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Use landline through mac
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I was wondering if there is any way, i could hook up my landline to my imac and use the mac as a phone. just for standard dialing and caller id and stuff like that. any software recommendations for acheiving this ? or is it just not possible at all.
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Originally Posted by daneel 
I was wondering if there is any way, i could hook up my landline to my imac and use the mac as a phone. just for standard dialing and caller id and stuff like that. any software recommendations for acheiving this ? or is it just not possible at all.
I don't think you could do this without some additional hardware and software - something to convert between analog and digital.
A better option would be looking into voice over IP (VoIP). You can use Asterisk, Skype, iChat, etc. for this.
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There used to be some modem telephony software, but most of the world is way past modems. It probably doesn't make a lot of sense.
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well it just one of those "why not" kinda tech projects. i gave it a go, but it didn't work out. ah well.
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This used to be really easy ten years ago. Mate of mine used to do all his telephony through his beige G3.
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Join Date: Apr 2000
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Was that the GeoPort Telecom Adapter (aka GeoPort modem)? Those were neat little devices, though they did eat a lot of CPU to do its work.
Silica worked pretty well with my eMac's modem. It would display the phone number and match it to a name in its address book. However, I have to admit that most of my phones do this job far better (easy to read LCD).
If you really want full-featured, you'd have to turn to commercial software such as PhoneValet. You might also want to check out PureMac's Telephony page for a list of software for Macs.
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