skype 4 and speed-dial

I have been using the USB-Skype adapter to allow me using my normal house dect phone for skype call for a while. It works great with Skype 3.8. However, skype decided to remove the speed dial from version 4 which is needed for my adapter to work. Hence, until today, I am forced to stay with version 3.

Today, I found a solution for my problem, and it works great. I found this little utility called SkypeSpeedDial which lets you to reveal the hidden speed dial feature in skype 4. You can use it to set speed dial numbers for contacts. To remind yourself the number, I use the rename function to add the speed dial numbers next to the contact names, e.g. John Smith (01)

Getting Skype

Skype can be setup and update periodically by including the

deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free

in the sources.list