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Bria Android Smartphone App

I have been testing several free SIP Apps to go along with my FreePBX Asterisk server and after using an excellent app CSipSimple for a while I wanted to test how one of the paid variants would compare. This had me looking right at CounterPath Corp’s Bria VoIP Softphone for Android. An app suited for corporations […]

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Convert VirtualBox VDI to VMware VMDK

I am in the process of moving VirtualBox vdi’s over the VMware ESXi host so what better chance is there to post the process I am taking to make this happen. To perform this “magic” trick you will be using the VBoxManger tool to clone the VirtualBox disk into VMware formatted disk types. I am […]

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Google Voice Setup on FreePBX and Asterisk Version 11

This past weekend I installed a fresh new FreePBX (FreePBX 2.11.0) distribution with Asterisk 11.3. The install of FreePBX and Asterisk is made simple and once installed you have a fully functioning PBX waiting for your phones and trunks to connect. I don’t have a trunk provider at this time so I decided to use Google Voice […]

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Extending Windows 8 Trial

I have been using the Windows 8 Enterprise for several months this way for testing rather than backup my data and reinstall the OS just to reinstall my applications, followed by configuration tweaks, which can be time consuming. I have started extending the trail to give me more time. The process of extending a trial […]

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Dear Moma

There isn’t a card I could by to express the love I have for my mom this mothers day. Rather than use the words of some hallmark card, I’ll use an abridged version of a song I know: “Dear Moma” When I was young me and my mama had beef Seventeen years old kicked out […]

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Asterisk 11

Hello All, Its been awhile and now I am back to using #Asterisk version 11. Best of all is the simple to configure Google Voice configuration setup via the #FreePBX Web Interface. Asterisk 11 introduces several new features that build on the features in Asterisk 10. Highlights include: Call Identifier Logging, which makes it easier […]