Change-@-Phone
Version 1.0.1Release date: June 11, 2009
Version 1.0.2 submitted to Apple on July 4, 2009 - pending release to the App Store
Have you ever felt the need to make a series of changes, often repetitive, to telephone numbers you have stored in your device?s Address Book? Things like properly formatting telephone numbers, adding missing area codes, changing dialing/long distance/area codes, preparing your iPhone for a overseas trip, etc..
And how nice would it be to have a tool that could automate the whole process? Well, that is the idea behind Change-@-Phone: to automate the making of bulk changes to telephone numbers in the iPhone or the iPod Touch Address Book
There are several situations where making bulk changes are needed, such as:
- Formatting telephone numbers (adding missing access codes and area code, as well as visual format information);
- Moving from one place to another, with a change of area code or country code;
- Modifications resulting from local changes, such as area codes, numbering scheme, exchanges, etc..);
- Complete or correct telephone numbers that were either entered on the device or imported from other sources;
- Switching Long Distance Carrier access codes;
- Dialing rules changes (local, long distance or roaming), in particular where telephone number portability is a reality;
- Temporarily changing dialing rules while traveling (national or international), either to make use of alternate telephone service (different SIM card) or to adjust to different dialing rules (while roaming);
Change-@-Phone provides a simple and powerful system based on Rules that define
how numbers are selected and modified.
Also, several rules can be applied at once, using Rules Groups.
Rules and Rules Groups definitions can be exported/imported from/to the device, using the built-in web server. Comes with several sample, as well as extensive documentation: on-device help, quick reference guide and a complete user's guide. Documentation is available from the downloads area or directly from the device, using the build-in web server.
Change-@-Phone version 1.0.1 is available immediately at Apple's iTunes App Store.
Screenshots
App Features
- Sophisticated rule based engine for making changes to the Address Book phone numbers
- Allows multiple rule's definitions
- Support for sequential multi-rule actions (Rules Groups)
- Telephone number matching based on numbers of digits (fixed or range) as well as a pattern (using regular expressions)
- Changes to telephone number includes add/replacing the number prefix as well as reformating the number
- Supports running in "Simulated mode" to verify results before commiting them to the device's Address Book
- Rules/Rules Groups export/import, based on the on-device web server (user connects to iPhone/iPod touch using a standard wed browser)
- Action logging support (review/retrieve with on-device web server)
- On-device help facility
- On-device web server can be used to retrieve the User's Guide and Quick Reference that come with the App
Additonal Information
Please check our downloads area, where you can obtain a copy of the App User's Guide and Quick Reference.