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Whether it’s a quick weather update or a five-day forecast, you now can grab reports for thousands of cities around the world with your very own Asterisk Worldwide Weather Station. From any touchtone phone, dial 612 and enter a code for your favorite places around the globe. All you need is a free TrixBox or Asterisk@Home server, the free Flite speech synthesis engine, and, of course, the latest version of our free Asterisk text-to-speech WorldWide Weather Forecaster application. Here’s how …

Today Nerd Vittles walks you through upgrading your Asterisk or TrixBox system to freePBX 2.2.0 and introduces a slew of new goodies designed exclusively for freePBX 2.2.0… plus some birthday surprises.

Once again we review our Top VoIP Providers for those running Asterisk systems. And, once again, there are lots of new surprises…

It’s another free software day at Nerd Vittles to start the new year. And today we introduce version 2 of our Windows screen pop utility for Asterisk with a new user interface based upon phone slips and a call log that lets you scroll through phone slips of your missed calls at the touch of a button. Enjoy!

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 …