Arbor Bits Announces iCamShare

 

ANN ARBOR, MI — September 2, 2004 — Arbor Bits (www.arborbits.com) announces iCamShare, a webcam application for sharing videos and pictures with family and friends. You can capture videos and pictures from your iSight or other webcam, and send them in e-mails, publish them on your .Mac HomePage, drag and drop them into other applications, and more! iCamShare can also digitally zoom iSight and other FireWire webcams up to 300%.

Version 2.0 also adds support for trimming of unwanted portions at the beginning or end of videos, access to camera and audio controls, and includes many interface improvements.

iCamShare is the new name for Easy VMail, and is offered as a free upgrade to existing customers. You can still send video e-mails easily, and your recipient can watch it on their computer, in some cases right inside their own e-mail program! Unlike video conferencing, you can send video e-mails whenever you want, and the recipient can watch them whenever they want.

While iChat AV requires that both users have high-speed (broadband) internet connections, iCamShare works with any internet connection, including dial-up modems. If your OS X-based Mac can send e-mails, you can send video mails. And the videos you make will work on most Macintosh and Windows computers, even if you send it to someone who does not have QuickTime. But if you use QuickTime's superior compression, you can compress your videos by up to 500x!

With version 2.0, you can also share your videos and pictures in many new ways. If you have a .Mac account, you can easily capture and publish on your .Mac HomePage. iCamShare is one of the first applications to take advantage of Apple's new DotMacKit Framework.

You can also drag-and-drop pictures into many applications, like Microsoft Office applications, Adobe products such as PhotoShop, Lifli Software's iBlog, and many others. Or you can save your video or picture on your computer, to use any way you want. In addition, you can export them into any format supported by QuickTime.

iCamShare is a versatile tool, empowering many different types of users. Teachers can use iCamShare for video correspondence with schools in other locations. For example, students in a Spanish class could correspond with students their age in Mexico or Spain. Parents can keep in touch with their children whenever they can't be there. Children can thank Grandma for their new sweater, and show her how it looks on them.

iCamShare also makes a great gift for anyone. It's easy-to-use interface means that Dad can send a video mail without pouring through manuals and Dummy's guides.

You can try iCamShare before you buy, to see just how easy and fun it is! When you decide to buy it, you can use the built-in purchase system, or buy from our web store for only $14.95 USD.

iCamShare works with Apple's iSight, and most other webcams that work on OS X. Also, many camcorders with FireWire (aka, 1394, iLink) can work as web cams on OS X. Give it a try!

iCamShare works with many OS X-based e-mail applications, including Apple's Mail application, Microsoft Entourage, Eudora, and others.

About Arbor Bits

Arbor Bits (www.arborbits.com) develops and sells software which provides new uses for personal computers. Our software is sold on-line, and allows customers to "try before you buy". Arbor Bits looks forward to offering powerful and interesting new products, designed for ease-of-use, at affordable prices.


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