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I use Google Voice as my main line now adays. However, having to leave Google Chrome open and logged into Gmail is getting in my way...

I was wondering if anyone has a way to get these calls to go to a VOIP app that is installed on the computer. Does such software exist?

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The telephone app in the app store is a great one to use, i'm using it in mountain lion and it works perfectly, was by far the easiest softphone I've ever set up. http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/telephone/id406825478?mt=12

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Very cool! I'm gonna have to try this one! Thanks! – daviesgeek Aug 2 '12 at 2:31
Nice one, set this up in the last 20 minutes and it Just Works with sipgate :) – Caesium Aug 2 '12 at 2:58
Yeah, it's a great app. I've used the likes of X-Lite from counterpath before, which is very popular and seemed to work fine on my old windows machine but was an absolute dog to setup on mac (typical for software developed originally for windows and then slapped together for mac) but telephone just works, no issues and easy to set up. – InfluenceJamie Aug 2 '12 at 3:29
Maybe Im stupid, but I could not for the life of me get that to work with my google voice. Am I missing something? – user1048138 Aug 2 '12 at 5:38
It says something about gizmo5 that is no longer available. – user1048138 Aug 2 '12 at 5:42
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If you use Google's browser, Chrome, then you can install the "Chat for Google" extension.

Beside installing the "extension" through the Google Chrome Web Store it requires no configuration because it automatically signs you in unless you're already signed into your Google Account.

It only runs while Chrome is running, which is disappointing, so if you close Chrome that service will quit as well. But if you use Chrome as your primary browser I suppose that doesn't matter.

Also, it displays a window of contacts from your Google account, acting as a chat service. You can close the contacts list, but I'm not sure if you can silent the incoming chats (which is desirable if you use Messages for your chat client).

I happily receive and dial calls from the application though!

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