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Speed Dial WebClips, right on the home screen.

Not working

This is not working...It only wants to dial the last 4 digits of the phone number. It is not dialing the full 10 digits. What am I missing or will it just work for a local 4 digit number???

Great Idea if it can work!
 
Oops, my mistake. Remove the dashes. I'll edit the original.
 
m477h3w said:
Any idea if this can be done in the UK?? :confused:
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I can't see why not, the script is pretty basic. Just put the full phone number in the space where the # are now. It doesn't care how many numbers, or digits.

Heck, 911.tel.QLNK.net might be convenient.
 
I can't get it to work. I created the clip, I click on it and it takes me to a page that says page can't be found.

I did get it to work by following the instructions on the qlnk website but I don't have ac custom image this way.
 
I got the same error message when I put the number URL over the "http" text. The URL reference on the webclip.us site needs to read as follows:

"http://##########.tel.QLNK.net"

hexonxonx said:
I can't get it to work. I created the clip, I click on it and it takes me to a page that says page can't be found.

I did get it to work by following the instructions on the qlnk website but I don't have ac custom image this way.
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This is a great hack, thanks!

rather than doing the QLNK.net URL, I followed the instructions from the first link in the thread and set up the script on my own Linux server. took 10 minutes.. Works great! :)
 
:D This is a really nice idea! I have a few questions though that hopefully someone can answer.

I have a website that I publish using iWeb, to my own domain www.(mysite).co.uk. My knowledge of web publishing is basic to say the least, so iWeb makes it nice and easy for me, and I upload to my site using an FTP program (Captain FTP I think). Is it possible to make a page in iWeb allowing me to create these speed dial icons and access them from my domain??

Also, how would I be able to add pics of the contacts to the home screen icons?

I have seen stuff about this on the net but it is way too confusing for me! :rolleyes:

Thanks in advance :D
 
I gave it a quick try.. doesn't look like iWeb/dotMac supports the necessary PHP functionality.. or at least I didn't have any luck with it...
 
Can't get phone number's picture

I can get the green phone icon and it works, but it's not getting the picture I have attached to that phone number. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
Leslie91 said:
I can get the green phone icon and it works, but it's not getting the picture I have attached to that phone number. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Its probably not loading your selected picture because its toooooo large.

It must be under 100KB not MB.

Hope this helps,
Good Luck
 
I noticed this also works by entering the standard telephone link code in place of the url (example: tel:1234567)
 
s8film40 said:
I noticed this also works by entering the standard telephone link code in place of the url (example: tel:1234567)
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Yes, you can use tel://phonenumber to dial using the browser, but it does not allow you to set it as a speed dial webclip, which is what makes this hack so cool. If you put in only the tel:// url and press Cancel, the browser reverts to the previous url. If you press call, the call is placed and you again lose the opportunity to make it a webclip.
 
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