A minor tale of woe and ass-u-me ...

2009-03-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
Ok, so this weekend I became an object lesson for y'all. A couple of months ago, I got a neat little webcam from Woot.com, the Clique Hue. Woot said 'Windows only'; box only mentioned windows, no one on the woot forum chimed in with a 'Oh yeah it works on OS X', but it was cheap, and many

Re: A minor tale of woe and ass-u-me ...

2009-03-09 Thread Charles Davis
On Mar 9, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > Ok, so this weekend I became an object lesson for y'all. > snip > With a link to OS X drivers, which they've had all along, and were > present on the CD included, if I'd bothered to look :-) > > Moral of the story: Don't always believe the bo

Re: A minor tale of woe and ass-u-me ...

2009-03-10 Thread Paul
In the world of computers, most of us are so used to things being genuinely difficult that we're unprepared for when the solution is easy and obvious. "Is it plugged in?" "Does the manual tell you how to do it?" "Does it just start working when you connect everything up?" --~--~-~--~---

Re: A minor tale of woe and ass-u-me ...

2009-03-10 Thread nestamicky
Bruce Johnson wrote: > Ok, so this weekend I became an object lesson for y'all. > > A couple of months ago, I got a neat little webcam from Woot.com, the > Clique Hue. > I went to their site Bruce and saw some cute cams. I'm curious though; how are these connected to the computer. I'm not

Re: A minor tale of woe and ass-u-me ...

2009-03-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 10, 2009, at 9:38 AM, nestamicky wrote: > Bruce Johnson wrote: >> Ok, so this weekend I became an object lesson for y'all. >> >> A couple of months ago, I got a neat little webcam from Woot.com, the >> Clique Hue. >> > I went to their site Bruce and saw some cute cams. I'm curious though;

Re: A minor tale of woe and ass-u-me ...

2009-03-11 Thread nestamicky
Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Mar 10, 2009, at 9:38 AM, nestamicky wrote: > > >> Bruce Johnson wrote: >> >>> Ok, so this weekend I became an object lesson for y'all. >>> >>> A couple of months ago, I got a neat little webcam from Woot.com, the >>> Clique Hue. >>> >>> >> I went to their

Re: A minor tale of woe and ass-u-me ...

2009-03-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 11, 2009, at 7:41 AM, nestamicky wrote: >> >> They exaggerate greatly, no way are these cameras truly 1.3 >> megapixels. >> >> I was playing with mine and at that resolution (1280x1024) there were >> horrible, horrible jaggies in the image. > Well, upon further experimentation, the ja

Re: A minor tale of woe and ass-u-me ...

2009-03-11 Thread nestamicky
Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Mar 11, 2009, at 7:41 AM, nestamicky wrote: > > >>> They exaggerate greatly, no way are these cameras truly 1.3 >>> megapixels. >>> >>> I was playing with mine and at that resolution (1280x1024) there were >>> horrible, horrible jaggies in the image. >>> > >

Re: A minor tale of woe and ass-u-me ...

2009-03-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 11, 2009, at 8:46 PM, nestamicky wrote: >> >> As a video chat camera, under good lighting, it's looks to be a good >> webcam...it's just too bad it isn't a USB2 camera, so it works >> natively with iChat. >> > Until your last comment about USB2, I believed that iChat will only > work >

Re: A minor tale of woe and ass-u-me ...

2009-03-12 Thread Clark Martin
Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Mar 11, 2009, at 8:46 PM, nestamicky wrote: > >>> As a video chat camera, under good lighting, it's looks to be a good >>> webcam...it's just too bad it isn't a USB2 camera, so it works >>> natively with iChat. >>> >> Until your last comment about USB2, I believed tha

Re: A minor tale of woe and ass-u-me ...

2009-03-12 Thread nestamicky
Clark Martin wrote: > Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> On Mar 11, 2009, at 8:46 PM, nestamicky wrote: >> >> As a video chat camera, under good lighting, it's looks to be a good webcam...it's just too bad it isn't a USB2 camera, so it works natively with iChat. >

Re: A minor tale of woe and ass-u-me ...

2009-03-16 Thread Edie
Title: Re: A minor tale of woe and ass-u-me ... At 6:46 PM -0700 3/12/09 nestamicky wrote:   Well this is good to know.  Now I turn my attention to a video web server...where people can log in and see a live stream. Ideas? Sorry, I'm a bit behind on this list. Consider .  You can si

Re: A minor tale of woe and ass-u-me ...

2009-03-16 Thread nestamicky
Edie wrote: > At 6:46 PM -0700 3/12/09 nestamicky wrote: >>> >> Well this is good to know. Now I turn my attention to a video web >> server...where people can log in and see a live stream. Ideas? > > > Sorry, I'm a bit behind on this list. > > Consider . You can sign u