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Leopard's new iChat features are actually useful
by Ted Wallingford Oct 16th 2007 at 4:00PM
- Background images. You can now appear to be sitting in front of one of your iPhoto photos, so a really cool landscape like the Great Wall of China could be the venue for your next video conference. What can we say; that's just neat.
- Tabbed chats. 'Nuff said.
- SMS forwarding. OK, we admit there could be a time when we might use this.
- Quick Look support. This is Leopard's extensive new document-previewing feature. Now you can show a Keynote slideshow or a QuickTime movie remotely through an iChat conference. In fact, you'll be able to share anything that adds Quick Look support.
- Recording. You can now save audio and video conferences. This is ideal for podcasting.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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robbyrob said 4:17PM on 10-16-2007
its about time they let us save.. we were talking about that at work the other day!
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Root said 8:13PM on 10-19-2007
Good to hear about the new features, thanks. Just a hint though: iChat's strong side is the interface, and if you separate the client from the protocols, it is actually quite useful. I have mine configured for all my Google Talk and MSN buddies as well, and then it's pretty handy.
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