Geek Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p>You can start a FaceTime call from any web browser in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> or <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a> with a custom URL. You can use the following with a standard href anchor tag:</p> <ul> <li>facetime://appleid</li> <li>facetime://email@address</li> <li>facetime://phonenumber</li> </ul> <p>Once a user clicks on the properly formed FaceTime URL, FaceTime.app will launch in Mac OS X or iOS and a video call will be initiated. In both cases, you’re required to have a FaceTime compatible camera and the FaceTime app installed. If you don’t have it on the Mac, you can <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=uO47tEUahH8&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Ffacetime%252Fid414307850%253Fmt%253D12%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30" target="itunes_store">buy FaceTime for Mac for $1 from the Mac App Store</a> (App Store link).</p> <p>A link will work like this: <a href="facetime://osxdailycom@gmail.com">FaceTime: OSXDaily</a>. FYI, this URL opens a FaceTime call to our group email, feel free to try it out although I can’t guarantee anyone will answer. Maybe you’ll see this stuffed animal though:</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/facetime-from-url.jpg" alt="facetime-from-url" title="facetime-from-url" width="470" height="665" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14306" /></p> <p>You could take this tip a step further and combine it with <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/01/17/automatically-accept-facetime-calls-mac/">setting your Mac to automatically answer FaceTime calls</a> from specified emails and numbers. <span id="more-14301"></span> David saw this tip on TUAW’s tips sidebar and sent it in, I couldn’t track down the URL but thanks to both for the submission and tip!</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9owdPyqq4U76YbJMhRZKz2uVUQ0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9owdPyqq4U76YbJMhRZKz2uVUQ0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9owdPyqq4U76YbJMhRZKz2uVUQ0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9owdPyqq4U76YbJMhRZKz2uVUQ0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=xwkxXEl0uq4:OxXQEIDLmWw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=xwkxXEl0uq4:OxXQEIDLmWw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=xwkxXEl0uq4:OxXQEIDLmWw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=xwkxXEl0uq4:OxXQEIDLmWw:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=xwkxXEl0uq4:OxXQEIDLmWw:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=xwkxXEl0uq4:OxXQEIDLmWw:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=xwkxXEl0uq4:OxXQEIDLmWw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/xwkxXEl0uq4" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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