About This Mac » video chat http://www.aboutthismac.com News, Tips and Tricks for Your Mac Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:08:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Google Adds Video Chat to Gmail http://www.aboutthismac.com/2008/google-adds-video-chat-to-gmail/ http://www.aboutthismac.com/2008/google-adds-video-chat-to-gmail/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:48:59 +0000 iChris http://www.aboutthismac.com/?p=80 Google Video ChatGoogle has (finally?) added video and voice chat capabilities to their gmail service. To enable the service, just visit this site and download and install the plugin. You’ll have to quit your browser once it’s downloaded before you can install it — but don’t worry, it will prompt you if you accidently leave Firefox open.

Then, it’s just a matter of waiting for one of your contacts to have installed it themselves so you can try it out!

You can tell one of your contacts has the video plugin installed because they’ll have a little video camera icon by their name in your contact list like this:

Google Video Chat iCon

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