Dial the phone using your iPod

Why don't you just dial the phone using the phone? ;)

Would be fun to set your phone list to shuffle.

The Newton was able to do this, and it was actually useful, since it was tied into the address book.

whoo! that's pretty cool... at least for me using any modern crap but only an old school phone which cannot send dial tones (only pulses)....

nice stuff.

Wow! Like this is real recent news! The phone company has been using inband signaling for ages. Even before DTMF there was MF and SF. Before intercity switches, human operators would whistle at the distant operator to get her attention. There used to be little battery-powered devices where you could store something like ten numbers and play them back next to your handset's mouthpiece. I also remember doing remote diagnostics using a TI Silent 700 printer/modem. You dialed the number and then stuck the handset into a pair of Mickey Mouse ear-like rubber cups. It was only a matter of time before the iPod was used for this sort of thing.

yeah...nothing new here. all you have to do is use audacity to generate the tones, the ipod is the only new link i see in this chain.

I read something about an ipod bluebox a loooong time ago

These are some more recent articles:
http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/phreak/phreaking_out_your_ipod.txt
http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2005/05/3065/