A few weeks ago I published an article entitled How to use Google Voice for free outgoing calls on an Asterisk/FreePBX system (the easy way) . If you are a regular reader of my blog you know that it’s always a good idea to check the date on an article, and if it’s under a week old, check back in a week because it’s probably going to get edited or corrected in that time! In the case of that particular article, not only were there several edits and corrections, but it turns out that I could have done things just a bit differently and made what some might consider an improvement in the way it works. Now, before you go firing up your keyboard to change your existing setup, let me tell you what is different about the method I am presenting here
EDIT: Unless you are an Asterisk guru, PLEASE SKIP THIS ARTICLE. Something is still not working right. It was working great earlier, then I published this article and went to make a call and now it’s not working again. If you are an Asterisk genius, maybe you can tell me what I am doing wrong, but everyone else should skip this until I can figure out the problem! A few weeks ago I published an article entitled How to use Google Voice for free outgoing calls on an Asterisk/FreePBX system (the easy way) . If you are a regular reader of my blog you know that it’s always a good idea to check the date on an article, and if it’s under a week old, check back in a week because it’s probably going to get edited or corrected in that time! In the case of that particular article, not only were there several edits and corrections, but it turns out that I could have done things just a bit differently and made what some might consider an improvement in the way it works. Now, before you go firing up your keyboard to change your existing setup, let me tell you what is different about the method I am presenting here.
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(Skip this article) Possibly improved way to use Google Voice for free outgoing calls on an Asterisk/FreePBX system (the easy way)
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There are times I love the Nerd Vittles site – they come up with some interesting and clever ways to use the Asterisk PBX. And then again, every so often, there are times when I actually read their instructions and wonder, “Why are they doing it that way?” It just seems like they are either making things a bit more difficult than they need to be, and/or doing things in a non-standard way that could cause problems down the road when the underlying software is updated. As an example, many Asterisk “all in one” distributions (including PBX in a Flash, the package promoted on the Nerd Vittles site) use both Asterisk and FreePBX as their underlying software. FreePBX in particular has a nasty habit of “breaking” existing installations if you upgrade the FreePBX software and are running anything outside their GUI — even third-party FreePBX modules aren’t safe (if you’re into this stuff, you might have read about the recent brouhaha with the Custom Contexts module — I don’t want to get into that issue in this article, but suffice it to say that if I spoke my mind on the subject, the FreePBX developers probably wouldn’t like me very much). So, when I read the article Tweaking Asterisk for Free Google Voice Calling on the Nerd Vittles site, I thought it was a great idea, but just didn’t care for the way they implemented it.
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How to use Google Voice for free outgoing calls on an Asterisk/FreePBX system (the easy way)
The Comscore Search Market Rankings data for the US in March had few surprises: Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in March with 65.1 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (16.9 percent), and Microsoft Sites (11.7 percent). Ask Network captured 3.8 percent of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 2.5 percent
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Google Places Is Where It Is At
Here’s a nice review of Google’s Nexus One from Tim O’Reilly . While I’m in the neighborhood, here’s another Nexus One review from Walt Mossberg of All Things D. I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing one yet, but this device sounds like a great iPhone competitor.
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O’Reilly’s take on Google’s Nexus One
Finally Google announces the Android Press Conference on 5 of January 2010. So, its seems that Google is going to reveal their Android powered phone Nexus One .
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Android Press conference to held on 5th January
A user at Twitter shows off some unboxing pics and a video of Nexus One aka Google Phone. Pics are pretty clearer then the older pics leaked on the web. As HTC logo was absent from Nexus One pics but in these pictures battery of phone is showing “HTC Innovation” logo
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Nexus One new Pics and Video:Updated
The widely rumored Gphone hit the news few days ago in the widely commented Android dogfood diet for the holidays post on Google Mobile blog: “We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities, and we shared this device with Google employees across the globe. This means they get to test out a new technology and help improve it.” Many spent few words about this statement and, by reading this post on Zdnet I’ve got too few thoughts about it
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The unavoidable Googlephone is arriving: a Nexus that was lacking between Android and real life.
Google employees were given free Nexus One phones at a company party Friday night, and the Internet went into a tizzy . Reports surfaced later in the weekend that this device was the long-awaited Google phone, the company’s answer to Apple’s strategy of controlling the hardware, software, and distribution model with the iPhone , rather than the partner-oriented strategy of developing the guts of the operating system and letting partners each put their own stamp on the finished product
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Google ponders risky Android solo act
It seems the rumors of an impending Google Phone are true and Google employees have begun dogfooding the new Android smartphone; dogfooding is the process of employees testing and providing feedback (eating your own dogfood). Google employees were Tweeting about the device Friday night and the story has been confirmed by Google and TechCrunch and Engadget dug up a few photo’s which can be found HERE . The device, as rumored previously, is being made by HTC with a lot of input from Google and is running a Snapdragon chip and is ‘very fast’ according to those who have seen it in action. This will be a pure Google phone and will offer a ‘pure’ Google experience as they envision it. It has a large, super-high resolution OLED touchscreen, is thinner than the iPhone, and supposedly will over a voice-to-text feature for dictating emails, etc.
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The Google Phone surfaces….the dogfooding starts
The long-rumored gPhone has surfaced, but no one can agree on what it means The purported Google phone. Photo: Cory O'Brien Google ( GOOG ) announced on its mobile blog Saturday what dozens of staffers had already leaked : the company has given employees around the world free handsets running its Android mobile operating system
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Nine ways of looking at a Google phone
A new picture of the Google Phone appears on Twitter. It is pretty clear picture than the previous ones and Phone is looking nice. But there is difference of HTC logo, that is missing in this picture.
Chances are you have seen that some Googlers’ were tweeting about the rumored Google Phone at their last meeting of the year. Descriptions vary from simply “beautiful” to “A sexy beast. Like an iPhone on beautifying steroids.” Beyond the vague praise the only real information among all the tweets was that the phone is made by HTC, unlocked, runs Android 2.1, has animated home screen backgrounds and is due out in January
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The Google Phone
Stick this one firmly in the rumor category, since all the verbiage that’s been thrown around about this story still traces back to one single source: a slightly ill-informed article done up in MarketingWeek in the UK. The article cites unspecified “senior industry sources,” and goes on about how this is Dell and Google working closely together on what is more or less the “ Gphone .” Since we have no reason to believe Google is going to jeopardize its Android OS by getting extra-friendly with one specific manufacturer, the primary weight we can give to this rumor is that fact that Dell picked up a former Motorola executive, Ron Garriques, to run its Global Consumer Group early last year
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Dell + Android ? (Source: Engaget)
Google va lansa propriul telefon branduit la inceputul lui 2010, care va reflecta viziunea companiei privind modul in care ar trebui sa fie un dispozitiv de telefonie mobila , informeaza TechCrunch. Noul telefon Google va fi vandut direct sau prin intermediul retailerilor
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GPhone – Google va lansa un telefon sub propriul brand
The rumors have abounded for a few months now whether Google is making hardware and will be launching a smartphone in the near future; the head geeks at Google are supposedly running around their offices in Mountain View with beta devices attached to their belts. What’s next? YPhone? MPhone? (that’s Yahoo and Microsoft in case you wondered). There are rumors that a sleek, slick, google-built smartphone will hit after the new year with a big marketing splash in January since they missed the holiday season. Google’s Andy Rubin, head Droid-head, stated they aren’t building hardware and interested in competing with customers, but since most likely a Korean company is doing the manufacturing, google technically isn’t ‘building’ a smartphone. Hmmm….what’s the diff, right?
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Google made GPhone – Fact or Fiction?
Most people by now have dismissed the fact that Google’s once-rumored GPhone is software in the form of the Google Android operating system, but word has it an actual piece of hardware is in the works. Apparently, the Google Phone will be even more exciting compared to the already delectable Motorola Droid, which goes to say a whole lot. Google won’t plunge head long into manufacturing the handset but will instead rely on a major mobile company – this while Google is in full control where design and specifications are concerned.
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GPhone is very real
Es ist eine der hartnäckigsten Behauptungen im Markt und taucht immer wieder auf: Dass eines Tages der Markenname Google auf einem eigenen Android-Handy prangt. Diesmal steht LG im Verdacht, nicht einfach nur ein weiteres Android-Handy zu basteln, sondern es exklusiv im Auftrage von Google für Google zu tun: Auf Basis des Modells GW620 werde es eine schlanke elegante G-Variante ohne Minitastatur (nur virtuell), mit superschnellem Snapdragon-Prozessor geben, sollen Quellen dem Branchenportal TechCrunch gesteckt haben
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Gerücht: LG soll doch ein exklusives GooglePhone basteln
Madoco 的 ROM 試了有一天多，感覺很一般。系統不定時出現很大的延遲， 差不多全體癱瘓個幾十秒也不是沒有…估計是 Kernel 正在進行記憶及 Swap 之間的資料交換。 Swap 建在 Class 4 的 SD 卡上，按Android 的內部資料流量來說應該還能應乎才對…也許 Embedded Linux 在處理器及資源的限制下，實在不應用到 Swap；同時也應驗了 GalaxHero ROM 作者對” Swap 是系統效能的殺手”的說法… 用上 Madoco 前還試刷了 Galaxo 及 GalaxHero, 為的就是試一下帶 compcache 的系統反應。不過沒有完全按指示，換成歐版的 II5 baseband。配合港版 ZHII4 的結果就是兩者都卡在開機畫面(似乎在bootloader卡死了吧..?)，邊玩 Dragon Age 邊等下，過了一個多小時還是不變…可惜。或許試過 Madoco 後再老老實實按 Steps 重刷一下。 未來希望有支援 compcache 的 ROM 發佈出來吧。畢竟 swap 到壓縮記憶體也鐵定比 SD 快，同時 compcache 主頁內的 Android 試用回響也好像很不錯，搞得我有點期待。 順帶一提，Madoco 跟 Nandroid 也許相性不太好，暫時也不知是 swap 問題還是 Customize 所致。 我是先裝 Madoco，以 nandroid backup 後剷掉刷GalaxHero/Galaxo， 然後剷掉再速試國人的完美港版，最後再 restore 那備份。結果是 Madoco 的備份有問題，起初估計跟完美港版的 bootloader 不兼容，故先以 Odin 完全地刷入官方港版，灌了無敵 recovery image 後再 restore 也不行。最後用上初期以官方 Rom 為 base 的 backup 才行。然後再以 recovery mode 刷入 Madoco。 還有，終於找到其他 Keyboard 替換內建的那個低能貨。用過 iPhone 的人去用 Android 內建的 Keyboard，不扔機子也鐵定氣死(如我)。 這兩個替換品分別是 Better Keyboard 及 AnysoftKeyboard。 前者功能可能是最強，操作及方便感也最貼近 iPhone 的，更有大量不同 Skin ；可惜本地 Market 下不到 ( 卻找到一大堆 Skin…莫明其妙)。後者則可從 Market 下載，功能及外型也不差 Better Keyboard 很多，免費開源又簡單，嫌煩的人最佳選擇也。也可惜 Lime 不能換別人的 Keyboard 用…他那跟內建的比也是五十步百步之流…-_-
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Samsung Galaxy MOD notes 2