The 4th Cloud Service? – VoIP As a Service (VaaS)

This weekend, i had a chance to present to Microsoft guests at their office here in Malaysia about cloud computing and focusing my talk on cloud technology security. It was clear after a while jiving with those techies and seeing their responses and also doing … “The 4th Cloud Service? – VoIP As a Service (VaaS)”

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How to make FreePBX updates through Proxy

SInce FreePBX does not honour the proxy settings via the bash export, you need to tell Apache instead to use a proxy. This would apply for FreePBX as well. Here’s a how to for Debians. 1) #nano  /etc/apache2/envvars 2) Add the following codes at the … “How to make FreePBX updates through Proxy”

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Asterisk | FreePBX boss secretary module (updated)

In some of our migrations to Asterisk, users keep asking about this feature where the secretary can pickup calls from the boss using a function key in their phones that support them. Here’s the challenge, the secretary asked us to setup in such a way … “Asterisk | FreePBX boss secretary module (updated)”

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Asternic Stats Outbound Tracking with FreePBX

We at Astiostech use Asternic (www.asternic.biz) quite extensively for basic call centres that require a simple interface for wallboards, reports and recordings. Asternic also provides some capabilities to monitor outbound callcenters where agents make random calls to introduce new services or businesses. In this guide, … “Asternic Stats Outbound Tracking with FreePBX”

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FreePBX Device User Mode – Enforce login

I had responded to a thread on the FreePBX forum about how to restrict calling without a user first logging in on a device/user mode in FreePBX. Here’s a simple dialplan which you can then use for your implementation. For FreePBX users, put these lines … “FreePBX Device User Mode – Enforce login”

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[UPDATED] Asterisk & FreePBX Faxing Solution with IAXModem + Hylafax + AvantFax

Updated: 04-11-2013 This guide attempts to walk you through installing a faxing solution on top of Asterisk that has FreePBX as it’s frontend GUI/dialplan generator. So for it to work, you need to be 1) Using Debian (this is a Debian guide btw). Tested working … “[UPDATED] Asterisk & FreePBX Faxing Solution with IAXModem + Hylafax + AvantFax”

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Cancelling an iPhone AppStore Application Install

Thought i’d write this if someone needs some assistance. Iphone installations using the Appstore while it’s a magical experience, it freaked me out when i had tried to download a game that was over 240MB but i wanted to cancel it and can’t do it … “Cancelling an iPhone AppStore Application Install”

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