Back sometime we wrote a guide on how to dynamically read and display searchable directory information straight out of a Yealink phone here. Currently, we have a customer that migrated from Cisco Callmanager to Asterisk! (YAY) and a little bit of research with my colleague … “Cisco SIP IP Phone corporate directory integrated into FreePBX”

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I had responded to a thread on the FreePBX forum about how to restrict calling without a user first logging in on a device/user mode in FreePBX. Here’s a simple dialplan which you can then use for your implementation. For FreePBX users, put these lines … “FreePBX Device User Mode – Enforce login”

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Google’s awesome quality Voice service which lets you make free calls to US and Canada is now extended to 2011. There was news that it will only be for 2010 ,but now, in their blog statement they offer this all the way through 2011. Use … “Google Voice extends free calls to US and Canada for whole of 2011”

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Updated: 04-11-2013 This guide attempts to walk you through installing a faxing solution on top of Asterisk that has FreePBX as it’s frontend GUI/dialplan generator. So for it to work, you need to be 1) Using Debian (this is a Debian guide btw). Tested working … “[UPDATED] Asterisk & FreePBX Faxing Solution with IAXModem + Hylafax + AvantFax”

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Thought i’d write this if someone needs some assistance. Iphone installations using the Appstore while it’s a magical experience, it freaked me out when i had tried to download a game that was over 240MB but i wanted to cancel it and can’t do it … “Cancelling an iPhone AppStore Application Install”

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This release fixes the Google Voice out bug. So this would then supersede any patching needed to get Google Voice working on Asterisk 1.8 Get it from asterisk.org Cheers!

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I was at the office today and had to create more than 150 hosts and to create it one by one even with a text editor or WUIs, it can be very taxing. So being the lazy guy that i am, i created this script … “Nagios Bulk Host Creator (and other bulk operations, if you wish) straight into nagios format”

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Over the past two weekends, I’ve dwelled in some not-so-light weighted testing of the spanking new Asterisk 1. 8 PBX. While honestly, there’s not a world of improvements from its already awesome predecessors but heck, its technically only a minor version update from the powerhouses … “Unified Communications?– Use Google and Asterisk!”

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The Asterisk Calendaring API aims to be a generic interface for integrating Asterisk with various calendaring technologies. The goal is to be able to support reading and writing of calendar events as well as allowing notification of pending events through the Asterisk dialplan. There are … “Asterisk 1.8 Calendaring with text to speech reading out your calendar info”

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When Asterisk 1.8 was released, it had a perfect integration with Google Voice @voice.google.com service. Sometime in the 4th week of November, this broke and Gtalk worked (calling other google accounts) but calling Google Voice (e.g calling to US numbers for Free), didn’t. I just … “Google Voice on Asterisk 1.8 bug is now fixed!”

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