Archive for 2006

ISP-In-A-Box: The $500 Mac mini (Create Your Own Planet ... Really!)

ISP-In-A-Box: The $500 Mac mini (Create Your Own Planet … Really!)

Monday, January 30, 2006

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Today’s episode shows you HOW TO build your own Planet just like our new PlanetMac.org, PlanetGadget.org, and PlanetDaily.org (with apologies to Superman). Add one Tiger, one Python, a feed parser, a templating engine, and a domain. Mix and serve. And, presto! Your very own new Planet is born.

As Easy As 1-2-3: A Telephone Reminder System for Asterisk

As Easy As 1-2-3: A Telephone Reminder System for Asterisk

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

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Introducing a telephone-based reminder system for Asterisk that lets you schedule delivery of customized reminder messages to any phone number at any date and time in the future. And it’s FREE!

Deploying Voice Over Wi-Fi with Asterisk

Deploying Voice Over Wi-Fi with Asterisk

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

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Today we provide a step-by-step Voice Over WiFi setup using Asterisk@Home. And it’ll work with almost any PC with a single USB port and a compatible WiFi USB stick.

Introducing TeleYapper: Free Asterisk Message Broadcasting System, Part II

Introducing TeleYapper: Free Asterisk Message Broadcasting System, Part II

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

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It’s free software day at Nerd Vittles again, and today we’re pleased to introduce TeleYapper, Part II, an Asterisk-based telephone broadcasting service for neighborhoods, schools, little leagues, fundraisers, municipal governments, and anyone else that just wants to pester folks with annoying, but free, prerecorded phone calls. Today we hook up all the pieces and actually start placing calls using our MySQL database engine.

The Best of Santa: Introducing the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet.everything

The Best of Santa: Introducing the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet.everything

Friday, January 6, 2006

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Finally, the perfect companion for that morning commute or your daily fix from Starbucks … the Nokia 770 tablet.everything …

Introducing TeleYapper: Free Asterisk Message Broadcasting System

Introducing TeleYapper: Free Asterisk Message Broadcasting System

Wednesday, January 4, 2006

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[UPDATED version now on line!] It’s free software day at Nerd Vittles again, and today we’re pleased to introduce TeleYapper, an Asterisk-based telephone broadcasting service for neighborhoods, schools, little leagues, fundraisers, municipal governments, and anyone else that just wants to pester folks with annoying, but free, prerecorded phone calls.