Technology

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Twitter ended supported for basic authentication this morning putting Tweet2Dial and TweedleD in the graveyard. Today we restore TweedleD to the living using Twitter's new OAuth authentication scheme. When new calls arrive on your Asterisk server, TweedleD generates Twitter and SMS messages to alert you.

If you’ve never been to Alaska, you really should add it to your Bucket List. No, I couldn’t see Russia… even with binoculars. But, after being out of the travel loop for the better part of this decade, it was an awakening experience on many levels: air travel, airport security, cruise travel, Internet connectivity, national [...]

The Incredible PBX: a turnkey PBX in a Flash-based system designed for Zero Internet Footprint with free inbound and outbound calling throughout the U.S./Canada and dozens of free Asterisk applications to handle every imaginable PBX task. Rock-solid security, randomly-generated extension passwords, free Skype calling, and more...

Meet Gobble for Google docs: a wget and curl-like utility to programmatically download publicly-accessible files from Google docs. And it's yours to embellish as you see fit thanks to its GPL2 license.

We are pleased to introduce the latest, greatest PBX in a Flash with 32-bit and 64-bit CentOS 5.5 support and three customizable editions supporting Asterisk 1.4, Asterisk 1.6.2, Zaptel, and DAHDI.

This week we introduce a new, ultra-secure methodology for managing remote phone access to your Incredible PBX. Meet Travelin' Man, a web-based, one-click Asterisk application that automatically reconfigures your Asterisk PBX to enable remote SIP phone access. Supports one extension or hundreds. Setup is simple and takes only a few minutes.

Today we review four of the world's best VoIP softphones for use with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Included in our roundup are Acrobits SIP Softphone, the WiFone from Snizmo.com, the Media5-fone, and Counterpath's new Bria softphone.

Adding remote phones and connections to any Asterisk PBX can be a daunting task. Today we'll cover the risks and lay out a range of safe and secure options for connecting Grandma as well as your traveling cellphones to Incredible PBX. In addition we provide our Baker's Dozen checklist for keeping SIP access to your VoIP server secure.

Incredible PBX list of goodies expands with support for multiple Google Voice trunks. Instead of one free PSTN call at a time in the U.S. and Canada, now you can make lots of simultaneous calls plus free Skype calling and free SIP calling worldwide in addition to dozens of free Asterisk apps.