Sometimes I wonder about things and ask myself, why is this not easier? Sometimes when I am surfing the internet looking for a phone number. I find it, then I have to dial it on a phone or in Skype. Which is one extra step I don’t want to have to do. I just discovered that there is a callto:// URL where one can specify a phone number in HTML. I figured there had to be some easy way to tag phone numbers so that they can be a clickable link. Everyone should do this to allow for easier connection via web to phone. Yet getting everyone to adopt a new idea generally takes time.

So, considering every web master in the world is not going to jump up and edit all of those pages with phone numbers. It would seem possible that maybe a grease monkey script would be able to recognize phone numbers and turn them into callto: links. Well someone has all ready created this. Callto Linkify (for Skype)

Gotta love the internet. Thanks to Aaron Boodman (you have saved me soo much time!) for Grease Monkey and Boris Yim for this handy Skype-ification!

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