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iChat AV 2.1, iPhoto 4.0.1 Released
Milanek writes "Apple has released final version of iChat AV 2.1. It's available on Apple's iChat site or via Software Update. It adds support for video conferencing with the new AOL Instant Messenger 5.5 for Microsoft Windows." Also available this week is an update to iPhoto, to version 4.0.1. Apple says it has performance, stability, and organization enhancements, including faster importing, smoother image viewing, easier Rendezvous sharing, and improved thumbnails.
Apple says it has performance, stability, and organization ehancements
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Not to be a spelling nazi, but that should be eHancements.
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... video conferencing... performance, stability, and organization ehancements, including faster importing, smoother image viewing, easier Rendezvous sharing, and improved thumbnails.
These things are all good, but wouldn't it be much simpler to accomplish all these performance improvements by releasing THE NEW G5 POWERBOOK!! COME ON, APPLE! I'M DYING HERE!
Thank you.
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I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
15 minutes to plow through over 2000 photos is pretty good if you ask me.
As for iChat, it seems like the beta version, but final.
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I'd like the thumbnail cache to be cross-platform and open. Why on earth can't someone publish a simple RFC for thumb caches. If bill broses his home folder on Windows, the generated thumbs should work for KDE/GNOME/OSX and whatever else, it's just common sense and it would be an 'everybody wins' sort of thing.
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Support for animated buddy icons would be nice, too. I've got some friends with animated buddy icons where the first frame of the animated gif is blank, and it gets old talking to a blank space after a while. I'd put the running man back, but I'm also extremely lazy...
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Because it updates the private system instant messaging framework. It's good practice to restart after updating a service that possibly more than one app relies on. I just force quit software update when it was done and everything was fine but it could have caused a crash in Mail.app, Address Book or some other app that accesses the framework.
I like iChat and all, but I really wish Apple would make more of an effort to enhance the general functionality of the program.
I like tabs. Tabs are such a great benefit when browsing the web. However, if I want to send instant messages to people, my only really option for tabbed IM conversations is Adium, which while it has benefits, doesn't have nearly all the features of a normal client, and suffers greatly because of it.
On top of this, I wish that iChat had Konfabulator-type features that would allow the buddy list to be docked on the main window. That's a pretty darn cool (though memory-intensive) feature that Adium has that would really add a lot of appeal to iChat for me. I don't wat to have to leave the window open all the time to find out who's online. It should just stay open in a way that is unobtrusive.
Apple strives on thinking different? Well, they should think less in the AOL mold of instant messaging, because there's some really cool stuff that some of the other indie IM clients have that I really want to see iChat implement.
I think AOL and Apple have seriously overestimated the market for video IM. Instant messaging should be free to use in the middle of the day, at night, when people are sleeping (because it makes a GREAT replacement for a phone) and any other time when a phone isn't very helpful to have around. Video offers few of those benefits to everyday life.
Small little details that make IMing easier, however, offer many.
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I'll explain that right after you explain why you're using iChat on your mission-critical server that needs five-nines availability.
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Okay, can somebody please explain why an iChat update requires a reboot?
A lot of iChat is within the .app, but there's an entire framework for it (including code and graphics) within the system files. Ppresumably it gives it a bit of a speed boost, but iChat is also tied with a lot of Apple's other apps (while reading an email in Mail, for example, you can see if the person who sent it to you is online without actually looking at iChat).
Whatever. It's still not as good (or pretty!) as the nightly builds of Adium.
If you get nervous, just remember that there are a few billion other people who don't really give a damn.
Right, because a reboot isn't an inconvenience or anything.
I realize you're being sarcastic - but you're right, it's not. Having to schedule some down time for a 24x7 server that's used by an office (or building) full of people is a pain. But a desktop workstation? Puhleeze. You're the only person on that machine - if you choose an inconvenient time, that's your own damn fault.
My linux box has been up for 211 days
So? What do you want, a medal or something?
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