Waterfall Web » messenger im video conference http://www.waterfallweb.net website design, development, marketing and management (and the odd gadget) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:42:05 +0000 en hourly 1 Video Conferencing with Messenger http://www.waterfallweb.net/archives/2008/04/video-conferencing-with-messenger/ http://www.waterfallweb.net/archives/2008/04/video-conferencing-with-messenger/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:36:40 +0000 Jason http://www.idunno.com.au/?p=24 Video conferencing with Windows Live Messenger was always a great way to keep in touch with family spread far and wide. It was a bit of a pain hooking up the webcam though, so it didn’t really happen as often as it should.

So my new Macbook has a built-in webcam. Handy! Time to get back to using video.

Except everyone I know uses Windows Live Messenger.

I had Adium installed – a great little IM (Instant Messaging) program that you can use to type notes to people with Live Messenger (among others). But no video.

So I tried Yahoo Messenger. Yep, it has video. Yep, you can message people using Live Messenger. But you can’t video conference with people using Live messenger. Sigh.

Microsoft even make a version of Messenger for the Mac. But would you guess? No video!

It was actually while writing this post that i found aMSN – a Live messenger clone that actually supports video! So instead of signing off this post with despair, I have a glimmer of hope. About to download it and try it out now…

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