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Sunday March 14, 2004

iChat, AIM and Skype

iChat Ever since the latest version of iChat came out, I've been looking forward to video-conferencing with my Dad. So much, in fact, that I went out and bought an iSight. So far, it's been pretty disappointing. We can't do audio between his Windows/AIM client and my Mac/iChat client - and the video doesn't work either. It might be on his end, except that I am able to do audio on my XP machine. I hope it's just because iChat is beta software. So far, it seems like the iSight is a waste of money.

Tonight, we chatted for a few minutes using AIM and it worked - but it was pretty bad. For some reason, our machines only supported half-duplex and we both had to click a button to talk, and then again when we wanted to listen. Kinda like using CB radios. There was no two-way talk like you get on a regular telephone.

Fortunately, a friend sent me an e-mail about Skype last week - so we downloaded and tried that. I must say - Skype is very nice software and the quality was as good as my home phone, if not better. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it supports video. However, it does have an IM client built-in. Oh well - at least we got somewhere on this whole video-conferencing thing. Next step: get the video going. After that, I'll concentrate on getting the whole Windows <-> Mac thing working.

Posted in Mac OS X at Mar 14 2004, 09:27:33 PM MST 9 Comments
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I just read that the Skype people got about $18 million from investors. BTW, if didn't know, these are same two people that created P2P program Kazaa.

Posted by Jeff Jensen on March 15, 2004 at 03:03 AM MST #

Check out http://theregister.co.uk/content/5/36246.html for details of the funding etc.

Posted by Sam Dalton on March 15, 2004 at 05:36 AM MST #

Yeah, but afaict, Skype doesn't run on Mac or Linux. :-( --johnt

Posted by John Tangney on March 16, 2004 at 03:01 PM MST #

I would like to know what kind of Mac configuration (specialy processor et memory) and OS they hope to connect for "getting the whole Windows <-> Mac thing working together" !!!

Posted by Daniel LAMBEY on March 20, 2004 at 03:03 AM MST #

As far as your comment regarding the iSight as being a waste of money, I suppose that value is largely a personal or situational aspect of the product. Personally, I own 2 iSights enabling me to video teleconference with my family while traveling to teach Weblogic and J2EE classes (which is at least 50% of the time). I also ran into a company in the bay area that use iSights to link up co-workers in several distributed locations. Do you realize how much meeting and travel time and expense could be saved if enterprise-wide, quality Video IM is available? I guess that is one more thing to add to security as a reason to switch to MacOS X. Besides Apple's got killer machines!!

Posted by Vince Marco on April 08, 2004 at 10:13 PM MDT #

I have been struggling to get the bosses iSight going - I can establish an audio conference, but no go on the video. iSight sez I have 113kbps upstream and 48 downstream (this is obviously the wrong way around) and I need 50kbps. I upgraded to the next ISP plan, giving me 512/128 - and iSight tells me I still only have 48kbps and I need 50! Skype works straight out of the box. No need to do port forwarding (which I needed to do with the adsl/modem/router my ISP supplied, to get iSight audio going). So, forget about looking at someones head and use Skype. BUT, take their pricing projections with a grain of salt - it costs me a lot more that the advertisied 2 EuroCents per minute to call a mobile, and some mobile networks are not contactable at all (this is in Sydney Australia). I bought a bluetooth headset to use with Skype (with the Mac) and it works as good as any phone.

Posted by iSight = waste of time and money, Skype is enough on April 27, 2005 at 06:31 PM MDT #

you should just download the new verson of AIM for macs

Posted by Megan P. on February 12, 2007 at 07:01 PM MST #

har

Posted by danuta,szaj on June 13, 2010 at 05:06 PM MDT #

har

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