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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
I find myself always needing to text my team through the day while I sit at my computer. I pull my iPhone off its dock and type out the message. Every time I do it, I wished I could just send the message from my Mac Pro. Well, now I can…kind of.
For me specifically, I can’t since Apple found it necessary not to allow me to easily pair my MacBook Pro and my iPhone; however, others using a Bluetooth enabled phone most likely can. With the Quick-dial and Quick-send plug-in, you open Address Book and click on the number you want to send a text message to (usually the mobile number.) Up opens a window for you to text into and off it transfers to your phone which then sends the message as if it came from the phone. Nice, huh? Ya, real nice.
If you’d rather just call your contact from the Address Book, then select “Dial Number with…” and it’ll dial it up on your non-iPhone phone. This is a really nice trick if you don’t feel like going through your large address book on the phone itself when you can more quickly type the contacts name in the search box of Address Book that comes with OS X.
So for $10, you can add this cool plug-in and be the envy of all iPhone users. After a hiatus from Leopard, it once again works with the latest OS X (10.5.2 and higher). Enjoy, text, dial.