With PhoneFloater 1.1 installed, your AV or Power Macintosh with GeoPort Telecom Adapter can now be used as a powerful communications tool. The PhoneFloater 1.1 package you downloaded contains all you need to get started with Telephony on your GeoPort equipped Mac. Below you will find some useful information on using PhoneFloater to create a more productive, exciting computing environment to work with.
Table Of Contents
1. What's New?
2. What's In PhoneFloater 1.1?
3. Requirements for operation
4. Other software by MUSI Computer Products, Inc.
5. How to reach us
6. Copyright and distribution information
1. What's New?
We have made some significant changes to PhoneFloater since our initial release. Among these are :
• Voice messaging (support for a single voice messaging system)
• Phone Books for storing names and phone numbers internally
• Speech Recognition for everything (including PhoneBook entries!)
• Improved Call Log features and feedback
We have also made every attempt to correct any reported problems with PhoneFloater 1.0 in this release. If you find a problem, or are having any troubles at all, please let us know and we will try to correct it.
2. What's In PhoneFloater 1.1?
PhoneFloater 1.1 is a very robust application which allows you to use your Macintosh as a speakerphone and telephone dialer. With it, you can place telephone calls from a variety of different applications, and from a variety of different sources, including PowerTalk business cards. You can also keep track of all calls placed with your Macintosh through our innovative Call Log mechanism, and even redial numbers from that log. Below is a list of features available in PhoneFloater 1.1.
• Full-Duplex speakerphone
• Voice Messaging
• Drag and Drop telephone dialing
• Speech recognition for dialing numbers, executing commands
• Speed dial list for easy access to recently dialed numbers
• Internal PhoneBook database for frequently used numbers
• Call tracking capabilities for logging all calls, and dialing previously dialed numbers
• Ability to create and save phone files for future telephone calls
• Low memory footprint (requires only 768k for complete operation)
3. Requirements for operation
PhoneFloater has modest requirements for normal operation. For basic functionality, you must have the following hardware/software on your Macintosh :
• AV or Power Macintosh system with a GeoPort Telecom adapter
• PlainTalk™ or Jabra™ microphone
• 8 MB RAM (minimum 768k free for application)
• Apple Telecom 2.0 or later software
• System 7.5 or later Operating System software
• Macintosh Drag & Drop v1.1 (comes with System 7.5)
• Espy Sans and Espy Sans Bold fonts
For extended features, such as dialing from PowerTalk business cards or speech, you should have :
• 16 MB RAM (required for Speech Recognition and PowerTalk)
• Speech Recognition 1.5 or later software (previously called PlainTalk™)
• PowerTalk 1.1 installed and enabled
4. Other Software by MUSI Computer Products, Inc.
MUSI Computer Products, Inc. develops and distributes software for Macintosh users only. Below is a list of software that is already available or soon to be available.
BijouPlay 2.5
BijouPlay 2.5 is the latest version of the acclaimed QuickTime movie player for Macintosh. BijouPlay is the smallest, coolest, fully featured QuickTime player available. Support for new QuickTime 2.5 media types is included in BijouPlay, as well as full support for Musical Instruments editing and playback. System 7.5 features include Drag & Drop, Thread Manager, and AppleScript. BijouPlay is currently the only QuickTime player application that is fully scriptable and recordable, using our Multimedia Apple Event suite, developed in cooperation with other multimedia developers on the Internet.
Version 2.0.3 is available now, version 2.5 will be available late Spring 1996.
InterMail 1.0
This application is a free Internet mail solution for PowerTalk users on the Internet. It includes a PowerTalk mail enabled application with advanced features, and a PowerTalk PMSAM which allows you to send and receive mail through your Universal mailbox.
Available Spring 1996.
TeleNavigator 1.0
TeleNavigator is a suite of tools designed to help you communicate more efficiently using your Macintosh. Based around PowerTalk catalogs and GeoPort 2.0 software, it includes tools for electronic mail, data communications, full-duplex speakerphone, telephone answering, and video conferencing. All these tools are available under one consistent interface, with the ability to speak most commands rather than type or use the mouse, you have the most powerful communications suite available!
Available late Spring 1996
5. How to reach us
You can reach us via electronic mail at the following addresses :
Internet : musi@kagi.com
Or alternatively, you can send us mail at the following address :
PhoneFloater is shareware, it is not free. Shareware payments and registration are handled through the Kagi shareware system using the enclosed Register application. More information on registering PhoneFloater with Kagi is in the document Registration Info.
PhoneFloater 1.1 is freely distributable through online services, the internet, and bulletin boards. If you wish to redistribute PhoneFloater on a CD-ROM collection, you must contact MUSI Computer Products Inc. for permission to do so. You may redistribute PhoneFloater 1.1 through any online service provided there is no fee for download other than normal usage fees, and that the original binary is kept in tact.
