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Skype up your Address Book

addressbook100pxmacOSXHints is running a tip with a couple of AppleScripts that add Contextul menus for Skype calls to your Address Book.

It includes options for dialing numbers with Skypeout and for using Skypenames.

AppleScript is, of course, excellent. It’s free, built-in and when it works gives your inner geek a nice warm glow. It is also a bit forbidding and has a time-consuming learning curve (despite what the books say).

There are other options. You can find a pre-compiled AppleScript for this in an earlier Hawk Wings post.

If you have more money than time, you might like to try two shareware solutions—BuddyPop and the Address Book menubar utility JABMenu .address book, skype, applescript, contextual menu, tips, productivity

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7 Responses to “Skype up your Address Book”

  1. XIII says:
    July 22nd, 2006 at 12:25 am

    Shouldn’t that be the other way around? ‘If you have more money than time’ ;)

  2. Tim says:
    July 22nd, 2006 at 12:43 am

    Absolutely, it should. Thanks for pointing that out.

  3. Mattias says:
    July 23rd, 2006 at 3:36 am

    Since i got addicted to Quicksilver, my Skype usage has increased a lot. How come? Well, by adding a custom number type to a contact (the username of my Skype mate) I am now able to make calls to both ordinary phones AND Skype accounts using nothing but Quicksilver.

    Check out details for my setup here:
    http://www.arrelid.com/skype-and-quicksilver

  4. Tim says:
    July 23rd, 2006 at 7:56 am

    I should have thought of including Quicksilver. Is there anything that app can’t do!

  5. Bernhard says:
    July 25th, 2006 at 10:19 pm

    Skype already adds a “Dial with Skype” contextual menu item to the Address Book. It calls numbers with full country prefix only and skype names.

  6. Bernhard says:
    July 26th, 2006 at 3:58 am

    News: The Skype BETA 1.5.0.47 (released today) allows you to enter a default prefix it will use for numbers without country prefix. So from my point of view there is no need for any applescripting to hook Skype to the Address Book.

  7. Tim says:
    July 26th, 2006 at 7:07 am

    Excellent. Thanks for the tip!

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