Comments on: Looking For Skype and Mac Integration Hints

By: Tim Lee

Tim Lee — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:16:17 +0000

Hey Brad, Chrome has a great google voice plugin that you can dial from. You do have to setup an online Skype number so your google voice account can forward to. Working on updating this post, but there's some good info in it: http://mostlikelee.squarespace.com/blog/2010/6/6/...

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:19:17 +0000

Brad, you didn't say if you also had Address Book syncing to Exchange. If so, then David's comments will work. If not, then either set up Address Book as a client for Exchange or have Entourage sync addresses with Address Book…but be careful if you do the latter so you don't obliterate one data store with the other unintentionally…

By: Garrett

Garrett — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:27:49 +0000

Brad, since you are using Mac Mail, have you found any add-ins where you can easily change the subject line of a message?

By: Peter Parkes (Skype)

Peter Parkes (Skype) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:45:50 +0000

You can also dial a contact direct from the address book by clicking on the label (e.g. ‘Home’) next to the number. Hope that helps!

By: Jeff S

Jeff S — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:13:49 +0000

Maybe checkout Zimbra Desktop (as an alternative to Outlook) as a way to bring Exchange/IMAP/POP/Gmail/Y! mail and Skype together? http://www.zimbra.com/forums/announcements/40766-...

By: @defrag_Ami

@defrag_Ami — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:41:41 +0000

Wow! I also figured out that you can set your preferences to fix the problem I was having with the "1". I will now be dragging and dropping thanks to Andrew.

By: David

David — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:06:48 +0000

go to preferences, general tab and select "show address book contacts"

By: @defrag_Ami

@defrag_Ami — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:02:20 +0000

Hi Brad,

I'm using the Skype iphone app quite a bit because my house in Boulder is in a dead zone. Pros: more mobility than sitting by computer. Cons: will dump you if you get an incoming iphone call, but the new app with multitasking should be out really soon. Hoping it will fix that (am also moving which is a sure fix).

As for syncing, when I set up Skype on my computer there was an option to import contacts from the Mac address book program. In my desktop Skype application, there is a contacts menu with an import option and then various address books to choose from with checkboxes next to them. Is that where you are when it is breaking down for you and none of your options there work?

It worked fine for me except that many of my saved phone numbers, once imported, didn't have a "1" in front of them for dialing. I needed to edit them to add the "1" and after that they worked. These contacts from my computer then all magically appeared on my Skype iphone app, so Skype seems to have that syncing working well.

By: Andrew Warner

Andrew Warner — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:55:07 +0000

Brad, I just drag and drop phone numbers on the Skype icon on my Mac's doc. It opens up Skype and dials the number.

By: Elia Freedman

Elia Freedman — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:34:43 +0000

Plug-ins for Safari were just announced at WWDC last month so don’t think they are really publicly available yet.