Lion’s version of iChat is the best implementation of OS X’s built-in chat client to date. But it still lacks the features of third-party instant messaging clients. Apple first offered iChat in 2002, ...

Leopard's iChat Theater feature makes remote video presentations far easier and more flexible than before. But the experience doesn't always match up with the elegant effect of Apple's demos.

Occasionally a situation arises where you need to transfer a file to someone but you have forgotten your external hard drive or burnable disc. In these situations, you can set up a private network and ...

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iChat Theater To help you share visual information with others, Mac OS X 10.5 adds iChat Theater, which lets you display an iPhoto slideshow, a Keynote presentation, a QuickTime movie, or anything ...

References discovered in the underlying code of Apple's iOS mobile operating system suggest that some cross-platform features of Mac OS X iChat could make their way to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Personally, I'm an Adium user at heart -- iChat is super nice (especially for a built-in chat program), but it just doesn't have the features and customizability that that Adium does. But if you have ...

Facebook Chat is a wonderful little service opening you up to the incessant, sub-literate, real-time blatherings of the wide array of superficial acquaintances you’ve coalesced over the many years: ...

Leopard's new and improved iChat boasts two features that are sure to enhance both workplace productivity and friends and family tech support: screen sharing and document sharing. In a nutshell, iChat ...

iChat was once the pantheon of instant messaging clients with its delicious aqua interface, no obnoxious ads (like AIM) and a simple ease-of-use that's undeniable. But since the release of iChat AV (a ...

Digging through the bowels of iOS 5.0.1, developer John Heaton found something neat: some code strings that strongly hint iChat functionality will be coming to iOS sometime more or less ...

iChat users may, at times, experience problems in which the program does not connect to the chat service or exhibits lack of certain functionality such as video or audio conferencing. These problems ...