ichat on windows?

Posted By: jjesse | Aug 18th, 2008 @ 5:40 PM
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#Aug 18th, 2008 @ 5:40 PM
jjesse
jjesse
My wife has a macbook and one of the things she loves is iChat.  She and her girlfriends chat over the webcam even though sometimes they might be under a mile away.
Now that I'm back traveling, what's the best for the two of us to "ichat" on my windows vista box and she on her macbook?
#Aug 18th, 2008 @ 5:54 PM
jjesse
jjesse
confused are you recommending that i switch her over to yahoo messanger and then use yahoo messanger on my laptop as well?  or if i'm on yahoo messanger and she's on ichat can we talk over webcams?
#Aug 18th, 2008 @ 5:57 PM
La Bomba
La Bomba
Boing!
iChat is great, unfortunately it doesn't seem to be compatible with any other IM client, the only solution would be for you both to switch over to an IM client that works on both the Mac and the PC well, Yahoo does it pretty good.

Less video lag if you are going thru the same IM service as well.

Edit: It appears as though AIM is compatible with iChat, but I wouldn't touch anything made by AOL with a ten foot pole.
#Aug 18th, 2008 @ 6:05 PM
jjesse
jjesse
Guess I wil use AIM then, thanks.  I don't want to use it but chatting w/ wife is nice to do
#Aug 18th, 2008 @ 6:11 PM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
You could use skype Smiley that's what a lot do who have a Mac and a PC.
#Aug 18th, 2008 @ 6:21 PM
jjesse
jjesse
Once again would have to teach my wife a new program but I think I can do that
#Aug 18th, 2008 @ 10:27 PM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
Well skype is easy - and never underestimate your wife Wink
#Aug 19th, 2008 @ 9:44 AM
GoddersUK
GoddersUK
I CAN has cheezburger and you CAN'T has stop me!
iChat AV is an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), .Mac, ICQ and XMPP client by Apple Inc. for their Mac OS X operating system. Using a Jabber-like protocol and Bonjour for user discovery, it also allows for LAN communication. iChat's AIM support is fully endorsed by AOL, and uses their official implementation of the AIM OSCAR protocol. Using a Jabber transport, iChat users may also integrate their MSN, Yahoo! and Google Talk contacts into the Jabber pane. from wikipedia
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