i love how ichat av can do video chat... but almost always, i prefer plain ol' text instant messaging over video and for that i typically use adium because it is cleaner. If i do use iChat, there is this great little plug-in called chax that adds tabbed browsing and other nice features, with the same brushed metal look.
Andre
· 2 years ago
I've video conferenced in iChat before (both one and two other people) and I found the reception to be so flakey. The sound would cut out every few seconds, and the quality of the image was really poor too. Of course it could just be my internet connection, but I still wasn't very impressed.
Mr Funk
· 2 years ago
Nothing, because I'm not an American (nobody here has AOL messenger). Kinda like AppleTV really :)
Brent
· 2 years ago
Bummer, sorry... Oh well, there's plenty of other coolness that is Mac for you right?
Kenny Saunders
· 2 years ago
Don't forget you can add Jabber(Gtalk).
I agree with Keith though. I use Adium for all my chatting and I only switch over to iChat for video conferencing. Which isn't that often.
Chris Diamond
· 2 years ago
All I use is iChat. Its awesome a really great program.
Justine
· 2 years ago
Video chat is awesome. So much easier than typing and not as analog as actually talking!
Shaun Andrews
· 2 years ago
I personlly love iChat, but looking at my buddy list, there's only three other people using iChat right now, the rest are on AIM. And like otheres have mentioned, not everyone uses AIM. So, I'm forced to use Adium to chat with those not on AIM, but honeslty I preferr iChat's interface.
Video chat is great, but I find once you add more than one person to the conference, the quality suffers greatly! The Molehill team has tried to do a 4-person conference, only to find that we're looking at blurry static pictures of each other.
Tom Holliger
· 2 years ago
Even no one has AIM here in Europe, you can still use iChat in the office (we use it like this) or with your buddies that have a .mac account, it says, the basic .mac account for chatting stays free of charge... For the rest, you still can use yahoo-messenger
All Comments
I agree with Keith though. I use Adium for all my chatting and I only switch over to iChat for video conferencing. Which isn't that often.
Video chat is great, but I find once you add more than one person to the conference, the quality suffers greatly! The Molehill team has tried to do a 4-person conference, only to find that we're looking at blurry static pictures of each other.
For the rest, you still can use yahoo-messenger