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Saturday, July 29th, 2006
Host your own Jabber server at Dreamhost
One of the cool things about Jabber is that it allows you to host your own server, which gives you an IM address like name@host.com.
The webhosting company Dreamhost has taken advantage of this and now offers to host your own Jabber server in any of their hosting plans. I haven’t tried the Jabber hosting, but [...]
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
Google adds File Transfer and more to GTalk
Google has just done a new release of the GTalk client, adding the much-requested file transfer feature. The new version also includes voicemail and “music status”, which will show what song you are listening in iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player and (interestingly) Yahoo Music Engine.
This is a significant release, because the lack of file transfer [...]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Skype Office Toolbar released - what about the Skype developer ecosystem?
Skype have just relased their Office Toolbar which allows you to:
Place calls and send the file you are currently working on via Skype. The toolbar recognizes phone numbers within your document and lets you call them using SkypeOut or send SMS messages.
I’m a little surprised that Skype developed this themselves and didn’t leave it for [...]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
LiveJournal to integrate Gizmo IM & Voice
Live Journal is integrating a white-label version of Gizmo in order to offer IM & Voice communications between Live Journal users. Presumably this will integrate the Gizmo contact list with the fairly sophisticated social networking features which already exist in Live Journal.
The press releases seem to indicate this will be the case:
Using the free Gizmo [...]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
How to do a Podcast with Skype
Vitamin, the producers of the Web2.0 podcast have an excellent how-to on using Skype in a podcast.
So you want to be a podcast superstar? Well, while this article might not make you a superstar, the aim is to help you record quality audio using Skype. Skype recording can be a tricky, but the benefits far [...]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Call Google Talk (or any SIP softphone?) from a landline
The GTalk2VoIP blog has details on how to call a GTalk user from a landline (or any PSTN phone including mobiles). It uses a gateway number provided by Sipbroker.com - with local number available in a wide range of countries. The instructions for use sound kind of complicated, but I suspect they in practice it [...]
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
WiFi phones for Skype and SIP: available now, but be careful what you buy
WiFi phones for use with Skype or SIP based VoIP providers (such as Gizmo) are slowly becoming available. For instance, the following phones are already available on Amazon:
Belkin Wi-Fi Phone for Skype ( F1PP000GN-SK )
NETGEAR WiFi Phone for Skype (SPH101)
Linksys WIP330 - Wireless VoIP phone (SIP based)
The Skype phones are also available in the Skype [...]
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
New Skype Preview for Mac out, with video
Skype has released a new version for the Mac, this time including video.
Skype for Mac with Video is currently a preview version. ‘Preview’ means that we’re still working on it and have only tested it under specific conditions, therefore we can’t guarantee the quality users on different hardware or operating systems will experience.
There are a [...]
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
OSCON Talk on configuring Asterisk
The slides from Brian Capouch’s talk at OSCON “Asterisk Inside and Out” are now available. The slides are available here.
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Free phone-to-phone calls via VOIPBuster
Some readers of this blog might not be aware of the wonderful service VOIPBuster offers on their webpage. Simply enter the number of the phone you would like to call, and the number of the phone you want to call from and Voipbuster will call them both. This works for international calls to landlines in [...]