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Strange how Metacrawler is almost unheard of these days. Before Google, this used to be my favorite web search tool.

Moblogging is posting articles to the internet from a mobile device such as your mobile phone, PDA, or laptop.
By default, Wordpress comes with the functionality to let you post items from your email account or mobile phone. However there are some limitations, for example the default wp-mail.php file doesn’t support attached images or files, [...]

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I’ve been keeping notes while setting up Wordpress on my PC at home. What I really want is to be able to moblog – post articles from my phone. Its been difficult, but it looks like its just about starting to work. The hard part is getting the Postie mail plugin to work with Wordpress [...]

Below are four (4) questions and a bonus question. You have to answer them instantly. You can’t take your time, answer all of them immediately. OK?
Let’s find out just how clever you really are…
Ready? GO!!! (scroll down)

I downloaded Asterisk@Home from http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net It took a couple of hours at 46kbps

I have VMware, but you could also use the free VMWare Player and QEMU.
Set up a new virtual machine in VMware with an IDE disk and set the CDROM to point to the Asterisk@home ISO file.
Start the virtual machine and the A@H install [...]

This article shows how to run Asterisk on Windows by using the free VMware Player and QEMU emulator with the Asterisk@Home ISO (500Mb )

http://voipspeak.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=28
Btw you can download OS images preinstalled with a couple of applications for QEMU from http://www.oszoo.org/

If you have two softphones that you want to receive calls from the internet, set the ports as below then set your router to forward to each phone.

X-Lite 1:
Listen SIP Port: 5060
Listen RTP Port: 8000
Forward port 5060 to this PC.
X-Lite 2:
Listen SIP Port: 5061
Listen RTP Port: 8006
Forward port 5061 to this second PC.
If you have [...]

If your PC has speakers and a microphone, you can make phone calls by downloading a soft phone. Or you could replace your microphone with a USB phone, a phone that plugs into your PCs USB port.

Download software phones from SJLabs at http://www.sjlabs.com/sjp.html
There are packages for Telephony providers such as Vonage, VoiceGlo, Free World Dialup, [...]

The main Asterisk website, put together by the web developers at Digium

http://www.asterisk.org/
Astrisk documentation project
http://www.asteriskdocs.org
http://www.asteriskguru.com
A wiki about all things VOIP
http://www.voip-info.org
VOIPSpeak has news and articles all about VOIP, including useful articles on step-by-step configuration of Asterisk@Home and building your own PBX
http://voipspeak.net
Digium provides hardware for connecting phones and phone lines to your PC, and suppport for Asterisk PBX.
http://www.digium.com
They [...]