iChat 2.1 beta

Jeff Carlson's avatar Jeff Carlson on February 9, 2004

Apple has released a public beta of iChat 2.1, which makes it possible to engage in video and audio chats with Windows users running AIM 5.5. (Of course, I don’t know anyone using Windows and a Web cam, so I haven’t been able to test it yet.)

iChat 2.1b also introduces a strange limitation: if you send more than five messages within 10 seconds, you get a message that says

The AIM service could not send the message: You have sent too much data too quickly. Please wait a little while before sending more.

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Author, photographer, and late-nighter Jeff Carlson writes for outlets such as Popular Photography, DPReview, Creative Pro, and others, and is a contributing editor for TidBITS. He is the author of Take Control of Your Digital Photos; The Photographer's Guide to Luminar AI, Take Control of Apple Watch, and Take Control of Your Digital Storage, among many other titles.