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Start calls from your Mac Address Book

March 4, 2009 on 11:23 am | In Mac version, Voice | 6 Comments

If you’re a Mac user that lives and dies by your Address Book, you’ll love this tool. One of our developers wrote a plug-in for the Mac Address Book application that lets you start a call on Yahoo! Messenger right from your friend’s contact card. Once the script is installed, you can right click on any contact’s phone number and you’ll see an option for “Call with Yahoo! Messenger”.

Here’s how to install the script which will work in conjunction with Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta 4:

1) Download the zip file and unzip the contents (1 file entitled “Yahoo! Messenger.scpt”)

2) Double click the hard drive icon on your desktop, go to the Library folder, and find the folder entitled “Address Book Plug-ins” (~/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/)

3) Drag and drop the Yahoo! Messenger.scpt file you downloaded into the Address Book Plug-ins folder. (You may be asked to authenticate the installation)

4) After restarting the Address Book, you will be able to right-click on anyone’s phone number and call them through Yahoo! Messenger.



For more information on making low-costs calls from your Mac to your friend’s mobile or landline phones, please visit our website.

Sarah Bacon
Product Manager

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  1. Nice. It’s good to see some love is heading our way too.

    Comment by Lucretiu — March 5, 2009 #

  2. [...] That’s my Mac calling: If you’re a Mac head and like calling your friends via Yahoo! Messenger, listen up. One of our engineers has written a plugin that lets you automatically dial a friend from within your Mac Address Book. Just install the script, open a friend’s contact card, right-click on the phone number, select “Call with Yahoo! Messenger,” and start gabbing away. Make sure you have Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta 4. More here. [...]

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  3. Just wondering, how do you view your message archives (.ychat files) on the Mac version? There is an option to enable message archiving but I can’t seem to find how to view the archives.

    Comment by Ryan — March 8, 2009 #

  4. When do you expect to have true address book integration on the Mac?

    Comment by Agustin Carvallo — March 16, 2009 #

  5. I second Agustin’s question. I’d really just like YM to look up caller ID’s in my address book to tell me who’s calling. Is there a plugin for this? It seems the only problem is that I can’t add contacts who don’t have a Yahoo ID.

    Comment by Potatoswatter — March 25, 2009 #

  6. This worked great until I just updated to snow leopard. Now the “Call with yahoo messenger” doesn’t show up anymore. Any ideas on how to fix this.

    Thanks!

    Comment by kevin — September 3, 2009 #

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