Comments on: Back to the Mac: FaceTime on the Mac http://gigaom.com/2010/10/20/back-to-the-mac-facetime-on-the-mac/ Sun, 19 May 2013 03:33:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jason Christ http://gigaom.com/2010/10/20/back-to-the-mac-facetime-on-the-mac/#comment-392050 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:40:16 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=54130#comment-392050 That’s correct. I just tried calling myself to test it out… didn’t work. I look forward to chatting with friends soon.

]]> By: Josh Sunshine http://gigaom.com/2010/10/20/back-to-the-mac-facetime-on-the-mac/#comment-392049 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:42:48 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=54130#comment-392049 Also found out that there are special FaceTime URLs you can type into Safari to get FaceTime to pop up and call someone. They are:

facetime://appleID

facetime://phoneNumber

facetime://emailAddress

(Obviously you replace with the details of the person you want to call. I also note that FaceTime is smart enough not to let you call yourself.

]]> By: Josh Sunshine http://gigaom.com/2010/10/20/back-to-the-mac-facetime-on-the-mac/#comment-392048 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:26:05 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=54130#comment-392048 I just downloaded FaceTime for Mac and tested it with a friend who has an iPhone 4.

Video quality was high, as you’d expect with both devices on Wi-Fi, as was audio. A nice touch is you can receive a FaceTime call on your Mac even if the application isn’t running. It opens itself when you get a call. There are also so slick animations, such as the window rotating when the iPhone was put into landscape, and there was a nice flipping effect when my contact swapped to the rear camera on his iPhone.

All in all, FaceTime on the Mac is pretty nice. The only gripe I have is that it’s a standalone app and isn’t built into iChat.

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