To start off, I always have been interested in technology, I even fantasized about carrying around a very loud speaker in my pocket and being able to throw a party with the thing, at that time I was only 10 years old. We have such things today, although not entirely what I fantasized about, but almost. 

This blog post is in response to msbodetti's blog where she asked what our favourite iPhone apps were. I decided to do a blog post rather, as it would make a better comment.

I really loved watching this video and I'd like to share it with you. It was uploaded by shreyanscoolguy and the quality looks HD.

In this video Steve Jobs points out the many accomplishments Apple has made up to now. This video was recorded on the 2 March.

Really amazed to see Steve Jobs presenting this due to his absence in the last few months because of his health. But he looks pretty healthy in this video maybe because of all the excitement for the iPad 2.

Hopefully he gets better!!

So the FaceTime for Mac was officially released on 24 February 2011. It basically allows you to have video calls between your Apple devices, but not just any Apple device…

Unfortunately it is not available for previous iPhone models that have 3G enabled cameras such as the iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS. The only reason I can think of that Apple is restricting this, is because they want you to buy the latest editions which is the iPhone 4 and the 4th Generation iPod touch. Maybe they will make changes to the iPhone firmware later on which allows FaceTime for the iPhone 3G and 3GS.
You can even have FaceTime calls between Mac users with this App.

 I have recently tested out the iPhone 4 FaceTime call with my sister in Norway. It works just as good with a video call over Skype from my Mac which goes to show how revolutionized this is. The lag of video calls depends on the ISP upstream and downstream connection you have. I have the MWEB Adsl unlimited on the downstream of 4 Mbps and upstream of 512 Kbps. It works really good and it's satisfactory for me.

Requirements

- An iPhone 4 or 4th Generation iPod Touch with firmware 4.1 and higher
-A Mac OS X with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6 and higher) It can be a notebook or desktop
-The FaceTime App from the Mac App Store (Costs $0.99 which is reasonable)

How to set it up

1. Firstly you need to make sure that the FaceTime capability is enabled on your iPone 4 or iPod Touch 4th Gen; Go to Settings - Phone and switch the FaceTime on or on the iPod Touch 4th Gen Go to Settings - FaceTime and switch it on and put in your Apple ID and password and it will verify it

Well like in my last blog about my lovely 27 inch iMac, I just love Apple especially when they give you unlimited Apps to download for your favourite devices!