My family is able to talk hands free in Yahoo Instant messaging. It seems all the family is in a windows operating system and I am the only Mac user. They are telling me when they conference each other they use their web cams and are "hands free" by checking a box in the conference they use. Are there any Mac OSX users out there who can help me go "hands free" with the rest of my family? Please help. Nick S.
2006-08-21 12:03:06 · 1 answers · asked by Nick S 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Unfortunately, Yahoo doesn't cater to Mac (and other non-windows) users as much as Windows users. This can be proven with Yahoo Messenger v2.5.3 that wasn't updated for 2 and a half years until the recent 3.0 beta came along.
But there may still be hope for your situation, but you'll have to work hard at it. You can run Virtual PC on your PPC based Mac or Parallel Desktop (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/parallelsdesktopformac.html ) or something similar to run the Windows version of Yahoo Messenger. Another solution may be to use the Jabber portion of iChat with a yahoo messenger transport to communicate. I haven't found a completely compatible transport, but I give up easily sometimes...lol
That's all I can think of for now, but just remeber that you own a Mac, and although your IM experiance is somewhat limited, you enjoy features that Windows users can't even fathom.
2006-08-21 17:53:18 · answer #1 · answered by nathan75932 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋