Wayne Priestley

Trying to have a video conversation with someone on a PC when your on a Mac isn’t as easy as you’d think.

I spent a few hours on this problem to help my daughter talk to her friends on their PC’s from her Mac.

After Googling, and spending a few hours searching through the results and going to links suggested by Twitter users I ended up looking at aMSN, after a recommendation by @SwitchMac.

I was a little confused at first, thinking he was talking about MSN for Mac.
After heading over to their site I downloaded the software and installed it on her Mac.

It’s not the fastest messenger app, nor is it the best looking UI, but it’s not even up to version 1 yet so give it a little time and there should be some nice improvements such as audio conversations.

After a few minutes it was installed and she was up and running.
Starting a video chat was straight forward once she found a friend willing to have a video chat.

I was surprised that aMSN hasn’t been blogged about a little more as it’s a very simple way of Video chatting with Pc users.

It has some plugins available along with some different skins so you can customize the look to the way you like.