Using Mac OS® X Lion™, Second Edition

This chapter covers the features of the two communication applications—iChat and FaceTime—including making presentations in video chats and screen sharing.

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Using iChat and FaceTime

iChat and FaceTime are two applications that you can use to communicate with other users in real time. Although iChat has a more extensive reach, FaceTime is more cutting edge. In iChat, you can communicate with a wider range of people, and you do have video capabilities, but you can’t communicate with iPhones as you can with FaceTime.

Using iChat

Instant messaging has come a long way baby—from typed messages with “emoticons” to full-scale audio and video—and Mac’s iChat application provides it all. It is also compatible with the major IM accounts offered by ...