July 20, 2006
Jajah Phone Buddy Desktop Dialing Software
Jajah Phone Buddy is a little software application that touts itself as being able to add "automatic telephone dialing to almost any [Windows] application" via Jajah's VoIP software.
Jajah, a recent competitor to Skype, already has a plugin for Microsoft Outlook, and there's a Mac OS X Address Book Plugin as well. Phone Buddy gives you similar abilities in virtually all Windows programs. By clicking your mouse on a phone number in your Windows app, you can then press a Hot Key that scans the phone number and triggers Jajah. Voila, you can make your VoIP call.
You'll need a Jajah account (free), and Phone Buddy will tell you the cost of the call per minute, and the currency (based on what you selected when setting up your Jajah account). However, Jajah does give you a few dollars free (it was US$3.00 for me). Jajah is free between users.
I randomly tested Jajah Phone Buddy from a number of applications running in Windows XP, including Skype's "contact edit" window, and everything seemed to work fine. The assumption is that the number you've clicked on is a valid phone number; there is no parsing done to validate numbers.
Additional sources: [Jajah Phone Buddy]
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