Ovolab Phlink 3.1 review

Ovolab Phlink, combined with the Ovolab Telephone Adapter, can answer telephone calls and identify the caller using Caller ID and Apple's Address Book.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 15540K Developer: Ovolab Buy Now Price: $149.00 Updated: 09 Oct 2006

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Ovolab Phlink, combined with the Ovolab Telephone Adapter, can answer telephone calls and identify the caller using Caller ID and Apple's Address Book.

After answering a call, Ovolab Phlink records a message and stores it on your Mac for later retrieval.

Ovolab Phlink lets you label and write your own notes next to each call, as well as sort and search through them. Using smart call lists, you can choose which calls to display - all missed calls, calls received in the last week, and more!

But the real power of Ovolab Phlink is what it can do while the call is in progress.
It will silently listen to any keys the caller presses on the telephone keypad, and perform actions based on the digits that are typed.

Here are some key features of "Ovolab Phlink":
Play custom greetings to known callers, based on their caller ID
Automatically receive your voicemail by email
Store all voice messages on your Mac
Create multiple voice mailboxes
Announce callers through the Mac's speakers
Create fully automated tone-driven menus
Share a single line for fax and voice calls
Integrates with pagesender for receiving faxes on your Mac
Create scripts that look up information on the Internet and read it to the caller over the phone
Trigger actions based on who is calling
Log incoming calls based on caller ID information
Schedule activation and greetings based on the time of the day
Ovolab Phlink takes full advantage of Mac OS X technologies:
Speech synthesis to provide feedback to the caller
Address Book to identify known callers
AppleScript for automating actions
QuickTime to compress and store recordings
Rendezvous to automatically notify other Macs of incoming calls over the local network

Limitations:
30 day trial period
messages limited to 10 seconds.

What's New:
Version 3.1 enhances voicemail retrieval over the phone and adds options for speech synthesis.
Phlink 3 features call snooping, powerful multiple voice mailbox integration, 10-digit and 11-digit dialing as well as intelligent international dialing, and much more.

Requirements:
Ovolab Phlink requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later and the Ovolab Telephone Adapter (included in the package).
The Ovolab Telephone Adapter is a USB device and therefore requires a Macintosh with at least one free USB port.
Multiline use requires one telephone adapter per phone line.
Caller ID requires activation of the service with your telephone company.
Call forwarding requires hookflash-based support in your PBX or similar service from your telephone company.
Fax features require either Mac OS X 10.3 or later, or select third-party fax software under Mac OS X 10.2.