Filed under: Audio, Software, Video, Internet Tools
iVideoMail and iVoiceMail plugins for Mail
Here's a novel idea: being able to easily send something besides text and pretty pictures in email. iVideoMail and iVoiceMail are Mail plugins that take the legwork out of recording video and audio clips for easy emailing. They install as preference panes within Mail, and once you customize a message's toolbar to add a button for either plugin (there doesn't seem to be any other way to use them when composing a message), you're ready to start emailing your beautiful mug and American Idol-worthy voice to anyone who can handle it. Just don't blame us if your friends and colleagues begin removing you from their address books.
I only briefly tried out the iVideoMail demo and it works pretty well, although the resulting 6-second 320 x 240 video in MPEG4 was 376 KB, which might be considered a little large by some. By why not judge for yourself? Demos are available via a rather annoying submit-your-email-for-a-customized-download-link process, and a license for either plugin is a mere $10 USD.
[via Hawk Wings' plugin list]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chris Saribay said 3:12PM on 7-16-2006
At least on the voice part, looks a lot like Lip Service from NeXT Mailer.
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Christopher Williams said 5:51PM on 7-16-2006
How does the message work on the receiving end?
When a receiver of such a message open this new email, do the video/ sound clips start automatically? Or does the receiver have to hit a play button of some sort?
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007 said 3:11PM on 7-18-2006
i sen it to myself and i found it to be ina quicktime mode so i just press play other folks werent so lucky some how to download but if the recepient is a mail app user on a mac its pretty straight forward and well intigrated.
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Cornelia Menzel said 5:40AM on 7-31-2006
It won't install on my Mac OS X 10.4.7. Mail application is closed, I even restarted, but I always receive a message, that there was a a problem installing the software and that I can try it again.
Does anyone has it installed successfully?
Kind regards,
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