We've been playing with iChat Video chat and screen sharing and it's pretty fantastic—when we can get it to work. So far, it's failed to connect half the time, and the other half of the time it works perfectly. (Keep in mind this is day one, so we'll update as we find out more.) The below shot is an example of when three-way chat fails and gives us tons of video artifacts and no audio whatsoever. However, the video above shows a perfectly fine chat session that has video effects with a video playing in the background. It's also NSFW.
Even though it doesn't have the R2-D2 effect, the ones left (especially the roller coaster one) is awesome. You can also use your own movies for stupid juvenile videos like the one above. It made us laugh.
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The enthusiastic high-fives of future iPhone instant messaging users yesterday might be quite a bit less enthusiastic today when they find out that Apple is not going to allow user-made SDK applications to run in the background. This means every application, from IM to VoIP to GPS mapping, will have to terminate entirely when the user switches out to take a call or change a song. How does this affect you? It means you won't be a be able to receive IMs unless you're currently inside the IM app, forcing you to disconnect when you take a call. There's an upside and a downside to this decision.
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