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Phoner 1.77

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Use your modem as a phone Shareware ($6)

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Nicolas Lapomarda

Phoner allows you to use your data modem as a voice phone. It includes a built-in address book.

What's New

Version 1.77 adds the following:

Search bar to find numbers more easily in Apple's Address Book
A minor bug was fixed (a problem could occur at launch on certain Mac)

Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.2 or later.

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paulsvail reviewed on 13 Feb 2007

I have been seeking an app that could dial out and be used to monitor / record phone conversations. While the information online was a bit out of date, I found a copy -- and on my powerbook G4 12" 867 -- this works.

It's not perfect, but it works. Would love for the developer to continue with it. Comments such as scamware -- they have absolutely no place here. It may not work on your mac, but that doesn't make something with a 15day trial a scam. Shame on you.

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Anonymous reviewed on 05 Sep 2004

Lifeless app - doesn't do anything!

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Anonymous reviewed on 07 Aug 2004

Horrible interface problems in MacOS X 10.3.4, controls overlapping and such. Completely unusable.

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Anonymous reviewed on 30 Dec 2003

Hello. I'm the developer of Phoner.

As you may have noticed reading the product description, Phoner enables you to use your modem as a phone.
If you have a standard Apple built-in modem, it can dial numbers automatically on your phone line, direcly from your home or work database (i.e. FileMaker/FileMaker Pro). This is a useful feature in a working environment.
But, as far as I know, the ability to speak directly from your Mac is only possible if you own a voice-capable modem !

Phoner is only a gateway between the Mac and the modem, it is not a magic modem upgrader and was never meant or said to be so.

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Anonymous commented on 06 Apr 2004

Well, the description IS misleading. Anyone (myself included) who doesn't know that talking over a data-only modem is physically impossible will think that your program allows you to do it.

It wouldn't be called "fakeware" if it didn't specifically say DATA MODEM in the description. How you can leave that the way it is, and not think that you are misleading potential downloaders, is beyond me.

Guidom commented on 30 Dec 2003

I am surprised the author didn't reply to the acusation of fraude.
If it is true that the program is a fake, it should be denounced or at least removed from MacUpdate to which it creates prejudice, and from Paypal system.

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Anonymous reviewed on 19 Dec 2003

I agree with others here. Fake-ware. I could dial the other party and hear them fine but they could not hear me. Sucks.

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Anonymous reviewed on 05 Sep 2003

It dials out perfectly and I can hear the person on the other end saying hello hello hello but there are no way for me to say hello back to them.
I am hoping that after registering this product there will be a place for me to set up my modem so I can talk back.

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Anonymous reviewed on 06 Dec 2002

No documentation; cause kernel panic when run. To hell with this!

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Zac commented on 06 Dec 2002

DO NOT BUY THIS SOFTWARE. It is fake and crappy. The lamest piece of rip off junk I have ever come across. A SCAM!!!

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Anonymous reviewed on 06 Dec 2002

this is fakeware. AFAIK there is no technical possibilty to send audio through the modem onto the phone line. this app may dial a number, but everything else it's doing is asking for the registration fee:

@interface Dial:NSObject
{
id phone;
id dialBtn;
id wRegister;
id fName;
id fCode;
id serialSheet;
}

- (char)windowShouldClose:fp12;
- (void)initModem;
- (void)fillNumber:fp12;
- (void)hangup;
- (void)compose:fp12;
- (char)algo;
- (void)notyet:fp12;
- (void)purchase:fp12;
- (void)entercode:fp12;
- (void)abort:fp12;
- (void)validate:fp12;
- (void)awakeFromNib;

@end

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