I only wish someone could make an improved version with preferences for handling calling cards, PBX, other dialing features etc. Any programmer out there willing to duplicate the dialing properties control panel from Windows?
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I used to be a Windows user and I "switched." However, I miss some features of the Microsoft world. For instance, the Mac doesn't handle phone dialing with a nice preference pane like Windows does. I'm still looking for a complete solution, but recently, I found the DialWithModem OSAX script [84KB download], explained on this page (near the middle of the page). This program is both a standalone app, and an AppleScript that works from within the Apple Address Book. Not bad at all.
I only wish someone could make an improved version with preferences for handling calling cards, PBX, other dialing features etc. Any programmer out there willing to duplicate the dialing properties control panel from Windows?
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Dial the phone from the Address Book
Dial the phone from the Address Book
I don't object to shareware, but I still think it's sad to have to pay for something that should be part of the OS.
Dial the phone from the Address Book
if you have a bluetooth phone address book can dial it for you.
Disagree
Every tool is missing something or, as is often the case with Windows, too much of the wrong thing. However, no company can make everything for everyone. That is why extensibility is so important. When people like Jon make a product like the one he made, then he fills a gap and a need and should be paid for it. Perhaps he will even follow the path the makers of Watson did and make something better than Apple normally would.
Dial the phone from the Address Book
I did as well:
MacDialer
Dial the phone from the Address Book
You will also find that the dialing string is limited to 30 characters in length. You can recompile the OSAX to allow longer lengths but will have to get the English lproj file from the author's earlier dialing program at his web site to get it to compile.
Dial the phone from the Address Book
Ahh, if only one could dial directly from Launchbar...
Dial the phone from the Address Book
What's a launchbar?
Dial the phone from the Address Book
http://www.obdev.com
Dial the phone from the Address Book
Yeah, I modified the script so it would autodial on clicking a particularly named phone field from inside Address Book, but LaunchBar always executes the first option available, the built-in 'Big Type' option.
Dial the phone from the Address Book
Here is the best dialer for me: ABDialer
http://www.macronsoft.com/pages/en/abdialer.html
Dial the phone from the Address Book
I have been cursing the lack of Filemaker Mac development in this area. Can anyone tell me whether these scripts could be used in a script within Filemaker to dial a number contained in a field
Dial the phone from the Address Book
I just did a test button to dial a number and it worked fine. |
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