Computers have nowadays an impressive range of utilizations. One of the most appreciated ones, for the regular users, has something to do with providing free video and audio communicational means, through video chat software. Everyone knows the Yahoo Messenger application, which was specially designed to serve as a chatting environment. But audio calls, video calls and combinations between these two are possible with many other free programs.
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Skype
Skype is probably almost as popular as Messenger is. You can always download it from the internet, with no restraints, the software does not require special features to function on a computer and runs under Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Used for conversations between people who have this software installed on their computers, it will not cost them a penny. However, Skype can also be utilized to make calls from a PC to a mobile phone, for low costs. Nevertheless, coming back to the video chat feature, the software provides high video qualities. You might want to try it the next time when you will need to initiate a video chat session with your friends.
Magic camera
This program is supposed to make magic with your video calls, thanks to some special characteristics. With magic camera you can use the so – called Picture in Picture option, you can add interesting and funny frames to the video images displayed by the web cam and a lot of other effects. You might make your friends to rub their eyes because of some cool webcam emotions or animations. It can also display photos during the video chat sessions and, if you are looking to keep the anonymity, Magic camera can run fake videos in chat rooms.
ManyCam
This software, with its freeware license, is widely used because it works with no problems on any Windows operating system, including Vista, and has no special requirements for a proper functionality. As the name suggests, the software is another tool for your webcam that can work with some other applications in the same time, offering you interesting graphics features. Most programs designed for video chat will only let you use the web cam with a single software, but due to ManyCam, you can activate on Messenger, on Skype and ManyCam in the same time. This happens because it can split a video stream into several other video streams. You only need to choose it as your video source in all the other webcam applications you intend to run in parallel. Besides that, you are always free to use text, time and animation on the web cam images, which will obviously be displayed in all your video chats, no matter what software you use.
Google talk
Google talk will let you talk as much as you want, while being not only heard, but also seen. You can initiate multi chat video sessions, you can use the instant messaging option, video and photo previews and also monitor.
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