Grimsy's Blog

Trying out Tynt

I've just added a new script to my pages from tynt.com. Our patent pending Tynt Insight technology tracks what’s being copied off your site and automatically adds a link back to your content with every paste. Read more: http://www.tynt.com/#ixzz0by1i2hgN Apparently it works with images too. Free sign-up and fairly painless to add a line to the wordpress template.

New battery for ClearOne Max Conference Phone

We have a ClearOne Max conference phone at work that has been in need of a new battery for a while. When we do get new batteries for it, they never seem to last as long as they should and always need to be ordered in. Solution: Use an RC battery pack. The battery in the conference unit is a 7.2V 1800mAh NiMH battery pack. The RC battery pack is 3000mAH so we get much longer out of it on a single charge. We're still able to use the normal charger that came with the phone too. Sure it might be ...

Glintech integrates Asterisk, Jabber for open source UC platform

A week or so ago, my boss came to me asking if I could write something on what'd I'd done internally with XMPP and Asterisk for someone he knew at Computerworld. I was only too happy to have someone listen to my ramblings, so I wrote up some replies to some of the questions his friend had asked.Last night my boss sent me a link to the article. Unfortunately, the article makes it look like he was the one who replied to the questions instead of me, but it's nice to get some of my work out there an...

Asterisk Bootcamp

Just a quick post to mention that I'm heading to Melbourne next month for the Asterisk Bootcamp (care of work). Should be a good opportunity to learn a lot of info about Asterisk and VoIP in general.