Here’s a clever hack – Use Skype, Applescript, and iTunes to make phone calls and play audio files automatically. Link. Pictured here, the Skype payphone.
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Here’s a clever hack – Use Skype, Applescript, and iTunes to make phone calls and play audio files automatically. Link. Pictured here, the Skype payphone.
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I hate to be a dork about this, but it’s been done a while ago…
I actually hacked around with PlasticBugs’ DittyBot, which was around quite a while ago…
http://plasticbugs.com/index.php?p=267
we covered the plastic bugs project back in june http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/06/dittybot_itunes.html since we have more readers and new people now, it’s usually a good idea to post some of the new efforts so folks can check it out. that said, i’ll try and include the past link (i was on slow modem-like speeds in the car) so i could get to that.
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