FaceTime for Mac: Video hands-onAfter some initial downloading hiccups (but thanks for those extra copies of the iWork demo, Apple) the FaceTime Mac beta is up and running.
Setup is dead simple -- enter your MobileMe or Apple ID, or sign up for one if you don't have it. Sign in and you're ready to go. Your email address is your service locator, that's how folks will find you.
There's no resolution settings, no tweaking to do -- considering that most of your chat partners are on iOS devices, that makes perfect sense.
When your contact list comes up (pulled from Address Book), just start typing a name and the list will scroll to the contact. Double-click to call. You can add favorites to distinguish between iPhones and desktop FaceTime setups.
Josh noted that you can also start a call from Mac OS X via URLs like facetime://appleid or facetime://email@address or facetime://phone# -- just put them in Safari's address bar.
In the Preferences, you can add secondary email addresses that callers use to locate you; you'll have to validate those before they're active. The beta status of the app is evident in some text corruption in those fields, but video and audio seem smooth. You can quickly switch from portrait to landscape, but that's about it.
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