Nov 11

Gtalk +1: Skype no longer the only Mac-to-PC Video Chat application

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Prior to today, Skype was the only IM program that allowed voice+video chat between Mac and PC users (maybe Aim worked, but I don’t know anyone who still uses Aim). The Mac version of MSN only supported Mac to PC video chats for enterprises, leaving the rest of us in the dark. Now that’s a problem because I have more friends that use MSN then Skype (but of course everyone has a gmail account these days and can use gtalk). In comes Google to save the day!

Starting today, you can download a plugin that will allow you to have video chats straight from your gmail window (which is probably open all the time anyway…or several times a day if you’re like me).  Works on Windows XP and Mac OS 10.4 and above. Download from here and read Google’s announcement on their official blog here. Now I know that they didn’t come up with this for the sole purpose of allowing PC and Mac users to have video chats, but  that’s the aspect of this that interests me the most! What this means to you may be totally different. Maybe you don’t care about video chat? Maybe you don’t have a webcam? For the rest of us who do care this is another piece of awesome news coming out of an awesome company :)

Hmm Google’s gtalk becomes more and more relevant and theres another reason to kick Microsoft’s MSN messenger out the door? Seems to be a common theme these days when discussing anything by those two companies.

4 Comments so far

  1. Ron Pher November 11th, 2008 11:37 pm

    I have been using gmail for ages… and if i have access to internet, my gmail is always open….

    I’ll check this plugin out soon….

  2. Mark S December 1st, 2008 6:35 am

    …and here I was, coconut wireless in hand… believing myself at the fore of communication technology. Why just the other day I discovered that cans of Oxford corned beef made better mouthpieces then Ocean Tuna cans :O

    Nice home you have here… black and blue(green?) :)

  3. Shiva December 19th, 2008 11:13 pm

    Hey Marky mark! Dude where have you been? Been ages since we last chatted! Send me your real email address (or is it really the primeminister one?) so we can catch up man!

  4. Mark S December 22nd, 2008 5:05 pm

    Ages indeed. I’ll give you a buzz with my *real* address in another two weeks :P

    Should be launching my new site around then and will finally settle on an addy that i’ll actually use.

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