http://bestof.nerdvittles.com The Best of Nerd Vittles - by Ward Mundy en-us http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/images/nv.jpg http://bestof.nerdvittles.com 75 80 http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/FONmail/ Using a touchtone phone connected to your Asterisk system, you now can dictate a message and have it delivered in your own voice to any email address. Just dial the phone number of the recipient or enter the first three letters of the recipient's name, and FONmail for Asterisk will look up the email address out of AsteriDex and deliver your message. It's the perfect tool for Road Warriors! http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/xtide/ Using a touchtone phone connected to your Asterisk system, you now can retrieve the latest tide, lunar, and solar information for almost any port city. A one-minute installer is available for PBX in a Flash systems. Flite and Cepstral TTS engines are supported for Asterisk 1.4, and Cepstral is supported with Asterisk 1.6. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/teleyapper4/ Using a touchtone phone connected to your Asterisk system, you now can set up your own phone blasts to any size group of telephone recipients. Custom recorded messages and text-to-speech messages tailored to each recipient are both supported in version 4. Software is licensed for non-commercial use only and is perfect for safety alerts, little league reminders, and community service announcements. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/reminders4/ Using a touchtone phone connected to your Asterisk system, you now can schedule reminders with customized phone messages for the recipient. Version 3 added support for recurring reminders: weekday, daily, weekly, monthly, and annually. Now version 4 introduces Web Scheduling with a convenient web interface to deliver text-to-speech reminders to any phone using Flite or Cepstral. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/scripts/ We're pleased to introduce our all-new PBX in a Flash script repository. These scripts provide almost instant installation of numerous PBX in a Flash applications while eliminating the complexity of most software installs. Typical installation times are under one minute. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/asteridex4/ AsteriDex 4.0 is a web-based dialer and address book application for Asterisk. It lets you store and manage phone numbers of all your friends and business associates in an easy-to-use MySQL database. Application includes Click-to-Dial and Phone Book web apps plus a Speed Dialer plus integrated CallerID lookups... http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/weather-airport/ Maintenance release from Nerd Vittles to fix NWS software mod. Just perform new AGI Script Setup to get back in business. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/weather-zip/ Maintenance release from Nerd Vittles to fix NWS software mod. Just perform new AGI Script Setup to get back in business. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/asteridex/ For those using AsteriDex on the Internet, a security vulnerability was discovered in the callboth.php script located in /var/www/html/asteridex. Download asteridex31.zip and replace your existing callboth.php file. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/reminders/ Using a touchtone phone connected to your Asterisk system, you now can schedule reminders with customized phone messages for the recipient. Version 3 adds support for recurring reminders: weekday, daily, weekly, monthly, and annually. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/wifi/ Using a touchtone phone connected to your Asterisk system, you now can retrieve the names and addresses of WiFi Hot Spots for any zip code in the United States. Just dial Wi-Fi, key in a zip code, and listen. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/phonegenie/ Version 2.0 of Phone Genie for Asterisk is now available. This update adds HTTPS support and provides a new SYS command to execute virtually any Linux command or script from your browser. For complete documentation, read the updated Best of Nerd Vittles article on Phone Genie 2.0. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/phonegenie/ Version 1.2 of Phone Genie for Asterisk is now available. This update provides complete support for all Asterisk Command Line Interface (CLI) commands. For complete documentation, read the updated Best of Nerd Vittles article on Phone Genie 1.2. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/phonegenie/ Version 1.1 of Phone Genie for Asterisk was released today. In addition to the admin password, it now provides individual password support for every extension on your Asterisk system. Using an extension password, a user can only execute commands pertaining to the individual user’s extension. For complete documentation, read this Best of Nerd Vittles update on Phone Genie 1.1. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/phonegenie/ Nerd Vittles Phone Genie for Asterisk application provides an easy-to-use web interface to the the Asterisk Manager API. On systems running freePBX or the Asterisk Management Portal, browser commands can be issued to Phone Genie to control call forwarding, call waiting, call tracing, do not disturb, and more... http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/ The Asterisk Weather Station by Airport Code and by Zip Code both have been updated to resolve some changes made by the National Weather Service in the web-based data stream. For those that have previously installed the code, only the PHP applications need to be replaced. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/weather-world/ The Worldwide Weather Forecasts for Asterisk application provides five-day weather forecasts for thousands of cities around the globe. Just pick up a phone, dial 612, and key in the code for the weather forecast you wish to retrieve from London's Channel 4 Weather Center... http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/callerid/ Introducing a CallerID lookup utility for those using freePBX 2.2.0 or higher. Get instant CallerID name lookups with Asterisk from AsteriDex, the Google Phonebook, and AnyWho. Nerd Vittles how-to for upgrading to freePBX 2.2.0 available Wednesday, January 17, 2007. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/screenpop/ Whimsical and yellow phone slip executables as well as a user-customizable phone slip have been added to the new zip download file. That's it for a while. We're sick of phone slips. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/screenpop/ Bug Fix to resolve memory leak. Also added IncludeSource option to display incoming trunk info for calls. This information does not yet get written to the call log so it is not available in reviewing previous calls. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/screenpop/ Introducing version 2 of the free Windows ScreenPop Utility for Asterisk. The new version features an all-new user interface patterned after the ubiquitous office phone slip and a calling log which can be scrolled through by paging down through your phone slip pile. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/screenpop/ In keeping with our Version 1.0 warning, there's been a bug fix release to block display of outbound calls. In addition, we've added an option to add U-Rang as a System Tray item while running. Our cruise was also cancelled if that makes you feel better. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/screenpop/ Finally, a free Windows Desktop ScreenPop utility that monitors incoming calls on any selection of Asterisk extensions you care to dream up. http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/tutorials/samba/ Samba is the open source answer to Windows Networking. This tutorial shows how to install it on your TrixBox 1.2.3 PBX server in under two minutes... http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/weather-airport/ The Asterisk Weather Station by Airport Code provides weather conditions and seven-day forecasts for up to 1,000 U.S. airports. Just pick up a phone, dial 711, and key in the three-character Airport Code for the weather report you wish to retrieve from the National Weather Service... http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/weather-zip/ The Asterisk Weather Station by ZIP Code provides weather conditions and seven-day forecasts for 42,740 U.S. ZIP Codes. Just pick up a phone, dial Z-I-P, and key in the five-digit ZIP Code for the weather report you wish to retrieve from the National Weather Service... http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/asteridex/ AsteriDex is a web-based dialer and address book application for Asterisk. It lets you store and manage phone numbers of all your friends and business associates in an easy-to-use MySQL database. Application includes Click-to-Dial and Phone Book web apps plus a Speed Dialer plus integrated CallerID lookups... http://bestof.nerdvittles.com In addition to Mohammed (of Hegira fame), Robert E. Lee, Edith Bunker (aka Jean Stapleton), and Janis Joplin, Nerd Vittles celebrates a big birthday today. To kick off the festivities, we're introducing a new web site: The Best of Nerd Vittles. Even though we love WordPress, much of the Nerd Vittles subject matter just needs a facelift once the original columns have run. We also have been searching for a format with less processing overhead which better lends itself to printing and to keeping articles and apps current without losing the context of the original information...