On Jan 10, 2008, at 19:22 , Greg Schoettmer wrote: > Bill, > Just before Christmas I had a one-to-one session and covered > iChat with > the instructor. I found out the following: > > 1) iChat "sorta" works with AOL/AIM. It is not dependable. He > [strongly] > recommended that both parties need a .Mac account for iChat to be > reliable.
Hmm.... I was wondering about this. > 2) The advertisements that show the Mac screen with multiple video > chats > going on, i.e. up to 3 people/pictures on your Mac, requires a .Mac > account. Sheesh. > I asked the guy to repeat these items several times to make sure I > heard it right. I wanted to make sure my conclusion was right, that > being > that if you intend to video chat with anyone that is either on a PC > or does > not have a .Mac account, forget iChat and use Skype. It's > bulletproof, free > and millions of people use it. Lee and Harry also chimed in with the Skype advice, and I was 98% sure this would be the right path. I'll change that to 99.97% sure, leaving 0.03% for some unforeseen snafu due to something I've set up badly. Thanks, Bill _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
