iChat and Google Talk - Mac Tips Daily! #359

Listen to Today's Show If you have a Gmail account, you may have noticed the Chat feature built into their web based email client. This is pretty cool, but you have to be on the web page to chat with your buddies. Well with the latest version of iChat, you can now use Google Talk with iChat AV.

How to do it:

1. Open iChat

2. Go to the iChat menu and choose Preferences.

3. Next click on 'Accounts'. Then, click on the '+' sign in the bottom left hand corner of the iChat window.

4. Now select GOOGLE TALK for the Account type and enter in your Google username and password and click on 'Done'.

Now an iChat box will open up with any of your GoogleTalk friends.

If it doesn't appear, with iChat as the active app, go to the 'Window' menu and choose 'Jabber List'

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Create iChat Groups - Mac Tips Daily! #369

Listen to this Episode! If you use iChat AV with the Mac you may have seen the option to Create groups when you add a buddy. This is extremely useful for sorting out large groups of contacts. For example, I have groups such as Friends, Family, Mac Tips Daily contacts, Cell Phones, Work, and more. This is really helpful for me to find the person I want to IM. I have about 40 contacts that I IM with so these groups are wonderful. How to do it: 1. Open iChat 2. Click on the '+' sign and choose 'ADD GROUP'. 3. Enter a group name and click on 'ADD'. 3. Now sort your contacts by drag and dropping them into the groups you created. That's all there is to it!