Msn Messenger for Mac

[Mattitude]

Question - can you go on cam to someone in a conversation using the isight camera in say a macbook?

 

[Cosmic182]

if you download mercury msn or aMSN you can use it

 

[1337z0r]

You cant with messenger for mac. But you can with aMSN.

 

[Mattitude]

thats mad as microsoft just relased 2008! ok thanks for the replies guys

 

[iSam]

Hopefully a new MSN is in the works.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Hopefully a new MSN is in the works.

They said it was due out with Microsoft Office 2008, but being a typical MS statement I can see that being pushed for a while

 

[titchard]

They said it was due out with Microsoft Office 2008, but being a typical MS statement I can see that being pushed for a while

That is true - I was quite a firm MSN user due to taglines etc, now I have gone back to Adium to claim back some desktop real estate (Tabbed MSN windows and collapsable buddy lists for the win!) hopefully MSN will click onto the tabbed MSN thing - I know you can do it in MSN Live Plus on Windows, I have seen it!

Rich

 

[iSam]

They said it was due out with Microsoft Office 2008, but being a typical MS statement I can see that being pushed for a while

I think we may be waiting for a while...got a bad feeling about it!

 

[RoleyBirkin]

Just going off on a slight tangent

Anyone know how you can choose your status BEFORE Mac Messenger automatically logs you in upon opening?

 

[lloydsj]

it gives you the status option on the sign in screen. this might only show if you havn't got it to save your password?

 

[RoleyBirkin]

I don't get a sign-in screen. If I load the prog, it signs me right in.

 

[Aspect]

Just get skype mate. I found aMSN to be a horrible app, even if video did work with it.

 

[RobH]

My girfriend who is currently on placement in Germany uses a MacBook and we tried video chat on aMSN last night because the Microsoft version doesn't support it. It worked but it was horrible compared to Skype. For OSX Skype has been the best program for video calls that we have found and we've tried many programs since September last year when she moved out there. We finally managed to get iChat working but it is not that easy to use because you need to play around with accounts and settings, it's just a mess.

Skype has it's benefits as well because it offers cheap calls and you can also send SMS from it which we use all the time considering mobile calls cost a bomb to another country (I can't see how routing a call between european countries costs so much when you are on the same network).

 

[hendrix]

I don't get a sign-in screen. If I load the prog, it signs me right in.

Sign out once logged in, then you can chose the status, then sign back in. Should work i think.

 

[RoleyBirkin]

^Cheers.

 

[Phate]

aMSN is just crap.

I use Mercury all the time, tabbed conversations, video is good - the only thing I find it sucks at is transfers, but I hardly use that anyway.

 

[RoleyBirkin]

Also...

I've set up a messenger account using a gmail email

Can I import contacts from another messenger account into the gmail one

I know you can on WindowsMessenger, but don't see it on MacMessenger.

 

[gumbald]

I've gone back to using Microsoft Messenger on Mac, seeing as I kept getting bounces on Adium and aMSN. Strange, I've started getting bounces on Pidgin on my PC, when Live Messenger is also fine. I think they've moved the goalposts again.

 

[RoleyBirkin]

Solved my problem above thus:

Log in on PC messenger old acc, export contacts.
Log in on PC messenger old acc, import contacts.
Log in on MAC messenger new acc - all contacts present.