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Asterisk on Steroids: The Orgasmatron Installer, Part II

Asterisk on Steroids: The Orgasmatron Installer, Part II

Monday, April 20, 2009

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In our last column, we introduced you to the new Orgasmatron Installer for PBX in a Flash. After a one-week break to prepare for our visit to the Atlanta Asterisk® Users Group 3d Annual InstallFest, we’re back in the saddle today to flesh out the new baby. For those that are new to all of this, let’s briefly review what the Orgasmatron Installer has added to your Lean, Mean Asterisk Machine. Faxing and email now work out of the box.… Read More ›

Asterisk on Steroids: Introducing the Orgasmatron Installer

Asterisk on Steroids: Introducing the Orgasmatron Installer

Thursday, April 9, 2009

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With today’s free Orgasmatron Installer, you can turn a garden-variety Asterisk PBX into a turnkey VoIP PBX with every bell and whistle on the planet… in less than 5 minutes: free text-to-speech apps for news, weather, tides, and messaging plus inbound and outbound faxing, regular and recurring reminders, wakeup calls, phone blasting, callerid lookups, and much, much more.

Google Voice: Is the SIP and Asterisk Honeymoon Over?

Google Voice: Is the SIP and Asterisk Honeymoon Over?

Monday, March 30, 2009

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A quick recap of where things stand in the Google Voice arena as Google decides whether to emulate Skype or AOL in its quest for a share of the VoIP telephony pie…

Googlified Messaging: Asterisk's New Best Friend

Googlified Messaging: Asterisk’s New Best Friend

Monday, March 23, 2009

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Today’s tutorial walks you through harnessing the power of Google Voice: free calling within the U.S. and free voicemail transcription for deployment with any Asterisk PBX. We’ve also set up a demo phone number and click-to-dial utility to let you experiment with Googlified Messaging yourself and review Google’s automated transcription results.

A Baker's Dozen Asterisk Nuggets from the Forums

A Baker’s Dozen Asterisk Nuggets from the Forums

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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Some Asterisk Gold that we mined by visiting the forums: a Skype Gateway for Asterisk, CallerID Lookups from 7 providers, faxing.everything with Asterisk, A2Billing tutorial for turnkey calling card systems, Asterisk Stickies, streaming Internet radio, and more…

Introducing PBX in a Flash 1.4: The Lean, Mean Asterisk Machine

Introducing PBX in a Flash 1.4: The Lean, Mean Asterisk Machine

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

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You’re cordially invited to take the latest release of our Lean, Mean Asterisk Machine for a spin today with CentOS 5.2 (32-bit or 64-bit versions), Asterisk 1.4 or 1.6, FreePBX 2.5, Apache, MySQL, PHP, SendMail, Perl, Text-to-Speech, Faxing, Automated Backups, and more. Free downloads for Linux and VMware are now available.

Why Wait? Build Your Own Skype Gateway to Asterisk

Why Wait? Build Your Own Skype Gateway to Asterisk

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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What do calls to and from a couple 100 million of your closest Skype friends around the world have in common with Asterisk? Well, now they’re free calls to and from your nearest Asterisk extension! Today we’ll show you how to build your own dedicated Skype gateway to Asterisk in under 15 minutes using freely available, open source tools.

Now It's a No-Brainer: Free Skype Calling with Asterisk

Now It’s a No-Brainer: Free Skype Calling with Asterisk

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

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What do calls to a couple 100 million of your closest Skype friends around the world have in common with Asterisk? Well, now they’re free calls from your nearest Asterisk extension! Today we’ll show you how using either the Asterisk dialplan or a FreePBX custom extension. And there’s new support for Skype calling aliases in area code 333.