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An improved Skype - Address Book script
Authored by: mark hunte on Dec 30, '05 04:24:58AM
Nice plug for your app. I'm sure it great. But this hint is for Dialling when in address book. The point of using it in AB is you can see all the details of that person. read through your notes, see who their spouse is, what the kids name is , their job info. and the call from AB without bringing up the dialling program first and doing the search again. With AB you can dial from BT, and Skype. Im sure landline is not that hard to set-up as a plugin also.

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An improved Skype - Address Book script
Authored by: jonn8n on Dec 30, '05 08:28:41AM

Yes, I understand, and JPT offers an Address Book Plug-In so you can be in AB, see all of your contacts, and click on the number to dial.

The benefit is that using my plug-in, if you click on a Skype URI, it is automatically sent to Skype, if it is a PSTN number, then JPT will evaluate it using its robust Dialing Rules and route it to the Dial Method you have configured for the type of call it is (i.e., local could go to landline, domestic long distance could go to your mobile, and international could go to Skype, etc.).

While JPT has great Skype support, it also supports dialing with Bluetooth mobiles, modems, Vonage, CallVantage, IP phones from Cisco, Snom, & others, Phlink, PhoneValet, Asterisk, and softphones from Xten, the Gizmo Project, ohphoneX, and more. It also supports many other contact managers beyond AB, all from within the application itself.

As to your remark that landlines wouldn't be hard to do, there are three ways to do it: use the speakers with DTMF tones you generate on the fly (not trivial), use the speakers with pre-recorded tones (easier, but not exactly easy), or write a serial port interface to dial a modem (not trivial). There are plug-ins out there (some are free) to do this but none offer the flexibility that JPT does.



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