Welcome to the iCU2 8 Quick Tour. This tour will give you a quick overview of the features in iCU2. All of the features you love are still available (Quick Messages, Public Rooms, Picture Email, Live Connects/Chats)

Chat Lobbys

Every Server / Directory has a lobby where you can chat with all of your friends in a group, view their video feed, listen to their audio and see a snapshot from their camera each time they send a message in the Chat Lobby.

1. All of iCU2s options can be accessed by clicking on the relevent pull-down menu.

2. The buttons in this area let you do many different things like open your Message Center, Refresh the directory window, Make yourself visible or invisible to the directory.

3. The Chat Lobby. Each iCU2 Server has it's own Lobby (area to text chat in).

4. NEW This area displays the current Speaker or Room DJ. More information about Current Speakers can be found here, and their snapshot is updated and can be viewed live. This area can be minimized or closed entirely. You also find here,easy button on/off controls for your sound in the chat room.

5. The Text Input area lets you send your text to other users in the Chat Lobby. It has color, font and emoticon controls. Delay Timer for the snapshot that will post with your text and clicking the "Talk" bar will put you in cue to use the Audio in the chat room.

6. The Self View window provides a mini-feed of your self view, which you can click on to make full-size. The links provide access to updating your profile, making yourself invisible or visible, camera settings for many cam styles, and a pause button for your live feed.

7. NEW This area shows all current users in the Chat Lobby / Server that you are in.Users listed in Green are Trial users, Blue are Registered users, Black are Administrators and your view of your own name will always be Red when you are visible in the chat lobby. The view of Location and comments can be toggled on or out of view. Typing a user's nickname in the search panel will highlight them for your view in the directory.

8. The Pal List displays your friends that are Online and Offline.

9. The Mini Profile window shows a small version of the profile of the person you have currently selected in your Lobby or Pal List area.

10. The bottom bar shows the connection status of your iCU2. (Offline, Connecting, Online) It also has various icons that will highlight when someone is viewing your Video On Demand, when your live feed is un-paused, when you are set to Do Not Disturb, when your Mic is active in the chat room, when your speakers are on/off and when you receive a quick message. (In that order respectively.)

The File pull-down menu has one option, which is Exit. Clicking on Exit will close your iCU2 Program

The View pull-down menu has the following options:

The Action pull-down menu has the following options:

The Rooms pull-down menu has the following options:

The Pals pull-down menu has the following options:

Normal Visibility for this Pal - The selected Pal will only see you as "Online" in his/her pal list if you are not hidden from the users in the Directory.
Always Visible to this Pal - The selected Pal will see you as "Online" in his/her pal list even if you are invisible to the users in the Directory
Never Visible to this Pal - The selected pal will see you as "Offline" in his/her pal list even if you are visible to the users in the Directory. However, if you send the Pal a Quick Message you will be "Online" in their Pal List.
Rename Pal - Give the selected user in your Pal List a new name
Restore Pal Name - Revert back to the original name of the selected user in your Pal List
Ask for Pal Authorization - Sends a Pal request to the user selected.
Revoke Pal Auth - Removes you from the person's Pal list.
Require Pal Auth - When selected, anyone trying to add you to their Pal List will have to gain authorization
Toggle ICQ Connection - Connect / Disconnect from the ICQ network
Toggle AIM Connection - Connect / Disconnect from the AIM network
Toggle MSN Connection - Connect / Disconnect from the MSN network
Toggle Yahoo Connection - Connect / Disconnect from the Yahoo network
Add External IM Pal - Add a new contact to your ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo Pals.
Delete Pal - Delete selected User from your Pal List

The Tools pull-down menu has the following options:

The Settings pull-down menu has the following options:

This is where your can chat with other users in the same Lobby as you.

Users with or after their names are there to help you if you have any problems and to keep the peace. Mods and Admins can and will block users who are not adhering to the guidelines of that specific lobby.

You can left mouse click on a blue underlined name and get the options shown above. Most are self explanatory. "Show Users Video" will attempt to start a Video on Demand session with the person you have selected.

The User List in the Main Window displays all the current users in the lobby. Each lobby has its own live user list.

This list is color coded for you to find new users and Admin help easily.
User names in
Black: are Administrators - These are employees of iCU2
Blue: are Registered iCU2 Users
Green: are Trial Users
Red: is YOU.

This area can also show Location/Comment detail for each user by using the options in the Main Toolbar.

Use the area on iCU2 that has the as shown below:

After clicking on the you will see a list of Servers that you can choose to enter, as shown below:

Simply click on the Server you wish to go to.

To find out who is viewing your VOD, look for the small green image of a monitor at the bottom right of your directory. It's the one furthest to the left.

If it shows a dark green monitor (as shown above), you have no people VODing you.

If it shows a bright green monitor with a number (as shown above), you have viewers (the number shows how many viewers you have).

If it shows a red monitor with a number (as shown above) you have reached the limit of how many people can view your VOD (video on demand). New people will only be able to view you if you do one of the following:

• Hang up all or selected users, as described below
• Increase your Maximum Viewer Limit
• View a user that is not currently viewing you. In this scenario, that person will also be allowed to view you, regardless of the Maximum Viewers limit you have set.

Clicking on the bright green / red monitor image will display the list of current viewers

You can either click on Hangup All Incoming Video Connections so that you kick everyone from viewing you. They can re-request to view you again though.

Or you can select a specific user from the list and you will get the options below:

Hang Up Video Only Call - will stop that specific person from viewing you until they re-request to view.
Return Video Only Call - will send a VOD request to that person so that you can view their Video On Demand
Send Quick Message - will allow you to send a Quick Message (QM) to that specific person
View Profile - will pull up the extended profile window for that person
Ignore User - will put that specific user on ignore. Placing someone on ignore means you will have NO contact (QMs, Calls, VOD or lobby chat) with that person again until you remove them from your Ignore List

To talk (or play music) to everyone in the Chat Lobby click on the Talk button

If the Talk button is grey (as shown above), no one is the Current Speaker.

If the Talk button is green, you are the current speaker and everyone in the Chat Lobby will hear you

If the Talk button is Red and there is already a Current Speaker, it means you are Queued to be the current speaker. After 30 seconds or so, you will become the Current Speaker, assuming you were next in the queue.

If the Talk button is Red and there is no Current Speaker, there are several possible causes. A moderator may have set to the lobby to only accept Talk requests from Moderators or Demi-Gods. Or you may have been blocked from becoming the Current Speaker for x amount of minutes, hours, days due to something you may have said or done while being the Current Speaker previously.

Users with fast internet connections may want to increase their Maximum Viewers Limit for Video on Demand.

If the bottom right of your ICUII window shows a red monitor with a number (as shown above) you have reached the limit of how many people can view your VOD (video on demand). New people will only be able to view you if you increase your Maximum Viewers Limit.

To increase the Maximum Viewers Limit. go to Settings | Options | Calls & QMs.

In the Multi-User Settings. You can either increase or decrease the Maximum Simultaneous Users to suit your requirements.

5 is the default setting for Maximum Viewers. Users on dialup or other slow internet connections may need to reduce this to 3. Users on faster connections should be able to select around 10 or 15 connections. This varies on the how much bandwidth your internet connection currently has. If you are using filesharing programs you may need to decrease the limit.

Each user has the option to broadcast Video On Demand. When they speak in the chatroom you can right click on their name and select Show Users Video.

When the connection starts the image you receive will be in the default small size. Double clicking it will enlarge it if their cam allows.

You will not be able to view a user's VOD if:

1. They have "Live Cam Off"
2. Their video is paused
3. They are in Private Chat
4. They have you on Ignore
5. They have selected the 'Return Cam Only' option selected and they are not watching you.
   

To mute the current speaker, so that you cannot hear their audio click on the icon of the speaker, shown to the left of "Current Speaker"

If the speaker icon looks the same as above, you will be able to hear audio from whoever is the Current Speaker.

If the speaker icon has a red X by it (shown above). You will not hear the audio coming from the Current Speaker. It can sometimes take a few seconds for the audio to stop, after muting the Current Speaker.

These settings stay that way until you change them manually. So remember that the current speaker may change from time to time and you may want to to un-mute the new Current Speaker.

To turn your VOD on and off, click on the camera icon shown below:

If the camera icon looks the same as above, anyone in the chat lobby can view you unless you have them on your ignore list.

Also, the amount of people VODing you is limited by the number specified in Settings | Options | Calls & QMs for Maximum simultaneous users.

If the cameras has a red X by it (shown above). Users cannot VOD you. The exception to this rule is if you are viewing someone elses Video on Demand. If that person tries to view your VOD, they will be permitted to view you. The maximum simultaneous users amount is also ignored in this instance.

You can also choose to boot any particular user from viewing your VOD by right clicking on the . This will display the users names that are viewing your VOD.

Right click on the user you'd like to remove and select "Hang Up Video Only Call"

If you don't want to be part of the Chat Lobby, you can turn it off so that the Chat Lobby disappears (you also can't do Video on Demand (send or receive).

To turn the Chat Lobby on / off click on the button that has an arrow pointing at it:

When the Chat Lobby is turned off, you will only see the Mini Profile (if active), the directory listing and your Pal List.