I just started reading a book published by Packt Publishing, “AsteriskNOW” by Nir Simionovich. From the first glance or first thumb through, it is like looking at a meal that is visually satisfying. Well laid out and spiced up where necessary with real world examples.
As you know I have been a AsteriskNOW fan for very long time. I attest without any hesitations, That AsteriskNOW by Digium filled the gap left by what then Asterisk@home project when it got acquired by another party. For what ever the reason, I chose AsteriskNOW and was very happy with the decision, when the news came out that TrixBox (Asterisk@Homes new name) came with built in call home features. (Did TrixBox Trick You?) Ever since I have advocated AsteriskNOW for projects that deemed most suitable and a full blown installation of Asterisk seemed unnecessary.
Back to the book, and I will wet your appetite with the list of contents that I am devouring right now with a satisfaction that you only get from a good book.
I will be writing about the book as soon as I am done with reading but if you find the list of content is enough to convince you, you can get the book from Packt Publishing. It is also available in PDF format for all those tree loving AsteriskNow fans out there. For the paper loving people like me, Packt is offering free shipping to UK,US, Europe and selected Asian countries.
Table of contents.
Preface
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Telephony and Asterisk
Chapter 2: Building a PBX
Chapter 3: Extensions, Phones, and Others
Chapter 4: Service Providers—Your Connection to the World
Chapter 5: Tentacles of the PBX—The Calling Rules Tables
Chapter 6: “Let me in!”—Inbound Call Routing
Chapter 7: “For Annoyance, Press 1″—Voice Menus and IVR
Chapter 8: Voicemail, Conferencing, and Parking—Advanced PBX Services
Chapter 9: “Please hold, we’ll be with you shortly”—Simple Call Queues
Chapter 10: General AsteriskNOW Management—Monitoring, Backups, and More
Chapter 11: Hard Core AsteriskNOW
Chapter 12: Where to from Here?
Appendix A: Jargon Buster
Appendix B: Free World Dialup (FWD)
Appendix C: AsteriskNOW for Service Providers
Index
Read more from the original source:
AsteriskNOW, A Book By Packt Publishing, Prelude To A Review.
August 5th, 2008
Hi,
Recently, there has been a tremendous increase in Israeli voip companies and they being offering free voip phone calls worldwide. Few days ago we talked about Spikko, and now we have found yet another voip company offering free calls : Parrot Media.
Parrot Media is a recently launched voip service in its beta phase. Parrot Media is ad-based voip service. They are offering free voip phone calls to almost all countries in lieu of advertisement. They show you a small advertisement, which I think does not bother us as long as we are getting free calls. All domestic and international calls are totally free.
Parrot Media even covers destinations like Pakistan, Cuba, Bangladesh, UAE (Dubai). Calling rates being so high for these destinations, by providing free calls Parrot Media is sure to get high hits.
However, India is not included by Parrot Media. But for Free PC to Phone calls readers we have some other posts for calling India free viz. Free 60 minutes to India, Cheap (2.9cents) calls to India by Lingo and many others.
Parrot Media is actually offering Free Phone to phone calls. So, you need to have either a mobile or landline to make free calls via ParrotMedia. To make free voip phone calls -
1. Visit Parrot Media.
2. Register with Parrot Media by filling your details. A confirmation email will be sent to you.
3. You can log in. The whole registration process takes no more than 2 minutes.
4. In your account interface, you have the option to enter your phone number, and number you want to call.
5. You will be shown the duration for which your call will last. For calling landlines it is 5 minutes, for mobile phone it is 2 minutes.
6. Once you click “call”, your phone will ring and they will connect you to your destination.
In the future they have plans to extend duration of calls by interacting with another ad during the call.
Parrot Media also have some other plans of launching -:
- Free SMS
- Wake up call
- Recent calls list
- Address book
Overall, Parrot Media is in a way similar to globe7 in its earlier days when they were also giving free calls by watching videos. I guess if they keep giving free calls, Parrot Media is sure to get a huge success.
Just to remind our blog readers about some of the free calling offers -:
1. Cheap Calls to India
2. Free one hour calls to India : Rebtel voucher code
3. Free 2.5$ credit by Tpad exclusive offers for our blog readers.
If you like my blog, please subscribe to it or press Ctrl+D. This will enable you to keep yourself update with latest free offers. I will be postings such offers daily.
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Free VOIP international calls : Pakistan Included by Parrot Media
July 3rd, 2008
We like to see a great use of the technology we use and sell everyday and we think Nike have come up with a great idea.
They have launched a new service called Nike PhotoiD that aims to tap into the habits of the digital generation and the “growing expectations of consumers to customise their lives”. Nike PhotoiD employs technology that analyses the dominant colours of pictures taken on mobile phones.
Nike fans across Europe can now take pictures of brightly coloured subjects, such as street graffiti or clothing, and send a multimedia message to the service. In return, they will get a picture of a shoe customised to the main two colours in the shot.
PhotoiD designs will be mapped onto Nike’s classic 1985 Dunk high-top basketball sneakers.
Nike described the service as a “watershed moment in mobile campaign activity”.
“Where past use of MMS in mobile marketing campaigns has typically focused on short-term, one-way interactions between brand and consumers, Nike PhotoiD opens a genuine creative dialogue between the brand and its audience,” said Paolo Tubito, the director of brand connections for Nike Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Overall a very simple idea but one that will have todays generation of mobile users buying in more closely to the Nike brand which for Nike is a great marketing idea.
We saw the origional article over on the Guardian site here
Have a Look at the Nike promotional video
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Neat Use of Mobile Messaging
July 2nd, 2008
Hi,
Sendglobal, a prepaid international and domestic calling service is offering new users 3$ credit. Thanks to Sudhir Babu tumati and other readers for sharing us this information. The following article was send to us him under Pingo calling card competition.
Sendglobal is offering 3$ worth of free trial calls (Approx. 38 minutes to India) with promo code ‘KEFSW‘. Call quality is excellent. If one has multiple phones, this offer can be used multiple times 
(once for each phone).
Follow the steps mentioned below to make use of the offer :
–> Enter the promo code “KEFSW“
–> Enter your phone number
–> Select the Language
–> Enter email address (Used for verification)
and Click ‘Go’.
An email will be sent to you for verification and the account will be activated by clicking the link mentioned in the email.
This method can also be used to make free calls to India, Pakistan and many other countries. Hope this methods works. Please let us know by posting your comments if the above method worked successfully for you.
Just to remind our blog readers about some of the free calling offers -:
1. Free Calls to India
1. Free one hour calls to India : Rebtel voucher code
2. Free 2.5$ credit by Tpad exclusive offers for our blog readers.
3. Cheap unlimited calls to Pakistan by Yupeephone.
If you like my blog, please subscribe to it or press Ctrl+D. This will enable you to keep yourself update with latest free offers. I will be postings such offers daily.
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SendGlobal offering 3$ international call credit
July 1st, 2008
Hi,
Though voip providers keep on giving free calls, but these don’t last for too long. Large number of people in US, Canada, Australia are switching from regular phones to voip phones. They don’t mind spending few bucks if they get unlimited free calls or cheap calls to their destination specially to India.
Lingo voip service is just apt for these people. They are one of the leading voip provider with large customer base. These days they are running a large number of promotions. Lingo is offering unlimited free calls to about 22 countries which include US, Canada. Apart from this they are also offering cheap calls to India costing 2.9 cents/minute. I guess this is by far cheaper than many other voip providers. Calls to Bangladesh are charged at same rate of 2.9 cents.
Talking about other plans by Lingo Voip service.
Chatter Box Plan ($21.95 /mo)
- Unlimited Calls in US & to 22 Countries
- 30 Day Money Back Guarantee
- FREE First Month
- FREE Linksys Adapter
- Free 25$ American Express Card (offer valid till 7-8-08) : Use promo code “JYAM25“
Lingo South Asia ($29.95/mo)
- Unlimited calling to anywhere in the US, including HI, AK, USVI, and PR, and to Canada
- Great low rates to South Asia, including 2.9¢/min to India, and Bangladesh
- FREE unlimted calling to other In-Network Lingo subscribers
- Free one month
- Free shipping : Use promo code “2WKSA“
The image also shows some other calling plans by Lingo.
Lingo voip service looks quite promising to me. It is really a very nice for them who live in USA, Canada. They can call USA, Canada and other 22 countries for free. Together with that they can call India at 2.9cents. This way their overall monthly call expenditure is sure to decrease a lot.
For more info, visit Lingo.
Just to remind our blog readers about some of the free calling offer-:
1. Free Calls to India
1. Free one hour calls to India : Rebtel voucher code
2. Free 2.5$ credit by Tpad exclusive offers for our blog readers.
3. Cheap unlimited calls to Pakistan by Yupeephone.
If you like my blog, please subscribe to it or press Ctrl+D. This will enable you to keep yourself update with latest free offers. I will be postings such offers daily.
Cheap Calls to India and Free Calls to 22 Countries
June 29th, 2008
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