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TUAW's Daily Mac App: Kaleidoscope Camera

by Samuel Gibbs (May 30th, 2011)

Camera-equipped Macs can be an endless source of amusement for kids and big kids alike. Whether it's recording stupid faces in Photo Booth or playing with one of the myriad of fun little camera-based apps, being silly on camera is just plain fun. Kaleidoscope Camera is a simple little US$0.99 ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Rear View Mirror

by Samuel Gibbs (May 6th, 2011)

The Mac App Store is full of useful apps, but it's also full of pretty silly little ones. Today's Daily Mac App is a mix of both. Rear View Mirror, is an app that helps you see what's happening behind you using your iSight or FaceTime HD camera. It essentially gives you a rearview mirror ...

Witness for iPhone turns your Mac into a home alarm system

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 1st, 2011)

If you have $40 and a recent Mac with an iSight camera, then you have the makings of a simple home surveillance system thanks to Witness. Developed by Orbicule, Witness is a surveillance app that turns your Mac's camera into a motion sensor. The application runs in the background on your ...

Ask TUAW: Mac mini as Time Machine server, baby monitoring with a Mac, and more

by Mat Lu (Mar 28th, 2010)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about accessing a shared Google calendar, baby monitoring, sharing music between user accounts, scanning over an Airport Extreme, using a Mac mini as Time Machine target, and more. As always, your ...

Repair service finds iPad's camera slot

by Dave Caolo (Feb 2nd, 2010)

The folks at Mission:Repair have received iPad replacement parts from Apple. While checking them out, they noticed a slot that seems like it could accommodate an iSight. So they pulled an iSight camera from a MacBook pro and guess what happened. It fit perfectly inside the slot in the iPad's frame. ...

DIY iSight night vision camera

by Lauren Hirsch (Dec 8th, 2009)

Now that most all Apple computers come with their own built-in iSight, the standalone iSight has taken a bit of a back seat. It always was a gorgeous piece of Apple art, though, and I really wanted to use it in a functional way. An easy way was to attach it to the Mac mini I have in the baby's room, ...

TUAW Holiday Gift Guide: Displays

by Joachim Bean (Dec 7th, 2009)

A display, whether it's a primary, extra display for a portable, or a desktop secondary, is something that's very useful, and makes a great gift. Here's a few gift ideas for displays to use with your Mac. Dell ST2210 This display offers a 1920x1080 resolution, a 21.5 inch viewing area, and ...

Apple releases updates improving printing, scanning, iSight cameras and QuickTime

by Joachim Bean (Nov 19th, 2009)

Over the past few days, Apple has been releasing updates for printer and scanner drivers in Snow Leopard, iSight cameras in LED Cinema Displays and QuickTime 7 for Windows. First, Apple released printer driver updates for Snow Leopard for Lexmark printers and Brother, Canon and HP printers and ...

The mighty mini, take two: DIY video baby monitor

by Lauren Hirsch (Jul 13th, 2009)

What do you get when you combine a new parent on maternity leave with a love of gadgets and Apple products? Why, you get "baby monitor overkill!" In response to Dave Caolo's recent ode to the Mac mini, I figured it was time to step up. I had two things gathering dust: my old standalone iSight, a ...

Get your 25 seconds of fame with Tweetube for Mac OS X

by Steven Sande (Feb 22nd, 2009)

If you're a Twitter fan and a Mac user, you'll appreciate a new tool from RADSense Software -- Tweetube for Mac OS X. Tweetube is a free application that uses your iSight camera to record a 25 second video which is then uploaded automatically to Tweetube. A tweet with an embedded link to the video ...

Family.app gets updated to 2.3, fixes iSight/iPhoto features

by Cory Bohon (Jan 14th, 2009)

If you have been following Saltatory Software's Family.app, then you know how great it can be for easily creating family trees. Recently updated, this application allows you to easily track your family's genealogy. The new update fixes some bugs that occurred with Leopard, like the iSight/iLife ...

Dream Capture 2.2 released

by Steven Sande (Oct 6th, 2008)

Those of you who like to use your iSight cameras to record and upload video to YouTube or other video sharing Web sites will be happy to know that Dream Apps has released version 2.2 of Dream Capture. Dream Capture is designed especially for both internal and external iSight cameras, although it ...

Rumor: New Cinema displays at Macworld '09?

by Cory Bohon (Aug 6th, 2008)

MacRumors speculates on the possibility of Apple releasing updated Cinema displays at next year's Macworld Expo. According to the post, the new displays could incorporate the LED backlight technology that Apple has started building into their 15" MacBook Pros. MacRumors notes that LED backlit ...

Logitech releases Mac-only webcam; cats, dogs reported living together

by Michael Rose (Jun 24th, 2008)

Apologies to Dr. Peter Venkman, but it's hard to believe that it's taken this long for a webcam vendor to encroach on the vacuum left by the discontinued iSight, even though we have hints that a new model of the Apple camera might be on the HD horizon. Logitech has now announced the QuickCam Vision ...

Mac Automation: take and sync pictures to Apple TV

by Cory Bohon (Jun 2nd, 2008)

Parties can sometimes be boring, but with a Mac with an iSight and an Apple TV, you can liven up any party! In this how-to, I am going to show you how to create an Automator workflow that will take pictures at specified times and sync them over to your Apple TV, all without you ever lifting a ...