How Many Ways Can You Talk Free On Your Mac?
I love to chat and the Mac is the place to chat. Chat is free. Mostly. How many ways can you chat on your Mac without spending money.
Apple’s Mac OS X comes with iChat AV. Skype comes with telephone connections and PC users. What else is there?
Did I mention that I like Skype and it’s free? I once called it the future of the video iPhone. If only I could get Steve Jobs and AT&T to agree with me.
The fact is, the Mac is loaded with ways to chat, starting with OS X’s built in iChat AV. Now at version 3 for Tiger,.... (excerpted).
3 Reader Comments
mushroom_daddy said:
PRO~DUAL~INTEL~3/GIGAHERTZ wrote - I actually have my intego virus scanner set not to scan for windows viruses and I hope I pass them on to windows users if I am a host of one and don’t know it.
Of course you might also be passing viruses onto your fellow Mac users who, for whatever reason, have to run Windoze on their Mac’s
Jared B. said:
I’ll make this short and sweat. Well not so sweat, I switched from p.c. about two years ago (really get sick of saying that part) and the ONE THING I HATE ABOUT MY MAC is the fact all my friends are still on p.c.‘s chatting video and voice conferencing all the time and I am left out and I miss it and I hate it.
Yahoo just recently released 3.0 beta and I have yet to try to see if they have got the bugs out but I am not going to get my hopes up.
I have the 1st generation Mac Pro that by now I have put in allot of upgrades such as more ram, more hard drives, brand new expensive external seagate hard drive for time machine and the aluminum key board. But I REFUSE to put windows on my Mac. I have the discs here, I have a p.c. I built and gave to my old lady.
I think it is a Mac SIN to put windows on a Macintosh. I know why steve jobs did it, simply to boost sales and get people to switch and it worked but you won’t catch me with a partitioned hard drive for windows. I actually have my intego virus scanner set not to scan for windows viruses and I hope I pass them on to windows users if I am a host of one and don’t know it.
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mushroom_daddy said:
iChat AV is brilliant for Mac-Mac comms - but that is so often useless in a professional/corporate PC based environment. So it’s usually Adium and Skype for me. Adium (albeit without AV) is great for IM, allowing comms with a very wide-user base, almost independent of platform or protocol. If you need AV—use Skype ....