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PhoneWord
PhoneWord is a piece of software that is kinda cool, but I have no idea why anyone would need it, let alone pay for it, but what do I know? What is PhoneWord, you ask? Well, it is a small program that will represent any phone number you give it in digits and words make up from the digits in the number. The website gives the example of 355-DUNK.Besides being a standalone application, PhoneWord also includes an Address Book plugin that lets you get a PhoneWord for any phone number in your contacts with a click of the mouse.
PhoneWord will set you back $9.99 and requires OS X 10.3 or higher.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
lee said 3:50PM on 12-12-2005
http://www.phonespell.com does the same thing.
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ijw said 8:34AM on 12-13-2005
Verizon offers this for free on their site: http://www22.verizon.com/Vanity/
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Michael Cicconi said 1:48PM on 12-12-2005
Or you could just go to PhoneSpell.org and get them to spell out your phone numbers.
Nothing automatic, clearly ... but for the price, you can't go wrong.
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Rod Schmidt said 2:09PM on 12-12-2005
Everybody has a lot of phone numbers in their address book. If some of those have good phone words they will be easier to remember and you won't have to look them up. Besides, it's fun. :) There's an idea. Use it for entertainment at a party.
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cornershots said 2:38PM on 12-12-2005
phonetic.com
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Mark H said 2:51PM on 12-12-2005
There are several web sites that will do this for you for free. You wonder how this could possibly be useful? Well, I once used one of those sites to find phone words in order to impress a girl after she gave me her number. Fortunately, she found the results amusing and didn't laugh me off as a total geek. It contributed to the start of a great relationship.
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