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