It’s good to have geeky friends.

Dave and I have been playing with SquidCam a video conferencing program. It’s a kissing cousin to the webcam tools I used back in the mid 90s.

Is it any better? Well, I can connect my real video camera to it, so the adjustments are a bit easier to make, and in these days of high bandwidth, we can send pretty decent video resolution at an acceptable framerate but at the expense of audio. If we want to hear one another clearly, we have to drop the video quality down, as pictured above.

So it’s far from perfect. But it does let me hang out with Dave while he eats dinner and watches DVDs. And that’s pretty fun. Launch squid!