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FaceTime For Mac Is Here and You Can Try It Today

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Apple just announced FaceTime for Mac, allowing people to videochat with iPhone 4 and iPod Touch users right from their computer. You can download a beta version today.

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Putting FaceTime on Macs always seemed like an inevitability, so there's not much of a surprise here. You can pick any of your contacts—be they on Macs, iPhone 4s or iPod Touches—and video chat with them just like you'd expect.

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There's not much to it—even Steve himself said the demo was a short one. One interesting bit to note is that FaceTime isn't baked into iChat, it's its own app. Because people don't wanna TYPE in the future.

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You can download the beta version of FaceTime for Mac on Apple's FaceTime page. [Live.Gizmodo]