Phone Amego User's Guide

Dialing

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Phone Amego provides an Application Service that you can configure to dial a selected phone

number and a Hot Key to open the Call window (defined under the More tab).

Snow Leopard (10.6 or later)

Navigate to "System Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Services -> Text" and enable the

Dial with Phone Amego service, or press Service Preferences (under the Main tab) to have

Phone Amego attempt to do this for you. Once enabled, the service will appear as a contextual

menu item when you right click on most selected text.  You may wish to edit the keyboard

shortcut.  I use Control-Shift-D.

If you wish to dial a number that isn't on your screen, Press Control-Shift-C or select Call from

the Phone Amego menu to open the Call window. To configure a Hot Key, navigate to "Phone

Amgeo -> More -> Open Call Window Hot Key" to set a key combination to open the Call

window. I use Control-Shift-C.

Address Book

Within Address Book, there are two mechanisms to dial a phone number associated with a

contact:

(1) Click and hold on the label next to a phone number.

This uses the Address Book Plug-in (if enabled).

(2) Right click on the number itself.

This shows any Application Services you have enabled.

When dialing a phone number from your Address Book or on screen, you can press Option to

bring up the Call window so you can choose which telephone device to dial.

Mail and Safari

Within Mail and Safari, there are data detectors that highlight phone numbers when you mouse

over them.

If you select the phone number text, the Dial with Phone Amego application service will appear

in the drop down menu for the phone number. [I hope Apple will update this to have services

appear by default without selecting any text.]

Excel, Firefox

Some applications like Excel or Firefox do not support Application Services. In this case, you may

need to copy a phone number to the clipboard, open the Call window (using the keyboard

shortcut if desired), and then press Return to begin dialing.

If you have Keyboard Maestro (from Stairways Software), you can automate this as follows.

Select the cell or text containing the phone number you want to dial. Then press Control-Shift-D

to invoke dialing (where Control-Shift-C is the hot key to open the Call window). Sustainable

Softworks has negotiated a deal with Stairways Software, so that for a limited time you can

purchase Keyboard Maestro and receive 20% off using coupon code "KEYCLICK".

Dialing by URL

You can tell Phone Amego to dial by clicking on a corresponding <tel://number> URL or

<sip:user@host> URI (a user's SIP phone number).  See "Getting Phone Amego do Dial" under

Scripting.

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