Brett Garsed Discussion

bilbo--baggins · Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 15 Location: UK

Brett,

Have you ever given lessons over the internet? A few people have started doing this, and apparently you can get high quality video using Apple's iChat and iSight camera (do you have a Mac?). I've seen that you teach guitar lessons, but unfortunately we're on opposite sides of the world! If you could give lessons over the internet it would be great.

bretto212 · Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 266

I actually went to the Mac store to buy an iSight camera the other day and they didn't have any but I'll get one in a couple of days. It's definitely a consideration and I'm open to it. I'll test it out with a few friends and see if it'll work. Keep you posted!

chris_johnstone · Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 185 Location: Canberra

I had a webcam lesson with Greg Howe the other day and it was very cool. You don't even have to be in the same country anymore!

Brett let me know if you want to try it out, I'm up for a chat!

Chris

bilbo--baggins · Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 15 Location: UK

I read a report on macrumors.com last week saying that there were problems with iSight availability and that their online store have pushed back the expected availability date. They speculated that there might be a new version on the way. I have a built in iSight in my new MacBook but I haven't tried it as I don't know anyone else with one.

Big Kev · Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 404 Location: Melbourne

Obviously this is veering off-topic here, but the counter rumour to the "new iSight coming" one is that Apple are ditching it altogether as a separate item, since their entire portable line now features them built-in. I think it's more likely that they'll just start building them in to their Cinema Displays now too.

Kev