{"id":65,"date":"2008-03-03T03:49:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T11:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/03\/another-reason-to-love-ichat\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:20:15","slug":"another-reason-to-love-ichat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/03\/another-reason-to-love-ichat\/","title":{"rendered":"Another reason to love iChat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, I realized that nobody would consider this publication a &#8220;real&#8221; blog without pictures of cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using iChat for video since the public beta came out while I was in school. It&#8217;s a great way to keep in touch with my family, and it has even virtually brought my sister from a flat in London to our Thanksgiving dinner table in Pennsylvania. Another great part about the technology is that I can communicate with those who usually wouldn&#8217;t hear from me on the phone: our cats. They look right at the screen when I talk to them from California. I haven&#8217;t recorded this on video yet (that&#8217;s a cool new feature of Leopard), but I have taken some stills of our video conversations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/harry2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Harry\" class=\"wp-image-68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/harry2-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/harry2-1-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/potter-1.jpg\" alt=\"Potter\" class=\"wp-image-69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/potter-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/potter-1-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"390\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/harry-1.jpg\" alt=\"Harry\" class=\"wp-image-67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/harry-1.jpg 390w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/harry-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\n<br>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I realized that nobody would consider this publication a &#8220;real&#8221; blog without pictures of cats. I&#8217;ve been using iChat for video since the public beta came out while I was in school. It&#8217;s a great way to keep in touch with my family, and it has even virtually brought my sister from a flat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/03\/another-reason-to-love-ichat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another reason to love iChat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16,23,24],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","tag-cats","tag-harry","tag-potter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/3255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}