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title: How A Little Hack Can Be Lifechanging
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# [How A Little Hack Can Be Lifechanging](https://www.onsip.com/voip-news/onsip-news/how-a-little-hack-can-be-lifechanging)

 Written by [OnSIP](https://www.onsip.com/voip-news/onsip-news/author/onsip) | April 24, 2010 at 4:10 PM

*First posted on [AVC.](http://avc.com/2010/04/how-a-little-hack-can-be-lifechanging/)*

One of the things I love about mobile browsers is they recognize phone numbers and activate them. You search for a store on your mobile phone, you find the phone number, you click on it, and you place the call.

I've always wanted to work like that at home, but I really don't like calling on my laptop. I love the ability to roam around my home or office with my mobile phone or cordless phone and as much as I love my laptop, it makes a lousy phone.

On Thursday I posted about [voice in the cloud and SIP phones](http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/sip-phones-and-voice-in-the-cloud.html). And [Ken Berger](http://twitter.com/kenberger) left[this comment](http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/sip-phones-and-voice-in-the-cloud.html#comment-46020667) letting us know about [a Firefox extension for OnSip](http://www.jnctn.com/webservices/firefox/onsip/).

I installed the Firefox extension on my laptop yesterday morning and now every phone number I come across in Firefox is activated just like in my mobile browser. When I click on the number, my wireless SIP phone rings, I pick up the call, and I am connected. I can walk around my home and do the call just like I was on my cell phone.

This is a little hack. It wasn't a huge amount of effort for OnSip to build this extension and the extension has only been downloaded 902 times as of this morning [at the Firefox add on service](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7961). So in the grand scheme of things, this isn't a big game changing web service.

But it is a lifechanger for me. It simplifies making calls and makes the wired experience mimic the mobile one.

All of this is possible when your phone becomes a device on your network and the Internet just like your computer. As I said yesterday, this convergence is a big deal.

As Ken said in [another comment](http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/sip-phones-and-voice-in-the-cloud.html#comment-46011472), "Fones are finally fun."

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