Archive for July, 2006

Get Your News By Telephone: Introducing NewsClips for Asterisk

Get Your News By Telephone: Introducing NewsClips for Asterisk

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

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It’s free software day again at Nerd Vittles, and today we have yet another trick for your TrixBox: an RSS news reader for your Asterisk telephones. Just dial an extension and listen to a one minute news headline summary in more than a dozen categories any time you like. And it’s free, of course. Here’s how to install it …

Newbie's Guide to TrixBox 1.1 and freePBX

Newbie’s Guide to TrixBox 1.1 and freePBX

Monday, July 10, 2006

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Here’s the definitive step-by-step guide to quickly installing the Asterisk@Home replacement, TrixBox 1.1. It includes the CentOS 4.3 version of Linux and Asterisk 1.2.9.1. In addition, you’ll get an Apache web server, SendMail and Asterisk voicemail servers, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, SugarCRM, NVfaxdetect, Samba for Microsoft file sharing/networking, and much more. The whole project will take you about 90 minutes to complete, and it’s free of charge. This edition of the Newbie’s Guide also adds tips and tricks for those updating from a previous version of Asterisk@Home or TrixBox 1.0.