Re: Anyone here iChat users?
- From: peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Ceresole)
- Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:49:46 +0100
Martin S Taylor <mst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I use it quite a lot, though I do hate its idiosyncrasies.
I reckon it works well for what I want it to do, which is to talk to my
relatives down the road and abroad. Picture is very important to me, and
it's good, obviously depending on the quality of the link.
File transfer is excellent and receiving at my end is superbly simple;
it may be idiosyncratic, but it's totally instinctive. I've never needed
to look up the help.
I still haven't figured out
a) the difference between two kinds of chat you can initiate
What two kinds? The multi-user or single user? I always chat to a single
user, but when exceptionally it's multi-user working it ourt has always
been pretty easy.
b) why sometimes I can't initiate a video chat until I've initiated a text
chat
I have only seen that very exceptionally- it's strictly a workaround and
it probably means that one of the two chatters, or the AIM server, has a
temporary problem.
c) why, when you invite someone to a video chat, they have to click on the
invitation before they can see the 'Accept' button
I think that's just the way it works, and is no problem for me.
d) why sometimes it Just Doesn't Work.
I think it may be pushing the system- and remember that that includes a
central server which may be temporarily bunged up.
I wish iChat could join MSN chats, with the video working as well :(
Me too. Have you looked at Adium? You can't use video with Adium, but
everything else is pretty good.
But the video is the whole point for me; I've never even tried Adium/MSN
Chats for that reason. No video? Broken. Useless.
As to Skype, "It Just Works", as they used to say
Yes it does- better now than it used to. Picture quality has become
excellent, although no better or worse than iChat. But its interface
isn't nearly as easy to use as iChat and its buddy list. With Skype you
have to log in and look... With iChat it's just *there* and doesn't get
in the way of anything else, except maybe Skype.
The main advantage of Skype is the ability to chat easily with PCs.
There is an iChat video client for PCs, but in my experience (of PC
users at the other end) it's flaky as hell and getting a video
connection involves silly amounts of juju. While Skype, to the same
users, Just Works. However, when things go wrong, Skype has been the
only application that will totally wedge my iG5/10.4.11, requiring a
restart. That happens fairly easily when iChat is running
simultaneously. But then it's fairly easy to kill iChat for the duration
of the Skype session.
The real test is in use; although I have Skype installed I don't use it
often. I have iChat running all the time, and use it frequently. But
almost all of my family use Macs, so video chats are good and reliable.
--
Peter
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