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"On a recent trip to Florida with my newborn son Connor, my partner Chris and I quickly realized that we forgot one of the most important parental necessities - our baby monitor.
We were renting a great little cottage south of West Palm Beach, and now we were afraid to put the baby to sleep and head to another room.
Fortunately, after some geeking out, we realized that we could use our Apple laptops, along with Skype as live video monitors. It was a cinch to set up. I put my MacBook Air in the baby's room, with the iSight camera facing Connor, and we put the MacBook Pro in the kitchen. I called Chris on Skype, and voila! Our setup was even better than our baby monitor since we could see our son's every move (one important piece of advice if you do this, mute the laptop in your baby's room so you don't wake the little one!).
Yes, as I learned on our family vacation, turns out that the iSight camera is good for a lot more than just video chats. To find out how people are using their cams, I hit Twitter to do a little crowdsourcing in 140 characters or less. "
We were renting a great little cottage south of West Palm Beach, and now we were afraid to put the baby to sleep and head to another room.
Fortunately, after some geeking out, we realized that we could use our Apple laptops, along with Skype as live video monitors. It was a cinch to set up. I put my MacBook Air in the baby's room, with the iSight camera facing Connor, and we put the MacBook Pro in the kitchen. I called Chris on Skype, and voila! Our setup was even better than our baby monitor since we could see our son's every move (one important piece of advice if you do this, mute the laptop in your baby's room so you don't wake the little one!).
Yes, as I learned on our family vacation, turns out that the iSight camera is good for a lot more than just video chats. To find out how people are using their cams, I hit Twitter to do a little crowdsourcing in 140 characters or less. "