xAP Switchboard - fantastic 'must have' HA app :)

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I=92ve been meaning to post this for a while and the new beta version has
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purred me on=85

I=92ve been running James=92s xAP Switchboard for a while now and testing
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t out/asking for additions etc. It doesn=92t happen very often but this is
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one of those =91must have=92 HA applications that soon became a major part
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of my HA setup.

As Mark just posted, you can find out more here:

http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/article1562.html

To give you a quick idea of what it=92s all about, I=92ll describe how it
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orks in my house:

Someone rings my home or business phone and through the whole house
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s a voice announces =93Incoming home call from Simon Brown at work=94. At
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he same time, a popup xAP Desktop message appears on my desktop PC=92s
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ng the same information and the Outlook contact window for this contact
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ns. The notes field is populated with the time, date and duration of the
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ll and allows you to add any notes relevant to this call.

In the background, xAP SwitchBoard seamlessly synchronises full contact
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ormation between the xAP SB database and the outlook contact list
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full address information.

Later on, I decide that I want to view who has called so I open a browser
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indow and load the xAP SB web page. This shows me a list of incoming and
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tgoing calls complete with name, company, STD area and duration. Clicking
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n the world symbol displays a map pinpointing the caller=92s location (or
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f no address information held, shows a map of the area based on STD code).
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