Finding a good and cheap VOIP provider in South Africa can be difficult. Where to start? First of, check out this page if you would like to know what VOIP is. Most of the pages you probably already found on the internet sells VOIP in bulk and does not cater for home users or very [...]
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What is VOIP or IP Telehony
September 29th, 2011 
markus Very basic/Simple explenation of VOIP.”What is VOIP?” I have seen this question many times before. VOIP is a network/Internet based telephony protocol. What this means is; A phone system that works over the internet or office/home network. Why would you want VOIP?The primary reasons is; money savings. No more third party costs for PABX, use [...]
Freepbx GUI for Asterisk install
September 27th, 2011 admin Here is a quick installation guide how to install Freepbx on your system. This is basically the same for Ubuntu, Suse, Gentoo and Centos. You would need to install the basics, Gcc compiler, Apache, Mysqld, Kernel Sources, Ncurses, Php, curl. Follow the simple steps. cd /usr/src wget http://mirror.freepbx.org/freepbx-2.9.0.tar.gz tar zxvf freepbx-2.9.0.tar.gz cd /freepbx-2.9.0 ./start_asterisk start [...]
Removing trailing html from url
September 20th, 2011 markus If you have migrated from Blogger to WordPress or any other php site, what ever the case might be. You are probably stuck with back links that doesn’t work since they point to a 404 page. In wordpress, there is a very handy plugin called Redirection. This allows to redirect all your pages that ends with .html to your [...]
How to setup a Network
September 15th, 2011 markus To setup a network at Home/Work is almost the same. May it be Wireless or a Wired network. Our life is made easier with newer technologies. Windows 7 for instance, I’ll explain a bit more later on. Firstly, at home. You would require some hardware to make a network work great/fast and reliable. Network Switch/Hub(old) [...]
How to check/change your IP address
September 15th, 2011 markus Here is how to change/check you IP address on Windows Xp, Windows 7. Windows 7: Right/Left click on the Computer icon screen in the bottom right corner of your screen. Click “Open Network Sharing Center” On the Left side of your newly openend screen, you will see a few options. Click on “Change Adapter Settings” [...]
Snom 300 business VOIP/SIP phone
September 15th, 2011 markus The Snom 300 is a good entry level business VOIP/SIP phone that works great with Asterisk. It’s well priced, rugged, small LCD screen and has a lot of features. One of most handy features of the phone is that it can accept Auto Provision. (Settings is looked up after it received a DHCP address based [...]
Adding lightbox to blogger
September 15th, 2011 markus Adding lightbox to blogger Here is a quick and easy how to: Firstly, download the css script file of lightbox here. Host this somewhere easy accesable, or find a place where it’s already hosted for you. Login to Blogger.com, direct to Dashboard, Design and then select “edit HTML” Find the closing html “</html>” and “</head>” [...]
BlackBerry internet usage caps/limits
September 13th, 2011 markus Vodacom announced internet usage throttle’s on their Blackberry clients. Vodacom says that 95% of the data usage was only done by 5% of the users. Personally I think Vodacom is playing with fire and will lose a lot of clients if they get throttled. “Unlimited” BIS on BlackBerry’s is a big selling point for them. CellC and 8ta have no [...]
Motorola Droid Bionic to be released into the wild
September 6th, 2011 admin Motorola is releasing it’s Bionic 4.3″ (4.5″ rumored) monster on 8 September 2011 The phone supports dual LTE upto 3.1Mbps, 540 x 960 display, 512MB Ram and Dual-core 1GHZ processor with a Tegra 2 GPU. Admittedly this is not the most powerful Android Smartphone. But a big contender in the LTE market next to HTC [...]