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    Video chatting in MSN on a MacBook?!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by sander1991, Aug 9, 2007.

  1. sander1991

    sander1991 Notebook Consultant

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    The subject actually says it all..

    I want to do some video chatting in MSN Messenger on my MacBook, but I don't know how to??

    Can someone please help me??

    //SANDER
     
    sander1991, Aug 9, 2007
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  2. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    Unfortunately Microsoft doesn't do much to MSN Messenger for Mac...the best that I can recommend is aMSN if you want to webcam support on MSN Messenger (which still isn't very good). iChat and Skype do video chatting better, but they don't support MSN.

    I really wish Apple would get up and make iChat compatible with multiple IMs. Its not like keeping MSN and Yahoo out is going to persuade users to switch to AOL. They'll just end up not using iChat.
     
    Sam, Aug 9, 2007
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    johnation33 Notebook Geek

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    actually ichat can connect to msn, using jabber transport
     
    johnation33, Aug 9, 2007
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  4. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    Not very well though. I've heard its really buggy.
     
    Sam, Aug 9, 2007
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    Xander Paranoid Android

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    Yeah, and one of those bugs is that video chatting does not work.
     
    Xander, Aug 9, 2007
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    sander1991 Notebook Consultant

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    Well, thanks everyone.. I decided to download aMsn.. :)
     
    sander1991, Aug 10, 2007
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    sander1991 Notebook Consultant

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    But then 5 minutes later I uninstalled it again.. I think I can live without video chat..
     
    sander1991, Aug 10, 2007
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    convince your friends to use skype
     
    circa86, Aug 10, 2007
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  9. fan of laptop

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    A lot of my friends are using MSN and I do not think that it is possible that I convince them to use skype. Apple must do something about this.
     
    fan of laptop, Aug 10, 2007
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    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    VMware, Windows, MSN live messenger and Mess.be patch.

    Only way to go. Even if iChat would work with MSN it would not be as good as MSN live messenger.
     
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    It also works well with parallels in coherence mode. And yes apple should get off their ass and do something about this. I tried amsn once, and like the poster, I uninstalled it 5 minutes later. Your only option is pretty much adium, the only polished im client that supports multiple im's.

    Hopefully apple will get its act together for ichat 3
     
    00fez, Aug 10, 2007
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