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Brin · 12-03-2006, 11:21

Ive just found "Squidcam"

"Welcome to SquidCam, the most convenient video chat application available for Mac OS X today. SquidCam was designed to make video chat sessions easy and reliable under Mac OS X. SquidCam is capable of sending audio, video, and text messages over a standard network or Internet connection."

The application will support both Mac and Pc and seems to be straightforward to set up just requiring both ends to know each others IP addy. It also suggests that users signup and obtain a "Webloid" as an aid to this.

"A webloID is a unique identifier associated with an account you can create on Weblopedia. It offers a simple way for people to contact you using SquidCam. Setting up a webloID is easy. Users that have a dynamic IP address or even use multiple NAT devices will be able to establish connections using the upcoming release of SquidCam and a webloID. "

Has anyone come across this before? Im always wary of a catch

When my daughter wakes up this afternoon (typical hardworking student!) I get her to download the mac version and give it ago.

12-03-2006, 11:21	#11
Brin Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Swindon Posts: 44	Re: Mac to PC video chat - anyone doing this? Ive just found "Squidcam" "Welcome to SquidCam, the most convenient video chat application available for Mac OS X today. SquidCam was designed to make video chat sessions easy and reliable under Mac OS X. SquidCam is capable of sending audio, video, and text messages over a standard network or Internet connection." The application will support both Mac and Pc and seems to be straightforward to set up just requiring both ends to know each others IP addy. It also suggests that users signup and obtain a "Webloid" as an aid to this. "A webloID is a unique identifier associated with an account you can create on Weblopedia. It offers a simple way for people to contact you using SquidCam. Setting up a webloID is easy. Users that have a dynamic IP address or even use multiple NAT devices will be able to establish connections using the upcoming release of SquidCam and a webloID. " Has anyone come across this before? Im always wary of a catch When my daughter wakes up this afternoon (typical hardworking student!) I get her to download the mac version and give it ago.