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DESCRIPTION
Dialectic uses a Bluetooth mobile phone (including the iPhone), your Mac’s modem, or speakers to dial the phone. Dialectic can also make calls via Vonage, CallVantage, Skype, Ovolab Phlink, Parliant’s PhoneValet, Fritz!Box, an Asterisk PBX server, IP-based telephony devices including IP phones from Cisco and Snom, softphones from CounterPath Solutions, Inc., the Gizmo Project, ohphoneX, JackenIAX, as well as others.
You can enter a number manually or you can use the integrated search tools to find numbers in your Address Book, Microsoft Entourage, Now Contact, or Palm Desktop databases. With the included contextual menu, you can even select a number just about anywhere (such as on a webpage) and instantly dial it using Dialectic! Many more features.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.5:
- Added incoming call detection for the iPhone
- Added a Services workflow item to enable contextual menu dialing in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
- Added a Google Quick Search Box plug-in (see the Extras section of the Dialectic preferences to install)
- Added Call Timer preferences & separate Call Timer status window
- Added option to use grayscale menu bar icons
- Added optional identifier property to AppleScript, HTTP, & URI dial, incoming call, & add call log entry commands to help third-party apps keep track of calls they make through Dialectic
- Improved phone number formatting for Address Book numbers
- Improved detection of call types (e.g., Local, Domestic Long-Distance, etc.) in the Dialing Rules
- Improved accuracy of caller ID lookups in Address Book
- Improved reliability of dialing with Internet-based Dial Methods (e.g., Google Voice or Vonage, etc.)
- Improved speed & reliability of dialing & incoming call detection using an analog modem
- Improved support for dialing and monitoring Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones
- Improved support for dialing and monitoring analog modems
- Updated the Address Book Plug-In for Mac OS X 10.6 compatibility
- Fixed large type window opacity on Mac OS X 10.5 & 10.6
- Fixed an issue where the HTTP server would not restart after waking from sleep on Mac OS X 10.6
- Fixed the online help links on Mac OS 10.6
- Fixed an issue when using a smart group as the contact source of the AB Menu
- Updated & augmented the documentation
- Many minor fixes, enhancements, & optimizations
REQUIREMENTS
- Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later
- An External Telephone or a VoIP Account & an Internet Connection
- Any of the following Contact Management Applications:
- Address Book
- Marketcircle Daylite
- Microsoft Entourage
- Now Contact
- Palm Desktop
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| Dialectic User Reviews (8 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Dec 7 2009 |
Makes using Google Voice a snap. Does its job and stays out of your way, yet has a lot of useful features if you want to see them. It has saved me a lot of money, as I have to pay (1970's prices!!) for outgoing calls where I work. My last phone bill was US 28 cents. I had a crashing issue. Support was extraordinary. Jon, the developer, responded quickly and offered fixes just as fast. His support was well worth the shareware fee.
(Version 1.5) | |
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| Oct 19 2009 |
RYBU03051 Dialectic is a feature rich app with the ability to make calls using just about every method on the planet. I did have a delayed response from the developer with one issue but they provided a reasonable explanation and solved the problem. I would recommend Dialectic.
(Version 1.4.2) | |
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 | May 15 2009 |
DANA SUTTON Let me add something else. Both Dialectic and Phone Valet add relevant items to the often-neglected Services menu. Since it is very easy to assign keyboard commands for such items, it's a snap to set up a system where they dial a highlighted number, or one stored on the clipboard, by such a command (go System Preferences > Keyboards/Mouse > Keyboard shortcuts, hit +, in this case keep All Applicaitons, type in the exact name of menu item, assign a keyboard command combo not used in any applicaiton you run). Try it, it's sweet.
(Version 1.4.1) | |
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| Apr 6 2009 |
DANA SUTTON You use Address Book to store your phone numbers, right? So doesn't it make sense to use Address Book to dial them as well? And you use your Mac as a communications center in so many other ways that it would probably make sense to use it as a center for yoiur telephony as well, no? You have two ways to go, which aren't necessarily mutually exclusive: use Dialectic as a dialer, or use Phone Valet turn your Mac into a dialer/answering machine. Both access Address Book. Both add a Services item which can be assigned a keyboard equivalent, and both add a Contextual Menu item, so they are extremely handy. Dialectic is especially useful for road warriors' laptops, whereas Phone Valet is relevant to desktops (but if you are using it with multiple Macs on a LAN you will want Dialectic to enhance the power of the satellite program they give you to run on other networked machines). It's strange that Apple, which pioneered the Smart Telephone, is otherwise so indifferent to telephony and doesn't include any telephone-relevant capability in the OS package. These two programs make up for this omission.
(Version 1.4) | |
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| Feb 20 2009 |
BRENK Works absolutly perfect with my SNOM 360 Very fast Support by Developer! THANKS
(Version 1.3) | |
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| Jul 8 2008 |
DONEBYLEE I want to second the reports of excellent customer service. When I first tried this app it wouldn't work with my LG phone. Jon, the developer, was very responsive and helpful and got me up and working within an hour or so. I have since purchased a license and would recommend this app and developer to anyone.
(Version 1.1) | |
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| Jun 3 2008 |
BERND M. TRABER Tried it and after a few days licenced it. Works like a charm over here in Germany. Comes w/a really helpful and fast customer support. Greatly appreciate the time saving feature of Dialectic. 5 stars.
(Version 1.0.3) | |
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| Apr 13 2008 |
JFIELDS It's Jon's Phone Tool reborn with a cleaner interface and more settings than ever. I use this to dial numbers directly from a Filemaker Pro Database to a PhoneValet setup on a networked machine. Works great!
(Version 1.0) | |
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