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eSIMs: The 2026 Answer to the Burner Phone

eSIMs: The 2026 Answer to the Burner Phone

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

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Remember when all the bad guys purchased burner phones to disguise all their transactions. Well, there’s good news. Now they can use their modern cellphone and add a "Burner eSIM" for those pesky criminal activities. But there’s a silver lining for those of us that don’t traffic in crime for a living. An eSIM lets you add an additional phone line to your new Android phone or iPhone to assure cellular coverage when your primary cell carrier falls short. We… Read More ›

Introducing the $45 Cellular Trifecta

Introducing the $45 Cellular Trifecta

Thursday, August 13, 2026

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As you might imagine, we spend an inordinate amount of time wrestling with current cellphone offerings to find the best and the least costly options for the Nerd Vittles Fan Club. Today we’ll tackle a new wrinkle that should be especially enticing for those that frequently travel to a variety of locations in the United States with dramatically different cellular connectivity metrics. For example, in many areas of the North Carolina mountains, cell towers of one or two of the… Read More ›

Introducing Incredible PBX 2026 for Debian 13

Introducing Incredible PBX 2026 for Debian 13

Saturday, May 23, 2026

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Today marks the one-week anniversary of Debian "trixie" 13.5 bringing critical security patches and some minor stability updates to this new operating system. It also addresses a major Linux kernel privilege escalation flaw (CVE-2026-46333) affecting default installs of Debian 13 as well as critical kernel patches. Debian 13 "trixie" will be supported for 5 years with three years of full, standard support and two years of Long Term Support (LTS). With this new Debian 13.5 release, it seemed only fitting… Read More ›

DAP's Little Secrets: Not Your Daddy's Music Player

DAP’s Little Secrets: Not Your Daddy’s Music Player

Monday, January 12, 2026

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What a difference a couple decades make from the original iPod to today’s Digital Audio Players. What was once a personal MP3 player is now a full-fledged Android device with functionality that was never once envisioned. Imagine a device for $50 that can not only play your tunes in virtually any format but can also stream music, audio, and video from all of the popular streaming services including Spotify, Audible, Deezer, Apple Music, Amazon Music, TikTok, and YouTube. Did we… Read More ›

Traveling Gypsies: Road Warrior Tips for Taming the Internet

Traveling Gypsies: Road Warrior Tips for Taming the Internet

Monday, August 18, 2025

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Truth be told, our family is pretty much always on the go. I-95 and I-26 are our constant companions. So it’s no secret that internet connectivity is important to us. While traveling, my wife does volunteer work with a non-profit organization that requires her to work in the car while I chauffeur. And, when we arrive at our favorite destinations in three different states, we need reliable internet service for both my business and for hers. If you pretty much… Read More ›

Icing on the Cake: Meet FS PBX -- It's FusionPBX on Steroids

Icing on the Cake: Meet FS PBX — It’s FusionPBX on Steroids

Monday, July 28, 2025

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In our previous article, we sang the praises of FusionPBX as the terrific GUI that was always missing from FreeSWITCH. Little did we know that a better mousetrap was hiding just behind the curtain. And today we introduce the third layer to our 3-Layer Cake, FS PBX. Some might call it a refinement of FusionPBX. We think it’s more of an enhanced feature set of the already rich offerings in FusionPBX. Technically, it’s a fork. More accurately, it’s a fork,… Read More ›

A New Adventure: Introducing FusionPBX... again

A New Adventure: Introducing FusionPBX… again

Sunday, June 22, 2025

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It’s been almost seven years since we first looked at FusionPBX and FreeSwitch. So we’ve spent the last couple months taking a fresh look at the platform and WOW! What a difference seven years make. We will hasten to add that FusionPBX is not a platform for folks that are new to the VoIP world or networking. For those users, the various flavors of Incredible PBX including the latest Incredible PBX 2025 and Incredible PBX 2027 for Debian 11 or… Read More ›

Introducing Incredible PBX 2025 with Asterisk 22 and FreePBX 17

Introducing Incredible PBX 2025 with Asterisk 22 and FreePBX 17

Friday, January 17, 2025

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We’re two weeks late, but here’s a belated Happy New Year 2025 with an all-new Incredible PBX release. And we’re two days early celebrating the 20th birthday of Nerd Vittles. The good news is the hits keep coming thanks again to the yeoman’s work of Joe McConnaughey, aka @kenn10. The new Incredible PBX 2025 offering incorporates the latest releases of Asterisk® and FreePBX®. Better yet, it offers a choice of Linux platforms including Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and… Read More ›

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