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While I was at home working last week, I needed to make a phone call to a business that I have listed in my ever so handy Address Book on my laptop. While I was looking at the business’ contact information, I right (ok, Command-clicked) clicked on the phone number and saw an option to dial the number with Skype. Guess what?! That’s what I did!
I know I will get slammed for this, but I like Skype. I have used it a number of times while out and about to make calls that would otherwise cost me cell minutes. Outbound calls for me are free due to my annual subscription. I use my Bluetooth® headset with my laptop to make Skype calls so it is really no different than talking over a cellular network… Except that your calls are encrypted and bouncing along a peer-to-peer network via a proprietary protocol.
Anyway, I was impressed that I could right click contacts in my Address Book and make the call from right there. No dialing numbers, no opening Skype and then dialing the number, just a simple right-click (or Command-click if you will). If you use Skype on your Mac and also take advantage of Apple’s Address Book contact management application, give a contact a right-click (I know, I know, Command-click) and let the dialing begin!
Until next time…
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