I have iChat capabilities as well but have never used it. I guess besides AOL the only other option is to have a .Mac account? Wendy On 30-Dec-06, at 10:51 AM, Tee Cashmore wrote: > > On 30-Dec-06, at 9:57 AM, ray wheeler wrote: > >> Hello muglo! >> >> New mac is tres cool. Been trying to set up ichat "gratis" through >> AOL so I can ichat with my family, but it is turning out to be not >> so easy. Getting my email access didn't seem to work when I went >> through the on screen prompts. very helpful person from ma Bell >> got it ironed out. but the aol site kept telling me to enter my >> screen name without any spaces. There weren't. Any suggestions? > > Perhaps a little facetious, but AOL is a Windoze thing & has always > had problems relating well to Macs. iChat doesn't like AOL I believe; > I never use it; asw there are many Mac info sites that belittle AOL > in all its forms. HTH. > TTFN, TeeC > ----------------------------------------------------------- > For information about MUGLO: http://www.freewebs.com/muglo > ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- For information about MUGLO: http://www.freewebs.com/muglo -----------------------------------------------------------