Happy valentines day to my PowerBook -- my iSight finally arrived today! So, I got home from work (Kevin arrived just at the same time), and while I played with my new iSight, Kevin went back to work.

After getting the thing unboxed, it took me awhile to get the bracket assembled the correct way, including the correct orientation of the FireWire cable. Then I gave my dad a call (he wasn't in front of his AIM client), and we started trying to get the AIM 5.5 <-> iChat AV 2.1 Beta working.

After having it fall flat a number of times, I finally managed to get iChat to tell me that it was having problems connecting to port 3060 on my dad's machine. This was the sort of debugging information that we needed, and it sent my dad SSH'ing over to his Linux box to bang on the firewall.

When that still didn't work, I jumped on my FreeBSD machine, and started running tcpdump. I noticed that not only did my dad not open port 5060, but my side was denying port 5060. So, I banged on my firewall (and my dad got his firewall change correct), and we were rockin'.

The picture quality from my dad's iSight wasn't so great -- I think that Apple includes some custom software on the mac which does some color correction on calibration. But, it did work surprisingly well. Even my mom was impressed (she thought it was going to suck, the last time she saw this technology was when we had QuickCams and CU-SeeMe). Fantastic.

And because I have to keep the moblog going, here is a photo from the iSight:

In order to take the picture, I had to download a 3rd party app -- I couldn't figure out how to take pictures with my iSight using only Apple's software. The software that I used: iStill. Go third parties...

-Andy.