A Popclip extension to dial a number using OS X Jabber Client
Popclip is a nice little OS X app that adds iOS style copy/paste popups on the Mac desktop ($4.99 in Mac App store regularly, but only $2.99 until Jan 31). The real beauty of Popclip is in a number of plug-in extensions that can then also be quickly applied to any selected text (some favorites of mine include open hyperlink, and create note in Evernote).
Extensions are also pretty easy to create and tied to a Mac OS X service, AppleScript, Shell Script, URL, or Keypress. We use Jabber integrated with the Cisco UC platform at work, so I thought it would be nice to be able to quickly dial a selected phone number using a Popclip extension.
To use the the Popclip extension, make sure the “Dial with Jabber” service is installed and active (the service is installed with the Address Book plug-in — from the Cisco Jabber menu choose Cisco Jabber > Preferences > General and click Install Mac Address Book Plug-in).
Jabber also needs to be configured to control an associated Cisco IP phone or as a softphone. The extension (unsigned for now - sorry) can be download from GitHub. Grab the “dialjabber.popclipext.zip” file, un-archive, and double-click on the dialjabber.popclipext icon to install the extension (Popclip has to be installed first).
Then dial-away!
Hope you find this useful.
— Klaus
os x
Reader Comments (1)
Nice post and great extension. Thanks for doing this.
In our environment we need to prefix a zero when dialling an external number, I would like to modify the extension to insert a zero before the selected number before passing it to Cisco Jabber for dialling. Can you advise how I might go about doing that? I'm hoping to avoid a solution that involves changing config on the server side.