Archive for August, 2010

TweedleD Back From the Dead Using Twitter OAuth

TweedleD Back From the Dead Using Twitter OAuth

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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Twitter ended supported for basic authentication this morning putting Tweet2Dial and TweedleD in the graveyard. Today we restore TweedleD to the living using Twitter’s new OAuth authentication scheme. When new calls arrive on your Asterisk server, TweedleD generates Twitter and SMS messages to alert you.

Lessons Learned From An Alaskan Cruise

Lessons Learned From An Alaskan Cruise

Monday, August 23, 2010

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If you’ve never been to Alaska, you really should add it to your Bucket List. No, I couldn’t see Russia… even with binoculars. But, after being out of the travel loop for the better part of this decade, it was an awakening experience on many levels: air travel, airport security, cruise travel, Internet connectivity, national vs. local politics, tourist economics, American industry, and the world from the vantage point of a couple of upcoming fourth graders. We began our voyage… Read More ›

The Incredible PBX: Meet the New Kid on the Block

The Incredible PBX: Meet the New Kid on the Block

Sunday, August 15, 2010

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The Incredible PBX: a turnkey PBX in a Flash-based system designed for Zero Internet Footprint with free inbound and outbound calling throughout the U.S./Canada and dozens of free Asterisk applications to handle every imaginable PBX task. Rock-solid security, randomly-generated extension passwords, free Skype calling, and more…

Taming the Cloud: Introducing Gobble for Google docs

Taming the Cloud: Introducing Gobble for Google docs

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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Meet Gobble for Google docs: a wget and curl-like utility to programmatically download publicly-accessible files from Google docs. And it’s yours to embellish as you see fit thanks to its GPL2 license.