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It’s fairly simple to setup a programmable speeddial with asterisk. All with a option to playback what speed dials you have setup.
You’ll need to setup the dialplan to handle the extensions for the speeddial. For me, I choose a *29 to setup the speed dials, then *3X, *4X, and *5X as the actual speed dials. *30, *40, *50 are reserved for playback (see later). I used each range to...

After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 which includes Asterisk 1.6 my Google Voice connection through Gizmo5 stopped working. Sound familiar?
The issue is that Asterisk 1.6 requires insecure=invite in the sip.conf definition for Gizmo.
Here’s my working config:...

Anyone whom uses asterisk knows that Asterisk can send voicemail notifications to your cell phone. Normally the Asterisk voicemail.conf file would look like this:
This would send a short text message to your cell phone indicating you have a new voicemail. It would also send the voicemail itself as an attachment to your email address. This example goes to a Verizon wireless cell phone. Once you get the notification...

Google reader is a nice way to have all your RSS feeds in one place.   They even have a way to share an interesting article you want with other people, even friends.  I found this good, but wanted a better way to share to specific friends that would...