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Daily Update for November 17, 2011

by Steven Sande (Nov 17th, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

iOS code hints iChat functionality coming to mobile

by Mike Schramm (Nov 17th, 2011)

Developer John Heaton found some code in the latest version of iOS that hints iChat functionality could finally be coming to the mobile operating system. The code mentions various chat services like Jabber and AIM, and while it doesn't specifically mention iChat, there's certainly some strings ...

Latest Lion build features iCal, iChat redesign

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 31st, 2011)

The latest Lion Developer Preview (released yesterday) features some cool new redesigns of a few of Mac OS X's built-in apps. First up is a completely redesigned iCal. The new iCal now closely resembles the Calendar app that you find on the iPad. It sports a leather header, complete with strips ...

Apple patent frenzy: TV set-top box, Cinema Display, iChat, liquid metal

by Chris Rawson (Jan 6th, 2011)

According to Patently Apple, this week Apple's been granted a storm of patents. The patents include: 1. An advanced set-top box that sounds like the superhero offspring of the current Apple TV and a TiVo set. What's new and exciting in this patent is a multiple search engine implementation that ...

Logitech's HD Pro Webcam C910 now ready for Photo Booth, iChat and FaceTime

by Steven Sande (Jan 4th, 2011)

Although Apple includes an iSight or FaceTime webcam in almost every Mac, the low resolution (640 x 480 pixels for most machines, 1280 x 960 resampled to 640 x 480 for new MacBook Pros) of the cameras has lagged behind the webcams available from other computer manufacturers. Logitech markets a large ...

Apple wins patents to MacBook Air, iChat, iPhone compass icon, more

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Oct 20th, 2010)

Macsimum news reports that Apple has received a number of patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. These patents include: iChat, involving its video conferencing A stereo-windowing system with translucent window support involving Quartz Extreme A news-feed viewer A portable power ...

Rumor: FaceTime on the way for iChat and Windows

by Mel Martin (Sep 10th, 2010)

Ever since the FaceTime announcement as an 'open platform,' the question's been hanging over us: when do we expect desktop support for the new videoconferencing approach? "Soon," is what French website Mac4ever is reporting today. They have a pretty good track record, so the prediction is worth ...

FaceTime video conferencing coming to the iPhone

by David Winograd (Jun 7th, 2010)

At today's WWDC keynote, a new feature of the iOS 4 operating system called FaceTime was announced and demonstrated, bringing iChat like video conferencing to the iPhone. FaceTime requires no set up or configuration and will work with either the front or back facing camera on the iPhone 4, but the ...

iPhone image metadata hints at more cameras on the next iPhone

by Mike Schramm (May 14th, 2010)

Well, this is interesting. Our twitter follower @chenks points out that, hidden in the metadata of a picture taken with his OS 4.0-enabled iPhone, there is a title stating that the picture came from the phone's "Back Camera." Of course, if the phone currently has a back camera, there's a possibility ...

Apple previews icon of iPhone video chat app? Probably not.

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 29th, 2010)

On their Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 page, Apple has posted a series of icons, one of which looks like it could be the new icon for the rumored iChat video conferencing app that will be used to take advantage of the 4G iPhone's front facing camera. As you can see from the series of ...

iPhone OS 4 to integrate with Facebook

by Mike Schramm (Apr 19th, 2010)

Developers have done a little more poking around with iPhone OS 4.0, and it looks like Apple is set to get much more social with the next version of the iPhone. Not only will the new OS include the new gaming network Game Center, but apparently the OS will also integrate Facebook contacts directly ...

iChatAgent process shows up in iPhone OS 4.0 -- video conferencing coming?

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 8th, 2010)

As expected, Apple didn't introduce any new iPhone hardware today; knowing Steve Jobs & co., they still want to save some surprises when they unveil the 4G iPhone later this summer. Could one of those surprises be a front-facing camera with iChat support? Close TUAW reader AW sent us this ...

Sixteen new Apple patents, from CoverFlow to iDVD

by Mike Schramm (Apr 8th, 2010)

The USPTO published a whole slew of new patent applications from Apple today, covering everything from iChat to some CoverFlow animation. Patently Apple has the whole writeup as usual. Probably the most interesting thing among them is a "virtual keyboard for media players" that uses a modified ...

Ask TUAW: DVD Sharing on an iMac, menubar calendar, network scanning, and more

by Mat Lu (Mar 22nd, 2010)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about using DVD Sharing on an iMac (instead of a MacBook Air), ignoring Software Updates, getting a drop-down calendar in the menubar, seeing Wi-Fi network channels, using iChat with other services, and ...

How to: Facebook chat in iChat or Adium

by Aron Trimble (Feb 16th, 2010)

Last week, the fine Facebook folk let us know (via the Facebook Help Center) that you can now sign in to Facebook's chat service using iChat. Of course, the free Adium client has directly supported Facebook chat since version 1.3 (released in 2008), but this step opens up a much wider range of ...