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Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
Thu, 24 Jun 2004
OS X phone home.
LaunchBar has become one of the most indispensable applications on my Powerbook. In version 4, you can look up people's contact information via the Launchbar input window. Unfortunately, you can't do anything with the phone numbers that you look up, which is a shame. I would love to be able to connect the Launchbar lookup with a way to dial a telephone. This could be done with the OS X Adddress Book's support for dialing via a Bluetooth cellphone, or via BluePhoneMenu's dialing support. If you had PhoneValet installed that would be another possible mechanism. It would be great to have dialing (Bluetooth or PhoneValet) accessible via UNIX command line utilities or AppleScript.
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I haven't looked into it, but could your computer generate the corresponding dial tones from the address book? Then you could just hold the phone up to the speaker to dial.
Posted by Dwight Shih at Fri Jun 25 04:57:23 2004
Posted by Dwight Shih at Fri Jun 25 04:57:23 2004
It's not a question of generating the tones (although that feels like a 1980's kind of solution), its about the software infrastructure to provide dialing as service to other programs.
Posted by Ted Leung at Fri Jun 25 11:05:41 2004
Posted by Ted Leung at Fri Jun 25 11:05:41 2004
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