Gordon's Tech

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My father has been doing well in a Quebec long term care facility for veterans (in Canada that has historically meant WW II, he’s in his 90s...

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was testing a Facetime videolink to my mother . It's not my first attempt. I'd tried Google Video...

FaceTime for Mac ($1) has an undocumented AutoAnswer feature ... 10.6: Enable AutoAnswer in FaceTime for the Mac - Mac OS X Hints ... defau...

The artistic sociopath alternates cruel sadism  with lovely gifts. That's Apple. The gift this time is  FaceTime for Mac . It's ...

I'm still looking for a reasonably reliable video conferencing solution that my mother can use . It has to run on OS X, the UI should...

This is a bit complex to describe fully, but I hope these hints will be of use. Briefly, I wanted to be able to establish a video chat con...

GVC 1.0.8 is out. This is very interesting (emphases mine) ... juberjabber: Gmail voice and video v1.0.8 ... Added support for the...

When I recently posted to the Gmail Help group about the extreme instability of Google Video Chat over the past week (connection half-life i...

We've been making extensive use of Google Video Chat for corporate communications (and with my aged mother, but that's a future po...

This was one of my weirder computing experiences. I was testing iChat AV, connecting my G5 iMac to my MacBook through our wireless LAN. I w...

I wrote a few weeks ago about choosing a webcam for some work projects . I ended up ordering a number of Logitech QuickCam Pro cameras; seve...

I don't think this was always true, nor do I recall an announcement, but Google has added Gmail video chat capabilities to Google Apps a...

We’ve been making extensive use of GVC for corporate collaboration. It’s damned impressive, but there’s NO information from Google’s offic...

Ahh, the perils of life on the cutting edge. I gave Google Video Chat a grade of B- a week or so ago, but now it’s as unstable on XP as it’...

I've been updating my initial post on Google Video Chat , but I think I've enough experience now to offer a status report. I've ...

ver in Gordon's Notes , where I keep my ravings, I've opined on the root causes of the very slow development of useful and reliable ...

I bought my LifeCam VX-6000 two years ago. For most of that time it sat on my shelf. Now, thanks to Google Video Chat , and several Microso...

It all started innocently enough, with corporate testing of Google Video chat. In one test using a camera only on my machine my test subje...

We all know Google's flagship web apps: Google Mail (Gmail) and Google Contacts, Google Reader, Blogger, YouTube, Photos, Google Apps an...