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Let's face it: virtual face-to-face conversations with people from Antarctica to Zanzibar make video chat the most intimate form of telecommunications yet. Free video chat apps like Camshare's Camfrog Video Chat let you meet and chat with far-flung friends; there's just no way text messages can substitute for two people actually talking to each other, no matter how many emoticons you use.
While Camfrog is optimized for video chat, it's a full-featured chat client that also handles audio and text messaging, file swapping, and other functions. Camfrog isn't the largest chat network, which isn't necessarily a disadvantage! It offers what the others do, generally speaking, including the ability to create your own password-protected chat rooms. Of course, you'll need a Webcam to use Camfrog's video chat feature. We tried Camfrog in both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7.
Installing, registering for, and signing on to Camfrog took just a minute or so. We could sign on to the Camfrog network automatically, save our password, and sign on as invisible, which hides your status from other users. Camfrog's compact interface has a Firefox-style start button (only green instead of orange) that opens a long menu of features and options. Camfrog displayed our screen name with a drop-down menu that let us quickly manage our connection and session. The main view has three tabs: Contacts, Rooms, and Phone/SMS. Camfrog's main features include the main Camfrog room, Video Chat Rooms, Search for Camfrog Users, and Parental Controls. Beneath the main view is a row of icons accessing the Notification List, Video Chat Rooms, Search for Camfrog Users, Send an Instant Message, and Add to Contact List. Users who need more features can click a link to download Camfrog Pro.
Camfrog offers a diverse range of chat rooms covering lots of topics. Online chat can be freewheeling and inappropriate for youngsters, and the problem is critically compounded by video. Camfrog's approach gives parents and other concerned users control over who uses the service, and when, and how. Camfrog Video Chat brings the world to your desktop, and with the greatest of ease.
Camfrog Video Chat- Join live-video chat rooms from around the world - Download Video Previews:Publisher's Description
From Camshare:
Camfrog Video Chat allows you to join real streaming video chat rooms where you can hear, see, and chat with many people at a time. It is videoconferencing software works behind most firewalls and routers. Camfrog Video Chat allows multi-user videoconferencing where you can join a room with up to 1000 users and just click a user name to begin seeing someone. Press the 'talk' button to talk to the entire room with audio. The video chat rooms are hosted by broadband users who are running the Camfrog Video Chat Room Server software so any user can set up their own multi-user video conference for other users to join.
What's new in this version: Version 6.3.223 brings bug-fixes and performance enhancements.
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"Get out your pocket book!"
Version: Camfrog Video Chat 6.4.258
Pros
It works and I used to like itt when it was free.
Cons
The fee for it to work.
Summary
Call me cheap, but I would wear a neck tie on cam if it were free again.
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"clean living people that enjoy chatting in rooms on cam"
Version: Camfrog Video Chat 6.4.253
Pros
Most people that use Camfrog Video are reliable & clean living people that enjoy chatting in rooms on cam
Cons
Most people that use Camfrog Video are reliable & clean living people that enjoy chatting in rooms on cam
Summary
Most people that use Camfrog Video are reliable & clean living people that enjoy chatting in rooms on cam
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"Pretty good for video chat room"
Version: Camfrog Video Chat 6.4.253
Pros
lots of chatroom choices
Cons
subject to lag issues and attacks from hackers that cause interruptions
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"Most people that use Camfrog Video are reliable"
Version: Camfrog Video Chat 6.4.253
Pros
Most people that use Camfrog Video are reliable & clean living people that enjoy chatting in rooms on cam.
Cons
clean living people that enjoy chatting in rooms on cam.
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"My Time Is Not Now"
Version: Camfrog Video Chat 6.3.218
Pros
What do I mean? My chatting days are either over or not ready for prime time. So it is unfair to review the application as I really have not been able to make use of it.
Cons
I don't know but I am sure there are some. Perhaps the lack of it being free as it was at one time for the most part.
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"Your Satisfaction On Camfrog Video Is Guaranteed"
Version: Camfrog Video Chat 6.2.192
Pros
Most people that use Camfrog Video are reliable & clean living people that enjoy chatting in rooms on cam.
Cons
The Camfrog Video choice of chat rooms is fit for all Male or Female ages.
Summary
Even Old people are welcome and can Mix here on Camfrog Video Chat.
Time fly's by on Camfrog Video Chat Rooms.
Updated on Jul 26, 2012
If you cant sleep just join a chat room.
You will always find a Mate waiting.
Sharing your time on cam with you.
enjoy 24/7. -
"No longer free."
Version: Camfrog Video Chat 6.2.192
Pros
None that I can think of.
Cons
Video sessions last for about 10 seconds unless you buy a subscription.
Summary
Run away!
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"Kindle Book Webcam Magic by Dr. Steele better/easier"
Version: Camfrog Video Chat 6.2.190
Pros
Easy, but what impressions do you really want to give, what effects would you really like to create???
Cons
Effects are juvenile, amateurish. Book I read (above) showed me how to posterize myself, create special effects (look like an alien, for example), even look like other people, all live, with LIVE webcam feeds. Suitable for business, making yourself LOOK better, any purpose, not just being silly or hidden completely.
Summary
Once you learn how to produce effects with lighting, in particular, as shown in the book (it's EASY), these kind of effects just don't measure up, not powerful or versatile enough.
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"Another hand in your pocket?"
Version: Camfrog Video Chat 6.2
Pros
The software works ok, although it is crippleware. Being limited to one small video window doesn't provide an open window to the true capabilities of the software. What happened to an unencumbered trial period, guys?
Cons
True to the common new business model, you have to rent the full capability that the program has. Big brother isn't a cam ridden society, It's a society where you have to buy software then let a business put it's hand in your pocket perpetually. I'd rather buy software that I only have to pay for once.
Summary
If not for that subscription required for full capability, I'd give it an a+. Anything that takes us from chat to nearly face to face communication is a step forward. I for one will continue to resist the trend towards allowing every company I deal with putting their hand in my pocket and giving them the keys to my bank account.
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"Handy for quick communication on a network."
Version: Camfrog Video Chat 6.2
Pros
Saves me knocking on doors in the house I share.
Cons
My only complaint is that formatting text is a little glitchy. Creating paragraphs doesn't work as the enter key sends your message, which is OK, but use the spacebar to accomplish the purpose & Camfrog has a mind of its own.
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