at least an 800 Mhz machine to get Skype to work effectively.
We launched my new website today. Visit it at http://webspace.ship.edu/jrruby
Joanie put a tremendous amount of work into the development of this site. I am so pleased with the results!
Less than three weeks remain until I start my journey to Taiwan. I am definitely getting overwhelmed with stuff that must be done before I leave...
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