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Let Automator answer your telephone
It isn't every day that someone opens my eyes to an entirely new class of applications for the Mac, but today is one of those days. The VoIP weblog reports that Ovolab, makers of Phlink an application that marries your Mac and your telephone in many exciting ways, have released Automator actions. So what you say? Pish posh, I say! These actions let you do some really cool stuff, such as, and I quote, 'notifying you by phone when a batch of Photoshop conversions is done, or selectively forwarding voicemails.'
All of this and an iTunes like interface:
All of this and an iTunes like interface:
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Andrew Kaufmann said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
That's some cool, innovative stuff -- so far, the whole VoIP hasn't done much to get my knickers in a bunch, but applications like this make me raise an eyebrow and think that maybe there's something to this after all.
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Small Paul said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
I've tried Skype, but for some reason the fact that this looks like iTunes makes me want it.
I guess cos I'm already very familiar with iTunes, so this feels like I'll know how to use it. Whilst the Skype guys have done a lot to make their app nice to use, you can't beat an already-familiar UI.
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Michael Ginsberg said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
I have been using PhoneValet by Parliant for the last 1 1/2 years and it does a lot of this and so much more. Here is what my PhoneValet has been doing for the last year. Phone rings, iTunes running on my other computer (not hooked up to PhoneValet) pauses. Safari does a Google of the phone number, another Safari window shows me the city and state of the incoming call. Another Safari window shows me if they have ordered anything from us. Caller ID pops up on the screen. An instant message is sent to my SideKick. Now it is time for the 2nd ring. After I hang up, iTunes starts back up. http://www.parliant.com/
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