CERNIUK Great in concept, not so great operationally. Software suffers from a number of operational problems that end up making this tool difficult to use. The Smoke "Active Call" Window is the main issue... When a call is made a Growl-like smoke translucent mini-windows comes up showing the call. This window also displays when an incoming call occurs. There are multiple problems with this window including: 1 - when the window opens, it takes focus away from the front most application and your typing (lets say here in the browser) goes to that window. You are forced to click back on the original application to resume operations in that app (safari in this example) 2 - closing the window always disconnects the call, regardless of the option chosen when prompted. This results in accidental hangup on your party, especially when trying to avoid condition #1 above 3 - if left alone the window disappears but then shortly afterwords reappears and agains steals keyboard and mouse focus away from the application you are in. (aka #1 interruption after interruption) 4 - the action menu on the smoke window has nothing to do with the active call and cannot hangup, redial, add a call, or otherwise modify the active call. It is purely geared towards the address book entry for the individual displayed on the call. ...based upon the problems presented and for consistency sake, it would make more sense to simply adopt the Growl API for this function of Phone Amigo and alleviate all aforementioned problems. The application would also make more sense as a system preference much like the keyboard, mouse, etc. setups. This way we could avoid yet another menu and elect to use iPhone Amigo from the system preferences interface. Both aforementioned mods would take iPhone Amigo's clutter factor down considerably. Hassle factor of this application is high and the only workaround is to use it to place a call then immediately quit the app to avoid any negative impact to your call or your ability to use your Mac while on the phone. (Version 1.1.3) |