Mac Question

[Mastiker]

I have a mac laptop with a built-in mike and webcam setup. It comes with iChat, which lets me use my webcam, but I can only use it to talk to people who also have a webcam. I downloaded Adium, and I'm not even sure if I can use my webcam with it.

Does anyone know of a program that will let me use my webcam, even with people who don't have one?

[h2orowe]

Msn.

[Mastiker]

Msn.

...

You're saying I should download Msn, Joey? Cause that's like... weak.

[Kaji]

MSN for Mac is crippled like none other, anyway. If you want MSN with video capabilities, use Mercury Messenger.

That said, the recent versions of Skype allow for one-way video chats with two-way audio.

[stsparky]

I have a mac laptop with a built-in mike and webcam setup. It comes with iChat, which lets me use my webcam, but I can only use it to talk to people who also have a webcam. I downloaded Adium, and I'm not even sure if I can use my webcam with it. ... Does anyone know of a program that will let me use my webcam, even with people who don't have one?

Grrr. Is it the mac book or the mac book pro?

iChat - add your MSN buds via Jabber - you can google for instructions. But here as I'm nice. Under preferences go to the accounts tab then select the Service Settings.
Server: talk.google.com
Port: 5223 and check off Connect using SSL, Allow self-sign certificates, Warn.
Location is Macintosh.local
Check off use my machine name
You can also use:
Yahoo
Skype

[Mastiker]

Grrr. Is it the mac book or the mac book pro?


Thanks for the info ^.^

Macbook... does it make a difference?

[Hatsumomo]

I have a MacBook and I just use Adium for my IMing needs. I use iChat if I want to have a webcam conversation. But I do video chats so rarely that I'm fine with the setup I have.

[stsparky]

Thanks for the info ^.^
Macbook... does it make a difference?
Kinda. But you can use wikihow.com for that sort of question in the future. Or IM me.

[darighaz]

AIM works just fine too