In this video, viewers are shown how to use the iChat feature on a Mac computer. To begin, the video creator instructs us to open Safari (or your preferred) browser and to navigate to www.aim.com. This is the AOL Instant Messenger site (AIM) and from here, you are able to create a screen name. This is important because you have to have a screen name with a instant messaging service to be able to chat using the iChat application.
After creating your account and logging in, you are to open the iChat application on your computer. To configure iChat and your new screen name, go to the preferences tab at the top of the page, click on 'account setup' and add your new AIM screen name and password. You are now able to use your Mac's webcam and chat with your friends.
IChat has been out for what seems forever now without update, and so has MSN 3.5. My big gripe is that there is no simple cross platform webcamming solution. IChat AV is great, but only my family members use macs.
The sad truth is that since most of the people i know use PCs, they use MSN 6 (which for those of you that don't know, has AV support.) However, the mac version of MSN, 3.5, sucks and does not support AV. MSN could really get a leg up over apple if they could bring out MSN 6 for mac (I guess it would be MSN 4.but whatever.) or vice versa. If Apple come out with iChat AV 2 for PC, it could really hit microsoft hard. So whats the freakin hold up? Anyone know anything?
Just curious. Haha.MS will never release an non-crippled product for the Mac.keep dreaming. We have come to an age where even apps don't matter to people. It didn't matter if iTunes and iTMS was available only for Macs.people stuck with PCs. It doesn't matter that iChat + excellent AV features is available only for Macs.people stick with PCs. In general, people don't seem to care about OS X and the fact that it's unaffected by current viruses. They don't mind getting viruses, or getting Bonzi Buddy or all that shit that PCs are bombarded.
It's frustrating but that's how it is. If the apps and the OS can't make someone switch.what will? I don't even think prices will do. The mentality of using MS products and buying PCs over Macs is ingrained in people. Nothing anyone can do about it. Apple has little choice but to just start porting Mac-only products such as iChat to the PC. This won't help Apple sell more Macs.
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But at least the Mac products will have a larger userbase. I was using the latest version of MSN messenger on a PC the other day, and I was honestly impressed, it blew the socks off AIM, and was comparable to iChat. The UI was still WAY to cluttered, and the layout was still very lame, but the features were great.
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Lots of good emoticons, nice, large buddy avatars, audio AND video chat(didn't use it, can't say how robust it is) Easy access to some options. It was a good program, I wouldn't mind having that on my mac, or I wouldn't mind if iChat had some better emoticons and bigger avatars.