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    RSS FEED Electric Vehicles 101: 2024 EV Buyers’ and Owners’ Guide

    We’ve put this Electric Vehicle Guide together for those just getting their feet wet in the EV world. But we think you’ll find a few golden nuggets even if you’re a die hard EV owner like us. Our EV adventure began in 2016 with the purchase of a Tesla Model S with Full Self-Driving (FSD) …...
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    RSS FEED Introducing OSS Endpoint Manager for FreePBX 16 & Incredible PBX 2027

    If you’ve been searching for a free, open source provisioning system for your SIP telephones and you’re using Incredible PBX 2027 or other FreePBX® 16 platforms, your prayers have been answered thanks to the hard work of Bill Simon. What this buys you (for free) is a quick way to configure SIP...
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    RSS FEED 5 Minute PBX With Any Virtual Machine

    For those with an existing virtual machine platform either at home or at the office, today is your lucky day. We have an Incredible PBX image for VirtualBox, VMware, Proxmox, Windows WSL, Mac UTM, and Linux Containers LXC that will have an Asterisk® PBX with FreePBX® up and running in less than...
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    RSS FEED A Cloud-Based Asterisk PBX: 0 to $5/Mo.

    In our last post, we catalogued the various ways to deploy an Asterisk® PBX using existing Windows, Mac, or Linux desktop hardware. But that solution isn’t ideal for everyone especially if you’re looking for a cloud-based platform that provides redundancy and backups. So today we’ll introduce...
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    RSS FEED Deploying a Free Turnkey Phone System

    To say the New Year is ushering in a scaled back constituency for self-managed telephony systems would be an understatement. Much of this migration can be traced directly to the proliferation of cell phones coupled with the proliferation of Zoom and Microsoft Teams deployments thanks to the...
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    RSS FEED VoIP Messaging and The Golden Rule with Incredible PBX

    If you want to continue to use SMS and MMS messaging on your VoIP platform, then today’s navigation guide is worth a careful read. Suffice it to say, this is what happens when the feds shirk their responsibilities and leave it to the foxes to guard the chicken coop. The Golden Rule with all...
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    RSS FEED Incredible ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence For Your Phone

    Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock, you already know that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives. The reasons are fairly obvious. AI can process and analyze massive amounts of data in seconds that humans could spend months and years...
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    RSS FEED Virtualization Trifecta: $500 Buys a Perfect Hosting Platform

    We’ve been raving about Zorin OS 16 this month as the best desktop operating system available. And today we combine it with a $500 MiniPC to provide not one, but three, virtualization platforms with a single machine. You get LXC Linux Containers, VirtualBox, and the Windows 11 WSL platform all...
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    RSS FEED $99 Steal: Host Unlimited Email Domains for Life

    In these inflationary times, it’s always refreshing to find a technology solution that has actually decreased in price. To combat spam, hosting providers including Comcast and Spectrum have made it next to impossible to deploy a downstream mail server. So a relay hosting solution has become a...
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    RSS FEED Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Compromise All FreePBX Systems

    If you’re a user of Asterisk® and FreePBX®, the DEFCON 31 Conference in Las Vegas did not disappoint this year. It exposed not one but three critical, unpatched vulnerabilities in affected FreePBX-based platforms that can compromise your servers in under a minute. I would hasten to add that all...
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    RSS FEED Introducing Incredible PBX 2027 for LXC Linux Containers

    We introduced Zorin OS in our recent review of the latest Acer Aspire 5 notebook PC. If you’ve never heard of Zorin, it’s probably the best desktop operating system available. While it is Linux-based, it can look like any desktop you’re already familiar with including Windows 11 and even a Mac...
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    RSS FEED VirtualBox Wonder: It’s Incredible PBX 2027-D for Debian 11

    If you’re new to the VoIP world and want to kick the tires to see what you’re missing, then today’s one minute setup is for you. You can purchase a $1 a month phone number in your choice of area codes from CallCentric. Setup instructions here. If you decide VoIP is not for you, you don’t have to...
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    RSS FEED Meet the $500 Multi-Purpose Powerhouse: The Acer Aspire 5

    We review lots of hardware and numerous operating systems, but none come close to this steal from Amazon for under $500. The Acer Aspire 5 comes in many flavors at many price points. But, if loads of RAM (20GB) and a huge storage capacity (1TB NVMe SSD) top your list of must-haves, nothing we’ve...
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    RSS FEED Adding Incredible PBX Goodies & More to VitalPBX 4

    As continued use of FreePBX® becomes more and more precarious because of deprecated components and looming incompatibility with Asterisk® 21, the appeal of 3CX and VitalPBX as a VoIP platform becomes increasingly compelling. Whether you’re a home user, a small business, or a call center...
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    RSS FEED Newbie’s Roadmap to Streaming Audio and Music

    We’ve been a diehard audiophile beginning with our in-person autograph from Elvis on a Sunday afternoon while he was playing touch football in the vacant lot beside his mother’s home in Memphis. My first serious setup was a law school graduation present that included a McIntosh amp, preamp, and...
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    RSS FEED Summer Break: Catching Up on Nerd Vittles Happenings

    Nerd Vittles has been churning out technology articles for well over a decade. And, while you’re enjoying your time off this summer, we thought you might enjoy catching up on some of our most-read articles. According to Google Analytics, these were the most recent top picks from the 1.2+ million...
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    RSS FEED Building a Dirt-Cheap Communications Platform with VoIP

    There are literally thousands of options when you finally ditch your landline and stagger into the VoIP world. We’re often asked, "What would you recommend if price was the major criteria?" Our response goes something like this. You get what you pay for and our recommended providers continue to...
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    RSS FEED A New Incredible PBX 2027 Image for the Raspberry Pi

    Earlier this year we introduced a new Incredible PBX 2027 installer for the Raspberry Pi. But we heard from many of you that it was simply too time-consuming to go through both the installation of the Raspberry Pi OS and then the Incredible PBX 2027 setup. This is particularly important to those...
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    RSS FEED The Ultimate LTE Modem Router: Introducing Cudy LT500D

    It’s hard to get too excited when talking about routers, but the Cudy LT500D is something special. That’s because it’s not just a router. It’s also a 4G LTE modem. That means, when you snap in a SIM card from your favorite cellular provider, it becomes an always-available Internet connection...
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    RSS FEED Our Favorite All-You-Can-Eat Deals in Cyberspace

    Let’s begin with a mea culpa. We’ve been wrong on a few all-you-can-eat deals over the years including the CloudAtCost switcheroo, the Google Voice fiasco, and a few other cloud provider implosions. But our overall track record has been pretty good over the past decade, and today we have some...
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