aMSN and iSight camera

If you’re a new Macinstosh owner you obviously are aware of the new built in iSight camera on your machine. If you have an AIM or .Mac account you can use iChat with this camera and utilize video chat. Now if you’ve downloaded mac messenger you may have noticed that is does not support webcam use. And you may think hmm, what a waste, I have a built in web cam, but I’m limited to one program to use it. Perhaps you don’t have any friends or family using AIM, and we all know that probably the most popular chat clients out there is MSN.

In steps aMSN an MSN clone that recognizes your isight camera, and enables users to video chat. I downloaded this program yesterday and immediately sent a request to view my webcam to a friend. Worked without any configuring. If you are currently using your gmail account to log into MSN (as I am), it also works with aMSN.

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6 Responses to “aMSN and iSight camera”

  1. Matt Ogram Says:
    August 18, 2007 at 11:23 pm | Reply

    Thanks for this piece of info, my new MacBook is arriving soon, and I knew that the standard MSN messenger doesn’t support the iSight built in camera… I’ll try aMSN

    That’s a load off my mind =)

    Thanks

  2. twoarmtom Says:
    August 23, 2007 at 3:39 am | Reply

    No problem, glad you like the info.

  3. crystal Says:
    June 6, 2008 at 1:05 pm | Reply

    i have bought MacBook and instaled aMsn but people who i wonna chat with on webcam can not see me and me neither. but camera works perfectly on skype… can anyone give me any advices how to solve the problem? would really appreciate it.

  4. Styles Says:
    July 8, 2008 at 6:21 am | Reply

    we have bought a imac and we downloaded amsn but everytime we send the webcam the person gets it and it conects but then it disconects is there somthing wrong with my amsn or cans someone tell me why its is?

    thankyou

  5. Aaron Says:
    May 20, 2009 at 1:22 am | Reply

    dude this crap dont even work, everytime i want to share web cam i cant see the other persons, it just cancal the connection and they as for mine all they can see is a white screen

    • twoarmtom Says:
      May 20, 2009 at 1:45 am | Reply

      FYI dude, this post is almost two years old, I didn’t develop the application so perhaps you should email the developer. It work two years ago when I used it.

      Get an AIM account and use iChat, it’s simple. You could also try Google Video Chat or Skype, all free and cross platform (Windows/Mac)

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