I’ve been busy this weekend hacking together a little something I call ZoolTone.
What is it you ask?
It’s a Firefox extension (my first, but not last) that will allow you to “Click and Dial” phone numbers on a web page. It adds a pretty little icon after every phone number it finds. When you click the icon, it sends a message to Asterisk to make the call. Asterisk then rings your phone with the caller id of the number you clicked. When you answer, it connects you to the other party. It should be pretty sweet for offices that run Asterisk.
It’s called ZoolTone because it’s written with JavaScript and XUL which is pronounced “zool.” I kept all the logic in the backend to make it easy to add Thunderbird support later. It would be so sweet to be reading a business email and call that person simply by clicking on the phone number at the bottom of page.
With real work starting on Monday, this will get neglected for a bit. I do hope to have a working version out in a week or so. Any longer would kill me.
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