[HOWTO] - Use MSN, Yahoo!, or ICQ in iChat (Tiger only)

[FallOutBoyx530]

i'm not sure by what you mean save your registration and quit psi. registered my three accounts, i don't see any of the people who should be on my buddy list; just 3 server looking things, then i quit, log into ichat and i've sucessfully completed set up the serveres to log into jabber, but i dont see my buddy list on ichat.

[jareddigby]

Can't connect to jabber server to get a account.

[Brigadir]

hey guys is there anyone who could voice or video chat with MSN or yahoo messenger friends? m using MSN through iChat. But here are some problems.
1. I can't have neither voice or video chat with MSN friends.
2.my friends are getting my text messages too late. But m recieving momentaly. Why so?
Pls HELP!!!!

[Lt Major Burns]

Jabber is a very flakey way of [sort of] 'hacking' iChat to let it use MSN or similar protocols. as a result, most features don't work, and the ones that do don't work very well. iChat only supports full video and audio chats for .mac and AIM accounts.

aMSN is an MSN clone that supports video and audio chats, and although it doesn't support audio or video, Adium is the most robust of the messenger clients for the mac.

[Jamie411]

There is another messenger that supports Video, It is called Mercury. It works. I find amsn a little better though.

[Lt Major Burns]

as i said previously, aMSN is the best bet for video chat over msn on the mac.

http://www.cmq.qc.ca/4w/amsn/

[Brigadir]

So is it possible to have both voice and video chat at the same time by MSN? If yes how? Lemme know pls.
Thanx.

[Lt Major Burns]

not as yet. the best bet for that is either Skype or an AIM account through iChat.