Wow!

I followed the instructions and now don’t need to use MSN Messenger to talk to my MSN buddies (who usually have a Hotmail email address) as I can now talk to them using iChat using a Jabber server.

Fantastic, it works!

The above screen grab shows my ‘Buddies’ (AIM iChat users) ‘Bonjour’ (local Network in Ultralab users and ‘Jabber’ users (MSN contacts). Hal is talking to me from MSN Messenger, and I’m getting his message through iChat (via Jabber).

Depending on the free Jabber server you use, you can access other chat users (eg Yahoo Messenger! and ICQ). Test it if you can, leave your comments here below!

Now I don’t have to ever run MSN ever again!

Wow!

How cool is this?

Working with both iChat AV and GarageBand 3 part of Apple’s iLife product suite I can record audio conversations straight into iChat and it splits the participants into their own GarageBand tracks.

This means contributions can be credited after the call without guessing who’s voice it is, just imagine the possibilities here for distance learning and online assessment of distance learners….

Mark and myself have started the experiment here, does anyone want to join us?

This means people from different locations (countries apart!) could sing together, or the entire contribution by someone in an iChat conference call could be listened to by muting other tracks.

Awesome.

Simply start iChat and GarageBand (don’t matter which you start first) then start a audio call, tell the participants you are going to record the conversation and hit ‘Record’ in GarageBand leaving Apple to do the hard work.

Leonie and myself had a play with Photo Booth on the iMac G5.

Very cool application!

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