Chapter 17. Using iChat
In This Chapter
- Setting Up iChat
- Connecting and Setting Your Global Status
- Configuring Your Online Information
- Working with Your Buddy List
- Communicating with Text, Audio, Video, and More—A Quick Start
- Text Messaging
- Audio Chats
- Video Chats
- iChat Theater
- Screen Sharing
- Applying Parental Controls
- Using the iChat Connection Doctor
- Editing and Adding Additional IM Accounts
iChat enables you to hold text-based conversations with friends and family (known as “buddies”) in real-time—or, with the proper equipment and network connection, to have audio or videoconferences. New to Leopard are the abilities to share your screen and files and change the background or apply special effects during a video chat.
To make full use ...
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