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DialExtension 1.0.1 (Mac OS X)
If this was a free utility, it would deserve praise. It does what it says, however, given the limited feature set and the comparatively high asking price, I'm afraid to say this is not worth paying for, especially not when comparing it to Jon's Phone Tool (JPT), the gold standard for dialer applications available for the same price. [alert admin]
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Thursday, April 14 2005 @ 04:05 AM PDT
MacDial for Asterisk 1.0.1 (Mac OS X)
While it is always nice to see more applications supporting Asterisk, this dialer is underfeatured and overpriced. For less than half the asking price you can get Jon's Phone Tool (JPT) which is a dialer that outperforms MacDial hands down in every aspect other than support for the proprietary ISDN telephone sets that MacDial can interface to. Consequently, if you need support for those ISDN telephone sets this would be the only justification to buy and use MacDial. Then again, if you deploy Asterisk, the chance is you will go for IP telephone sets and move away from proprietary phone technology. If you are looking for a dialer for Asterisk, then JPT is your choice. While JPT does support many dial methods other than Asterisk, it still outperforms MacDial even if you are looking for a dialer for use with Asterisk only. [alert admin]
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Thursday, April 14 2005 @ 03:43 AM PDT
VaporSec 1.0 (Mac OS X)
I like and respect those guys from afp548.com but with all due respect, this VaporSec thing is totally useless. I launched it and it starts making noise as if I was holding down a key on the keyboard for too long overflowing the keystroke buffer. This goes on for about a minute and then it opens a window that says "AppleScript Error". Then next thing that happens is a dialog box that asks me to "enter your admin password". Well, so what's my admin password then? How do I set the initial password? where is the default password documented? I checked out the .rtfd manual but it says nothing in this respect. Sorry, but this is in such a poor state this shouldn't have been released yet. I rather spend the time setting a VPN tunnel up myself on the commandline, it's time consuming yes, but it won't be a waste of time like this VaporSec thingy. bk [alert admin]
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Thursday, April 22 2004 @ 05:50 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by yaboot [ Search for All ]
The drivers for PCI telephony cards are not available on BSD (and OSX) yet, only on Linux. Therefore, when using Asterisk on OSX, you will need external devices to connect phone lines to your Asterisk server. Those are generally called media gateways. Media gateways have at least one ethernet port on one side and one or more telephone ports on the other side. There are media gateways with analog ports and those with digital ports (ISDN).…
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Friday, July 23 2004 @ 06:31 AM PDT
With a dedicated G5 as an Asterisk server, you could provide telephone service to a small to medium sized town :-) For a home or office PBX, an old G3 will do just fine. rgds benjk -- Sunrise Telephone Systems Ltd
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Wednesday, July 21 2004 @ 12:48 PM PDT
Want less of a nuts and bolts approach? 
PhoneValet and Phlink are answering machines with a desktop dialler. Asterisk is a fully featured telephone exchange for both POTS (plain old telephone system) and VoIP (voice over IP). . With PhoneValet and Phlink you can replace the answering machine at home. With Asterisk on an Xserve you can run the telephone service of a small town with 10.000 people, if not more. They are simply not in the same category. What you are talking about is…
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Sunday, July 18 2004 @ 10:05 AM PDT
