Presentation Files Online
Published 21 years, 2 months pastThe presentation files from NOTACON and the UIUC Webmaster Forum are now available on the Events page (and the Events Archive page) over at Complex Spiral Consulting. Share and enjoy.
The presentation files from NOTACON and the UIUC Webmaster Forum are now available on the Events page (and the Events Archive page) over at Complex Spiral Consulting. Share and enjoy.
So there was a big deal made out of the fact that iChat AV 2.1 and AIM 5.5 can do videoconferencing. Apple’s iChat page and a press release from AOL both proudly announce how the two can interoperate. For example, here’s an excerpt from the AOL press release:
The new live video instant messaging feature in AIM 5.5 is fully compatible with iChat AV 2.1, Apple’s breakthrough video conferencing technology. Now AOL users from a PC can tap into the worldwide community of iChat AV users on Macs. iChat AV 2.1, the latest version of iChat AV was released by Apple today…
This would be ideal for me, as my father has AOL and the latest version of AIM for Windows XP. He’s also moving to Florida, where he’ll have broadband. So I view this as the perfect way for him to keep in closer touch with us, and to be able to see Carolyn as she grows, even though he’ll be living a thousand or so miles away. When she gets older, it will be a way for her to keep in touch with him as well.
Now, neither Dad nor I own a camera yet, but we do both have microphones, so I thought I’d test out the audio chat capability. So far, zippo. He and I have both made sure we have the right versions of our client software. We can’t establish an audio connection.
So, has anyone gotten this to actually work, and if so, how? I’ve opened up all the ports I can find that even seem to be halfway relevant, as per an Apple KB article I found, and have checked my router to be sure it’s allowing traffic on those ports, but I still can’t establish an audio connection with AIM users. Text chatting, no problem, but I don’t even get an audio-chat icon in my Buddy List. I do get one for all the iChat users in my List, and have audio-chatted with a number of them. Do we both have to own a camera for this to work? I had figured, you know, if video conferencing was supported then audio conferencing must be supported, but perhaps that would be expecting things to make too much sense.
If anyone out there has a solution, or even a pointer to information about it, comments are most welcome.
I’ve converted “Thoughts From Eric” over to use WordPress, dropping my lovingly hand-crafted XML/XSLT solution for something packaged. Since there’s no actual package, I guess I use that term somewhat loosely, but then I was also being very loose with the term “lovingly,” at least as pertains to XSLT. I decided to go with WordPress because it’s all driven by HTML+CSS layout, and it uses PHP to generate the HTML. I don’t know from PHP, but I can figure it out well enough to hack in the features I want, and the CSS-driven nature of the layout means I can do my own thing in a jiffy. In this case, that meant bending the PHP files to produce markup consistent with the old meyerweb, and then applying my existing style sheets to the result. Thus the visual consistency between yesterday and today.
Some changes that may or may not be of interest to you:
That’s about it. I just thought some of you out there would be interested in the details.