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June 29, 2003

iChatAV

Apple just released iChatAV, the latest upgrade to their popular AIM client. The big addition is the ability to have voice and/or video chats with people. Honestly, I was skeptical as to how well it would work. I've been trying these types of clients since 95 when CuSeeMe came out. They never worked right. First, it was always a pain to actually connect to people and initiate a chat. Second, the quality always sucked hard. Even when both parties were on a high speed T1 connection, it still was unusable. So I had decided not to even try this new iChatAV. But here I am at work, doing very little so I thought I'd download it. I logged on to aim as normal and went about my business. Then I saw a friend, Dan logged had logged in and this strange speaker symbol appeared next to his name. So I clicked on it. After a few moments I heard Dan's voice coming from my laptop speakers. All of a sudden we were chatting normally. Super good sound quality (maybe a little quiet on my laptop). I'm a believer. I'm even behind a firewall and it worked without modification. Now I wish I could try the video chat feature, but unfortunately, I do not have a video camera. Maybe when my roommate gets his DV cam back I'll try it.

Posted by wonko at June 29, 2003 11:11 AM

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