I just came across a site called PayPrank, which claims to be a site that allows you to pay people money, but in the most annoying fashion possible. It “lets you, the payer, have as much fun paying a debt as the receiver has getting it”.
Does anyone know if this thing is real? It’s a cute idea (nothing like paying off a $100 bet with a buddy with checks made out in random amounts), but it could it just as easily be a very well-executed prank itself.
On Friday, a co-worker noted that our in-house phone system has a “click-to-call” capability to allow you to trigger the system to call a specific phone number on your behalf and then connect you via your desk phone, all by simply issuing a HTTP request to the right URL. He thought this was pretty cool, but wanted something that would auto-link phone numbers in web pages (such as our intranet-based phone book) to the phone system to allow him to simply call numbers by clicking on them in his web browser.
A couple of hours, some Firefox-fu, and I’m proud to reveal Click2Call. It’s a simple Firefox extension that looks for phone numbers in web pages, and links them to your phone system’s “click-to-call” functionality using a URL pattern you configure. Enjoy!