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Hi all,
I'm planning to start calling possible customers to widen my customer base.
This will be a long process (I plan to call people during two weeks).
I do have a CRM installed on my work PC where I have all my contacts.
Phone numbers in my CRM appear as links.
I'd love to press the link and get my phone calling automatically.
I have a Samsung android phone.
Windows 10.
Is that even possible?
Doesn't sounds a super strange thing to me, but I can't find anything in the Internet...
Thank you!
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Here's what I would do:
- Ensure your PC and Samsung phone are on the same corporate network.
- Identify a shared folder (e.g.
\\joanPC\numbersToCall\) drive to which your PC has write access and your phone has read access.
- Write a hook in your CRM so that clicking a phone number link creates a text file with the phone number in this folder.
- Write an Android app that runs on your phone that periodically polls this folder for phone number files. If it finds any (and the phone is not currently in use), it reads the phone number from the file and dials the number, e.g:
Uri number = Uri.parse("tel:123456789");
Intent callIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_DIAL, number);
startActivity(callIntent); - Post an article on CodeProject explaining how you did this.
/ravi
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Well, I was not thinking on doing this amount of work to avoid pressing some buttons in the phone...
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This video[^] may offer a non-programming solution.
/ravi
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That android app would/could be tasker.
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. . . and another telemarketer is born . . .
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rather u synch ur contacts onto phone
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Since you have a Samsung phone, I recall something call SideSync on it buy Samsung. I don't remember if it can be used to make calls.
Another option could be to make use of Google Voice. In my experience, call quality has been pretty good.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Have you thought of doing something like setting up a RingCentral account? They have a phone app and PC app that allow you to call from either device and give you a nice company facing phone number to boot. No more broadcasting your private phone number and having clients call you at 2AM
cheers
Chris Maunder
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One of the coolest apps I have allows you to do that. Memento database[^]. I've set up a DB that has contacts, call logs, etc, that allows you to click a field to make the call. If you are doing the calling through a derived 'table' (or 'Library', as Memento calls them), you can use some Javascript[^] to duplicate the number so it is clickable there, as well.
You can import CSVs in Memento, although I haven't played with that ability.
If you want to go full hog you can get a monthly subscription to use their cloud solution. At that point you can work on it on your desktop or phone.
If you don't want the monthly fee, Google sheets solves the problem. Use an android emulator with Google Play ability, and run the database through there on your desktop. With that, though, you must sync the emulated version to Google Sheets, and then your phone to Google Sheets, to have it available there.
If you go this way, there is some learning involved, but you can use Memento for anything - including dream journals if you wish! It is way cool, to be redundant with my opening statement!
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Currently I use AVG Free, WinPatrol, CryptoPrevent & MalwareBytes Anti-Exploit; I was trying to add MalwareBytes Anti-Ransomware, but it said there is an app already installed that it is not compatible with (that CryptoPrevent had always been allowable in the past, although perhaps since I had installed a newer version, it is no longer allowable. I have learned to stay away from Avast as there always seems to be issues with it.
Anyway, this has gotten to think about what is the best set of anti-virus apps since it appears that the old method of just installing as much stuff as possible is no longer working, and that I need to figure out which is the best set that will work together.
modified 28-May-18 15:51pm.
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swampwiz wrote: it appears that the old method of just installing as much stuff as possible is no longer working
when was that ever a good idea? all the conflicts and hassles particularly doing a lot of development and it quarantines out your own work.
Minimal approach works best, assuming you would like to get some work done. windows defender is way sufficient, throw in occasional malwarebytes (the older one) off-line scans if you are worried. More is just time wasted.
just make sure to scan new items you download, and also worthwhile to disable as many auto-updaters as possible, good examples include the always running acrobat updater (how often does it significantly change?) and the utterly ridiculous check-every-10-minutes chrome updater.
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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I have been using Windows Defender (to 1%) and common sense while browsing (to 99%) for the last decade.
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The last decade, or more...
I follow the same rules. I have had a virus once. That was a boot sector virus on 5.25" floppy disks - in other words, at a time when Defender wasn't available. Even before Microsoft Security Essentials. So maybe that can serve as an excuse. 
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I use Windows Defender and the free Malware bytes version to do a full system scan once a week.
I have found the combination has served me very well for a few years now(Windows 7 to 10).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Rage, somewhere above my post, had the right reaction: "  "
It's never been a good idea to try to run more than one AV at once.
What kind of sites does one have to visit to worry so much that you figure you need more than one?
And frankly, if one does visit those types of sites, it's just best to do it from an isolated VM, assume it got owned, and then you just roll it back, rather than hoping everything got caught and cleaned up.
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I agree with Lopatir; my main-machine is dual-boot, and there's no AV on the Windows-side. Using ClamAV from the Ubuntu-side. Partly because it is a low-risc machine, mostly for games and websurfing.
If a virus (or other malware) is discovered, the partition can be wiped quickly.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Do clouds wear thunderwear?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thunderpants? That'll cause a storm, lots of wind...
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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No, no. Thunderwear is a brand of plastic recipients with their plastic tops that are good for storing food in the fridge and will last longer.
This weekend my wife is hosting one of those thunderwear parties!.
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and it's lucky they do with thier love of flashing
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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You can't be cirrus!
/ravi
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Watch out for the clap! 
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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You should track your Thought of the Days to avoid reposting 
When storm clouds get dressed, do they put on thunderwear first?
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I do - but that one slipped through ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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