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	<description>Ward Mundy's VoIP Technobabblelog</description>
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		<title>Introducing ISN: Free SIP Dialing From Any Asterisk Phone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we'll walk you through setting up ISN on your Asterisk server for free SIP calling from the convenience of your nearest Asterisk telephone. In less than 10 minutes, you can test it out by dialing **1234*1061 to sample a dozen Nerd Vittles text-to-speech applications.]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=621</link>
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		<title>Some Summertime Distractions for Asterisk Lovers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Nerd Vittles serves up a smorgasbord of summertime distractions including FreeNum, Roku, SMS with Asterisk, Bing, Napster, Wordle, Google Latitude, Hurricane Tracking, favorite blogs, and, of course, Twitter. ]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=619</link>
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		<title>Asterisk TTS: Introducing Today in History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We're pleased to introduce a new text-to-speech application for Asterisk. Today in History retrieves today's historical events and birthdays and plays them back using Flite of Cepstral from any Asterisk phone. Just pick up any phone and dial T-O-D-A-Y.]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=618</link>
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		<title>VoIP Over VPN: Securely Interconnecting Asterisk Servers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today's tutorial walks you through interconnecting Asterisk servers for secure communications using Hamachi virtual private networks and the Proxmox Virtual Environment. The setup process takes less than 15 minutes per server.]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=615</link>
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		<title>Asterisk on Steroids: The Orgasmatron Installer, Part IV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Install 20 Asterisk apps and build a turnkey Asterisk system in under 5 minutes with the new Orgasmatron Installer for PBX in a Flash. Fax, ODBC, VPN, ENUM, CallerID Superfecta, weather, sports, and news TTS apps, and more...]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=614</link>
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		<title>Whole House iPod + $5/mo. Gets You Every Song on the Planet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Napster just announced an incredible $5 a month bundle that you won't want to pass up. Couple it with the Sonos music system and you've got a near perfect sound system that'll meet your every need. ]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=612</link>
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		<title>Asterisk CallerID Perfected: CallerID Superfecta 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nerd Vittles today introduces the ultimate CallerID management system for FreePBX-based Asterisk systems. CallerID Superfecta 2.0 is a new FreePBX module that provides CallerID name lookups from Google, AnyWho, WhitePages, YellowPages, Addresses, WhoCalled, as well as AsteriDex, the Asterisk Phonebook, and SugarCRM. The entire setup and configuration process takes less than 5 minutes!]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=609</link>
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		<title>Asterisk on Steroids: The Orgasmatron Installer, Part III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, today you can turn a garden-variety Asterisk PBX into a turnkey VoIP PBX with every bell and whistle on the planet... in less than 5 minutes: free text-to-speech apps for news, weather, tides, and messaging plus inbound and outbound faxing, regular and recurring reminders, wakeup calls, phone blasting, callerid lookups, 20-user conferences for under $10 a month, ODBC connectivity, and much, much more. ]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=607</link>
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		<title>Asterize Your Data: Taming ODBC with Asterisk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wanted to use your Asterisk phones to quickly retrieve data from a company database? Today's article will walk you through getting ODBC connectivity working on your Asterisk system. And it provides all of the building blocks you'll need to connect to almost any database in the world.]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=604</link>
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		<title>Googlified Messaging Returns: The Gizmo-Asterisk Marriage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We're back! Once again you can make free calls in the U.S. and create a free voicemail transcription service with any Asterisk PBX. Today's tutorial will show you how. And we've set up a demo phone number and click-to-dial utility to let you experiment with Googlified Messaging yourself and review Google's automated transcription results. ]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=605</link>
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		<title>Asterisk on Steroids: The Orgasmatron Installer, Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In our last column, we introduced you to the new Orgasmatron Installer for PBX in a Flash. After a one-week break to prepare for our visit to the Atlanta Asterisk Users Group 3d Annual InstallFest, we're back in the saddle today to flesh out the new baby. 
For those that are new to all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=602</link>
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		<title>Asterisk on Steroids: Introducing the Orgasmatron Installer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With today's free Orgasmatron Installer, you can turn a garden-variety Asterisk PBX into a turnkey VoIP PBX with every bell and whistle on the planet... in less than 5 minutes: free text-to-speech apps for news, weather, tides, and messaging plus inbound and outbound faxing, regular and recurring reminders, wakeup calls, phone blasting, callerid lookups, and much, much more. ]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=600</link>
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		<title>Google Voice: Is the SIP and Asterisk Honeymoon Over?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick recap of where things stand in the Google Voice arena as Google decides whether to emulate  Skype or AOL in its quest for a share of the VoIP telephony pie...]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=597</link>
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		<title>Googlified Messaging: Asterisk&#8217;s New Best Friend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today's tutorial walks you through harnessing the power of Google Voice: free calling within the U.S. and free voicemail transcription for deployment with any Asterisk PBX. We've also set up a demo phone number and click-to-dial utility to let you experiment with Googlified Messaging yourself and review Google's automated transcription results. ]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=593</link>
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		<title>A Baker&#8217;s Dozen Asterisk Nuggets from the Forums</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some Asterisk Gold that we mined by visiting the forums: a Skype Gateway for Asterisk, CallerID Lookups from 7 providers, faxing.everything with Asterisk, A2Billing tutorial for turnkey calling card systems, Asterisk Stickies, streaming Internet radio, and more... ]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=594</link>
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		<title>Introducing PBX in a Flash 1.4: The Lean, Mean Asterisk Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You're cordially invited to take the latest release of our Lean, Mean Asterisk Machine for a spin today with CentOS 5.2 (32-bit or 64-bit versions), Asterisk 1.4 or 1.6, FreePBX 2.5, Apache, MySQL, PHP, SendMail, Perl, Text-to-Speech, Faxing, Automated Backups, and more. Free downloads for Linux and VMware are now available.]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=591</link>
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		<title>Good Morning: Hotel-Style Wake Up Calls Return to Asterisk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hotel-style wakeup calls now can be integrated into your Asterisk PBX using FreePBX in under a minute using a new FreePBX module! Here's how...]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=589</link>
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		<title>Why Wait? Build Your Own Skype Gateway to Asterisk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do calls to and from a couple 100 million of your closest Skype friends around the world have in common with Asterisk? Well, now they're free calls to and from your nearest Asterisk extension! Today we'll show you how to build your own dedicated Skype gateway to Asterisk in under 15 minutes using freely available, open source tools.]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=587</link>
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		<title>Now It&#8217;s a No-Brainer: Free Skype Calling with Asterisk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do calls to a couple 100 million of your closest Skype friends around the world have in common with Asterisk? Well, now they're free calls from your nearest Asterisk extension! Today we'll show you how using either the Asterisk dialplan or a FreePBX custom extension. And there's new support for Skype calling aliases in area code 333.]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=585</link>
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		<title>Introducing Atomic Flash: 15-Minute Turnkey Asterisk Installs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introducing a bootable flash drive that builds turnkey Asterisk systems in under 15 minutes. And we're giving the first 100 away for free to every generous contributor to the PBX in a Flash project...]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=575</link>
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		<title>Avoiding the $100,000 Phone Bill: A Primer on Asterisk Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are Ten Quick Tips to Secure Your Asterisk System and Prevent Strangers from Turning Your VoIP PBX into a Free, International Payphone: You Pay, They Phone.]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=580</link>
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		<title>The Ultimate Asterisk Telephony Appliance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Nerd Vittles uncovers the best SOHO Asterisk machine on the planet for just $339... if you hurry.]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=579</link>
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		<title>Free At Last: The Emancipation of the Apple TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we'll walk you through the process of transforming any Apple TV into a feature-rich, open source media center platform with complete web, SSH, and SAMBA networking support. It's simple enough that both you or your favorite Fifth Grader can do it in under 15 minutes! Can Asterisk be far behind?]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=578</link>
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		<title>Remotely Managing Your Asterisk Server with WebDAV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we'll walk you through setting up your own personal Cloud Computing environment and transforming your Asterisk server into a full-fledged WebDAV host. The entire setup on a PBX in a Flash server takes less than 5 minutes...]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=576</link>
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		<title>What PBX in a Flash Brings to the Asterisk Table</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As 2008 comes to a close and PBX in a Flash celebrates its First Anniversary, today we hand over the editorial reins to some of our PBX in a Flash users to express in their own words why they chose PBX in a Flash as their Asterisk distribution of choice and what their return on investment has been...]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=573</link>
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		<title>Another Dell with Asterisk, Dude: Introducing the Orgasmatron III for Dell&#8217;s New PowerEdge T100</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want a turnkey Asterisk system with a fax machine and every other telephony and text-to-speech bell and whistle on the planet in 15 minutes flat? Well, today's your lucky day if you happen to own a new Dell PowerEdge T100! The Orgasmatron III provides a preconfigured state-of-the-art Asterisk VoIP server with 15 extensions, support for legacy cards, FreePBX, a fax server, a VPN server, automated full system ISO backups to USB flash drives, and almost every text-to-speech utility for Asterisk on the planet...]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=514</link>
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		<title>Introducing VPN in a Flash: The $499 Mobile Telephony Appliance with Asterisk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you've been searching for the perfect portable Asterisk appliance that also can serve as a fully-functional remote PC and secure VPN host when you're away from home base, the wait is officially over. Introducing the VPN in a Flash Mobile Telephony Appliance...]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=251</link>
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		<title>The Lean, Mean Asterisk Machine: And Now It&#8217;s a Fax Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you've longed for the good old days of Asterisk@Home when faxing was simple to install and use as part of your PBX, the wait is over. Today's tutorial will walk you through installation of NVfax and will have you up and running in under a minute. Here's how...]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=237</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Dell With Asterisk, Dude: Introducing the Orgasmatron II for the $299 Dell SC440, Part III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you that missed the Dell SC440 at $199 last month and want to use the Nerd Vittles Orgasmatron II build for Asterisk, now's your chance. The machine is now on sale for $299 with a second hard disk until November 19. Enjoy!]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=236</link>
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		<title>Cloud Computing 101: Using Amazon&#8217;s S3 (Simple Storage Service) for Off-Site Asterisk Backups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The photo accompanying this week's article is everyone's worst nightmare and explains better than words why off-site backups are critical for  computer applications you rely upon... including Asterisk. Amazon S3 now makes cloud computing easy and incredibly affordable. Here's how... ]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=235</link>
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		<title>Introducing Noojee Click for Asterisk: The Free Click-to-Dial Solution for Firefox Using AJAM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you've been searching for a free click-to-dial solution for Asterisk using Firefox, you just can't beat Noojee Click. And today we'll show you how easy it is to set up using Asterisk 1.4's new AJAM technology.]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=234</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Dell With Asterisk, Dude: Introducing the Orgasmatron II for the Dirt-Cheap Dell SC440</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want a turnkey Asterisk system for a Dell SC440 with a fax machine  and every other telephony and text-to-speech bell and whistle on the planet in 15 minutes flat? Well, today's your lucky day...]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=233</link>
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		<title>Orgasmatron II for Asterisk: A Turnkey PBX Install in Under 15 Minutes, Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this second installment, we document all of the terrific components that comprise this one-of-a-kind, Asterisk build: automatic ISO backups, faxing, the PiaF Software Update Service, Visual Voicemail for Asterisk, a dozen text-to-speech applications, and much more...]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=232</link>
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		<title>The Asterisk Mother Lode: Introducing the Orgasmatron II for the $199 Everex gPC2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want a turnkey Asterisk system, a fax machine,  and every other telephony and text-to-speech bell and whistle on the planet in 15 minutes flat? Well, today's your lucky day...]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=231</link>
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		<title>The Dawn of Unified Messaging: Introducing FONmail for Asterisk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just pick up a phone connected to your Asterisk system, dictate a message, enter either a phone number or the first three letters of any contact in your AsteriDex database, and poof. Your FONmail is delivered in your own voice to the email account of your recipient. And it's all free! Here's how...]]></description>
		<link>http://nerdvittles.com/?p=229</link>
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