Archive for December, 2006

It’s free software day at Nerd Vittles, and today we introduce a Windows screen pop utility for Asterisk so you never have to leave your cushy chair to find out who’s calling…

Whether it’s a quick weather update or a seven-day forecast, you now can grab reports for 42,740 U.S. locations with your very own Asterisk Weather Station. From any touchtone phone, dial 947 and enter a five-digit zip code for anywhere in the U.S. All you need is a free TrixBox or Asterisk@Home server, the free Flite speech synthesis engine, our free MySQL database of zip codes and cities in the United States, and, of course, the latest version of our free Asterisk text-to-speech Weather by ZIP Code application. Here’s how …