Archive for January, 2007:

The Snom 360 and Asterisk


Published on January 28th, 2007
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I replaced my — not very good — imported VOIP handset with a Snom 360. Conveniently, the Asterisk sip.conf has a loose default user for SNOM defined, but it’s not perfect, and certainly didn’t let me use the SNOM and voicemail properly.
Firstly, the DTMF mode must be rfc2833, and not inband as indicated. [...]

Facilities near the London Redbus DCs


Published on January 20th, 2007
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I’ve been heading to Meridian Gate and Soverign House for work, for a couple of years now, so I thought it might be handy to write up some of the facilities nearby that I have found useful for any first time visitors who might stumble upon this post.
Places to Stay
The International is really bad, but [...]

Early impressions of the Vodafone 3G USB modem.


Published on January 17th, 2007
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Working for a client in London today, so for a change, I decided to grab the train, rather than drive down to E14. This was therefore the perfect chance to try out the new USB Modem I picked up from Vodafone on the move.
Many of you will know I am a mac advocate, and [...]

The Commodification of Web applications


Published on January 16th, 2007
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I moved the content of my site (this one) over to the Wordpress CMS yesterday, and was immediately impressed with how great everything worked out of the box.  From the tongue in cheek install process (which on page 3, the final page, of the clean web installer, joked “Sorry if you were wanting more steps..”), [...]

The Nokia E61


Published on January 15th, 2007
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Loads of telephones in the past few years have been selling with lots of Smartphone features. Early models such as the Nokia Communicator were impressively good to use with built in telnet clients and web browsers. Then, Sony livened up the scene with the introduction of the P800 – a telephone with a [...]