iChat is actually useful

So even though we’ve only had Leopard for a week the new iChat has already shown itself to be super useful. The other day I did some screen sharing to go over some code with Yan upstairs. Just now I tried to help out Jonathan at home with an Automator issue.

It all just worked, I could see their screens and control everything. Even over an internet connection to Jonathan’s house the quality was pretty good. There was no silly firewall holes to open or VNC thingies to configure, just click click accept done.

We could even smush Yan’s head so he looks like a cross between Jay Leno and a Street Fighter. I wonder if that was one of the 300 features that Steve Jobs was touting.

“Feature #231: Allow users to crush Yan’s head”