I Bought a Mac - Latest Comments in iChat: Taking IM to the Next Level

Re: iChat: Taking IM to the Next Level

Tom Holliger — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:05:02 -0000

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

Re: iChat: Taking IM to the Next Level

Shaun Andrews — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:07:57 -0000

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.

Re: iChat: Taking IM to the Next Level

ijustine — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:45:28 -0000

Video chat is awesome. So much easier than typing and not as analog as actually talking!

Re: iChat: Taking IM to the Next Level

Chris Diamond — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:10:20 -0000

All I use is iChat. Its awesome a really great program.

Re: iChat: Taking IM to the Next Level

Kenny Saunders — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:30:07 -0000

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.

Re: iChat: Taking IM to the Next Level

Brent — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:39:01 -0000

Bummer, sorry... Oh well, there's plenty of other coolness that is Mac for you right?

Re: iChat: Taking IM to the Next Level

Mr Funk — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:51:47 -0000

Nothing, because I'm not an American (nobody here has AOL messenger). Kinda like AppleTV really :)

Re: iChat: Taking IM to the Next Level

Andre Deminiac — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:01:25 -0000

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.

Re: iChat: Taking IM to the Next Level

Keith — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:32:22 -0000

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.