Hi Jane, I was thinking that if you knew your Apple Store pretty well, and could check out computers on display, you could figure out the screen names for a text or audio iChat session in a store (or you could even turn iChat on, and post a "we're here" message to this list!). This is silly, but I couldn't help thinking that Darcy and Holly have done all those Screenless Switchers podcasts with iChat recorded with Audio HiJack Pro, maybe they could do one for a real time session in an Apple Store! (Who knows? the Apple Store might like the publicity?<smile>) As long as there's someone there to accept the iChat session, it doesn't have to be a videochat.
OK, I'm being frivolous. Just an amusing idea ;) Cheers, Esther On Nov 26, 2007 at 03:11PM, Jane Lee wrote: >Hi Esther,Yeah, I love messing around with iChat in the stores ;) However, >all the times I tried initiating a videochat or tried accepting one that was >not in-store, it failed. Haven't had much luck with anything other than >text. > >cheers, >jane > >On Nov 26, 2007 2:45 PM, Esther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Jane, Cara, Darcy, and Others, >> >> I meant to follow up on this thread earlier when some folks were saying >> how >> they wished they had an Apple Store close to them. While making an >> earlier >> post to list about how to make concierge appointments with the genius bar >> at >> your local Apple Store on the web, I came across a "fan" site about Apple >> Stores, their history, etc. One of the pages was about how to iChatAV >> with >> an Apple Store. This gave the iChat screen names for computers on the >> show room of retail Apple Stores. The author tried about 60 of these >> stores >> randomly, and got typically only 3 or 4 of these with machines running >> iChatAV >> at these random times. In general, somebody had to be near one of these >> computers who knew how to answer an iChat session and be willing to >> respond, and that generally meant using the video portion of iChat to get >> somebody's attention. >> >> Still, how cool would it be if the next time a list member went to visit >> an >> Apple Store you could all find one of these active machines and start >> an iChat session with your questions about new features/products to >> check out! I can even imagine Darcy and Holly recording one of these >> sessions for Screenless Switchers (smile). >> >> Here's the link to the page about "iChatAV with Apple Store": >> >> http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/ichatav.html >> >> The Apple Store computers all have screen names like ars047.05 >> where the first part is the Apple Retail Store number and the last >> two digits are the computer number. >> >> And the post about how to make a genius bar appointment on the >> web, assuming that you can get to a nearby Apple Store, is at >> this URL in the mailing list archives: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg19144.html >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> >> >> On Nov 25, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Jane Lee wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> Hey Cara. >> >> >>> I had a problem with my MacBook and tried to make concierge >> >> >>> appointments at >> >> >>> the half dozen Apple Stores in and around LA - Century City, Grove, >> >> >>> Beverly >> >> >>> Center, Santa Monica, Glendale, Northridge, Pasadena, Sherman Oaks >> - >> >> >>> and >> >> >>> none of them had open spots for the Genius Bar. A week after >> >> >>> looking at the >> >> >>> concierge sites every few hours, I managed to snag one at Century >> >> >>> City two >> >> >>> days in advance at the only time that was available which was >> highly >> >> >>> inconvenient, and ended up with an empty brained infuriating Genius >> >> >>> who >> >> >>> didn't solve the problem because I found a workaround during that >> >> >>> week it >> >> >>> took to get an appointment but would have liked to get the problem >> >> >>> looked at >> >> >>> anyway. >> >> > >
