Telephony

Finally ... Installing Asterisk@Home on Your Windows PC for Free: Here's How

Finally … Installing Asterisk@Home on Your Windows PC for Free: Here’s How

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

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ATTN: Windows Users … If you’ve always wanted to try the Asterisk PBX but didn’t have a spare machine for Linux or the expertise to wade into the bowels of Asterisk, your ship has arrived. Asterisk@Home now can be run as a virtual Windows application. Add the VMware Player, the Asterisk@Home 2.5 VMware app, mix, and serve. Presto! Your new Asterisk@Home server is now running in Microsoft Windows. And it’s all still FREE!

50 Great Halftime Projects Using Your Free Asterisk@Home PBX

Saturday, February 4, 2006

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Included in this updated list are 50 projects using the free Asterisk PBX. It also includes a free version of Linux with all the bells and whistles preconfigured. Each project can be completed in under an hour and most in under 30 minutes.

Newbie's Guide to Asterisk@Home 2.5: Unabridged Soup-to-Nuts Installation Guide

Newbie’s Guide to Asterisk@Home 2.5: Unabridged Soup-to-Nuts Installation Guide

Friday, February 3, 2006

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Here’s the definitive step-by-step guide to quickly installing the latest, latest, latest version of Asterisk@Home: version 2.5. It includes the CentOS 4.2 version of Linux and Asterisk 1.2.4. In addition, you’ll get an Apache web server, SendMail and Comedian mail servers, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, SugarCRM, NVfaxdetect and much more. The whole project will take you about 90 minutes to complete, and it’s free of charge.

Newbie's Guide to Asterisk@Home 2.4: Unabridged Soup-to-Nuts Installation Guide

Newbie’s Guide to Asterisk@Home 2.4: Unabridged Soup-to-Nuts Installation Guide

Wednesday, February 1, 2006

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Here’s the definitive step-by-step guide to quickly installing the latest and greatest version of Asterisk@Home: version 2.4 which includes the CentOS 4.2 version of Linux and Asterisk 1.2.3. In addition, you’ll get an Apache web server, SendMail and Comedian mail servers, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, SugarCRM, NVfaxdetect and much more. The whole project will take you about 90 minutes to complete, and it’s free of charge.

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 …