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Chats and Forums RSS FeedsMicrosoft Unified Communications Tips and Tricks - Now that OCS 2007 R2 has RTM (released to manufacturing), I thought I'd share Microsoft's brand new Unified Communications Tips and Tricks Flashcards for End-Users which includes some cool tips for their Office Communications Server 2007 platform. The image above is a sample. The slide deck is specific to OCS 2007 and not OCS 2007 R2. However, there is lots of feature overlap, so I'm sure they're still useful for the early birds using OCS 2007 R2 and those still using OCS 2007 of course. Microsoft told me that flashcards for R2 will be available after R2 ships. The 54 slides are a very nice overview on how to use...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Truphone Adds Skype Features, Twitter, MSN Messenger, and more - Truphone has added a new Skype feature that will allow iPhone and iPod Touch users to make calls and instant message other Skype users. This new feature is scheduled to go live to consumers the week of Jan. 12, but it's available for a select few media that inquire. I'm going to try it very shortly. You now will have the ability to make and receive Skype calls and instant message Skype users from your iPhone or iPod touch. Truphone customers on both ... Related Entries with Images & Recent Assets Linked to Entries - Movable Type bloggers ? related entries template recipes and I've come up with what I think is one of the best ones out here. Further, Movable Type bloggers using version MT 4+ with its built-in Asset Management have also been clamoring for the ability to display not just Recent Assets (images in this case) but Recent Assets hyperlinked to the actual Entry where the image was used. I've come up with such a method, so read on By default, Movable Type's Recent Assets widget simply links to the image location and not the context of where the image was used. Of course, an image asset can be used multiple times in multiple blog entries, so my template recipe ... Hard Drives Slow Down With Loud Background Noise - Apparently, disk drives are more sensitive to minor vibrations than previously thought. A blog post by Sun Microsystems engineer Brendan Gregg called "Unusual disk latency" discovered unusually high disk I/O latency during a streaming write test. He explains how disk drives latency can shoot up dramatically when someone shouts at them making them perform more slowly. Yes, that's right, he can make his hard drives slow down simply by screaming at them. We've all been there, screaming at our PCs or Macs, i.e. "Curses you for crashing in the middle of my email... Apple Large screen iPod Touch in Future Plus Skype & Apple Partnership? - According to Techcrunch, we can soon expect to see a 7" or 9" iPod touch, which would make it more akin to a tablet PC than a portable music & video player with app support. The app support is a key point here. One of the problems with the iPod touch and similarly the iPhone is the relatively small screen. Sure, it's bigger than most portable devices, but it's still not quite large enough for optimal productivity. By stepping up the screen size, not only will it improve productivity, you may even see users actually "work" within business apps such as Excel on the iPod touch. Try working in Excel on the iPod touch or iPhone on such a small scree... Broadsoft Acquires Rival Sylantro - In what could portend several acquisitions in the VoIP space, Broadsoft has acquired rival competitor Sylantro Systems, both makers of softswitches and both heavily involved in carrier infrastructure, IMS, and converged services. TMCnet's Greg Galitzine has the full details on the acquisition.With the global slowing economy, even the VoIP industry which has had exponential growth over the last 13 years, is being affected by the global downturn. No doubt we will see more consolidation within the VoIP space and likely a few bankruptcies as well.I for one can't believe it's been 13 years... trixbox CE vs. Asterisk Downloads - As you may have read, Digium announced a sharp rise in Asterisk downloads for 2008 registering in a whopping 1.5 million downloads for 2008. That got me thinking just how does Asterisk & AsteriskNOW compare with Fonality's trixbox CE distro? Arguably trixbox CE is the either the #1 or the #2 downloaded Asterisk-based distribution. But are they #1 or #2? Let the Fonality vs. Digium download battle commence First, we head to Sourceforge, which ... Blu-ray Defies Recession with Christmas Sales Exceeding DVD - More proof that my prediction of a Blu-ray Christmas is coming true According to the Blu-ray Disc Association, British consumers bought 462,500 Blu-ray discs in November, an increase of 165% from October. They put out a release with a very positive title that proudly claims, "Blu-ray Beats Recession Blues Sales Soar in Lead Up to Christmas at Even Quicker Rate than DVD". Like I said in my pro- Blu-ray prediction, "I thin... The State of Nortel - Rich has an excellent piece on Nortel where he talks to Nortel's President of Carrier Networks' Richard Lowe and Bruce Gustafson, Director of Marcom, Carrier Networks. With all the bad news surrounding Nortel it's interesting to get a perspective of Nortel from the horse's mouth. Of course, Nortel's job or any company for that matter is to try and spin things in a positive light. However, reading the a... Flash Skype Video cards = Flash Skype Client in the Near Future? - This morning I was playing with the new video e-card creation tool from Skype, which is just in time for Christmas, Hanukkah and the rest of the holidays. It's called Video cards with Skype (http://www.skypevideocards.com). Facebook fans can easily embed/send the cards to your Facebook friends instantly or use the "Video cards with Skype" Facebook app (http://apps.facebook.com/videocardswithskype). The new skypevideocards.com is a no-download Flash-based video creation tool that lets you embed videos or email them to friends/famil... Verizon FiOS Voice+Internet Cheaper than just FiOS Internet? - I had to do a double-take when I read the Verizon FiOS pricing plans page that shows Verizon FiOS Internet with Verizon home phone service is less expensive than FiOS Internet without Verizon home phone service. It's $5 cheaper per month to have the voice service than without? I don't think I've ever seen any double or triple play offering that actually is cheaper when you have an additional "leg" offering in the package. Here, see for yourself from this screenshot from their ... Belkin Desktop Internet Phone for Skype - I was doing some Christmas shopping on Amazon when I was curious what sort of VoIP phones were available on Amazon. I came across the Belkin Desktop Internet Phone for Skype, which I never heard of. The Belkin Desktop Internet Phone for Skype is a standalone Skype phone with ... Toshiba 512GB Solid State Drive - Toshiba announced that it will showcase a 512GB solid-state drive (SSD) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next month, with shipments of this large SSD in the second quarter of 2009. These NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) will be the industry's first 2.5-inch 512-gigabyte SSD and features fast read/write times and reliable performance for laptops/notebooks, and other equipment. In addition to the 2.5-inch, 512GB drive, the 43nm NAND SSD family also includes capacities of 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB, offered in 1.8-inch or 2.5-inch drive enclosures or as SSD Flash Modules. The drives feature a maximum ... Christmas Blu-ray player + Netflix = A Very Blue Christmas - I have a Blu-ray player on my Christmas list that I hope to get. Santa Claus hasn't failed me yet. I also have a subscription to Netflix and planned on upgrading it to the Blu-ray package for an additional $1/month should I stay off Santa's "naughty list" this year. This would give me access to Netflix's massive Blu-ray ... CNET - Where's the ? love? - I love CNET, it's one of my favorite technology, electronics, and gadgets sites. But I'm just not feeling the love. You see, I wrote a quick review of the just launched GizmoCall Flash-based VoIP service this morning. A few hours later, see in my RSS alerts another article on GizmoCall. Naturally, I want to see other people's opinions on it, so I click through and see that it's a CNET article. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10124311-94.html) The CNET article had very similar sentiments to my own and performed the same test... BlackBerry OS Running On Windows Mobile HTC Touch Pro - From the "Oh no you didn't!" department, BerryReview.com has an article and some sweet photo goodness showing a Windows Mobile HTC Touch Pro running a virtual BlackBerry operating system. The Windows Mobile OS running the BlackBerry OS? What's next, the iPhone running Windows Mobile? Soon there will be human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together mass hysteria! The BlackBerry OS runs as an application on Windows Mobile allowing you to run your favorite BlackBerr... GizmoCall Another Flash VoIP Player - GizmoCall, a Flash-based, no download, cross operating system VoIP app launched on Monday. GizmoCall isn't the first to offer a Flash-based VoIP client. I believe the first Flash-based VoIP app was Flashphone, which I discovered last year. I also found a Flash-based app that not only did VoIP, but it did SIP-based video as well.In any event, I decided to give GizmoCall a go. Registering was easy and was done from within the Flash application. Simple entering a username, password, e... The Pirate Bay Offline for Christmas? - Interesting message on The Pirate Bay today. At first I thought maybe the FBI, Interpol, or some other law enforcement entity took them offline. Or perhaps the plethora of Christmas downloaders had knocked them offline. Though, I'm not sure giving a gift of pirated music or movies burned to a CD/DVD is exactly the type of Christmas spirit that Jesus would approve of. See Commandment "Thou shall not steal."I was getting an authentication window popup asking for username and password. The initial message said something about "Forbidden Planet". Now I see this message below that says "A username a... TMC & Digium Announce Educational program for Digium|Asterisk World - Some good news from my company TMC and Digium, the founder of Asterisk that I thought I'd share. If you're an Asterisk fan, you need to be at Asterisk World, which is co-located with the #1 VoIP tradeshow in the U.S., namely TMC's ITEXPO.Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) and Digium, the Asterisk Company, today announced the educational program for Digium|Asterisk World, scheduled to take place February 2-4, 2009 in Miami. The event is collocated with TMC's ITEXPO East 2009.TMC and Digium also announced that although the conference content and exhibiting opportunities are more than 90 percent complete, additional opportunities remain for interested Digium partners... ADTRAN Launches n-Command MSP - Remote VoIP Management Network Tool - Interesting new product from from ADTRAN whose aim is to simplify remote management of VoIP networks with their n-Command MSP. It sounds very similar to NetQoS Unified Communications Monitor 2.0 I wrote about last month, except NetQoS UC Monitor 2.0 is designed for Cisco UC and Microsoft OCS environments, while the ADTRAN offering seems targeted exclusively to managing ADTRAN NetVanta or Total Access converged networking solutions. One of its core features is centralized collection and reporting ... Nortel Web.Alive = Second Life for Business - Rich Tehrani has a very interesting post about Nortel's foray into virtualized business meetings. Think Second Life virtual world meets business world Rich participated in a virtual world demo with Nortel where they showed him web.alive. This business-oriented virtual world looks eerily similar to Second Life, including the 3D avatars, and 3D world but under the covers it sports something else - namely 3D audio powered by ... Remote Desktop Dual Monitor Support tip - You're probably wondering if there is dual monitor support for Remote Desktop Connection. There is indeed, but there are some caveats and issues you should be aware of, as well as some solutions to these issues. First, as of Microsoft Remote Desktop client version 6.0, support was added for spanning across multiple monitors. Only some configurations are supported by Remote Desktop client in span mode. According to the Remote Desktop help file Remote Desktop Connection supports high-resolution displays that can be spanned across multiple monitors. The monitors must be the same height and al... Grandstream GXV3005 Video Phone - Grandstream just announced the GXV3005 IP video phone is coming this month. The GXV3005 features an additional FXO port and is part of the GXV3000 IP video product line series.The GXV3005 features the same design and all of the functionality as the GXV3000 model, but it comes with the advanced versatility of an FXO PSTN line port, which enables customers to receive both video telephony service over an IP network and their home land-line. One thing I like about Grandsteam is they follow industry standards, such as SIP, but also H.263 & H.264, so in theory their video phone will work with other H.263/H.264 compl... Scientists develop software that can 'Draw' your Dreams - Scientists have developed software that can 'draw' your dreams by reading your mind. Your dreams have now been unlocked with the invention of technology capable of illustrating images taken directly from human brains during sleep.According to Telgraph.co.uk: A team of Japanese scientists have created a device that enables the processing and imaging of thoughts and dreams as experienced in the brain to appear on a computer screen.While researchers have so far only created technology that can reproduce simple images from the bra... Skype 4.0 beta 3 released - Skype has been striving to improve the usability of Skype and give more prominence to other features such as video by rearranging Skype's interface in version 4.0. They also have improved conversation management. Today, Skype released Skype 4.0 beta 3 for Windows.
So what's new in Skype 4.0 beta 3? New is this version, is an abuse reporting feature, which will give you the option to report any users you are blocking to Skype. According to Skype, "Under the hood we have also added a bandwidth manager which will enable better call quality."
They also have also brought back the Call Quality feedback area, Outlook Contacts and full History. They've added full History features, as promised when we launched Beta... Free snom Flexor CTI for Outlook Application offers Advanced Telephony Features - snom and Camrivox today announced free VoIP telephony integration with Microsoft Outlook with snom Flexor CTI software for Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Outlook is the most widely used contact manager with a market share of over 60% of email users. A free CTI app for snom's VoIP phones? I remember the days where you had to pay thousands of dollara for a CTI server. No CTI server required for this app nor the thousands of dollars!The highlights of this integration are: On-screen Click-to-... Copy Paste Comes to the iPhone - Pastebud is a cool new service launching tomorrow that leverages javascript, web services, and bookmarks in mobile Safari to finally bring copy and paste to the iPhone and iPod touch. Thank the heavens! It's about time. What was Steve Jobs thinking when he didn't put copy/paste into the iPhone? Why Steve Jobs crippled the Jesus phone is beyond me. Further, I believe some third party copy/paste apps were banned in the Apple App Store. Well rejoice iPhone users, your savior just may have arrived.Gizmodo ... WordPress 2.7 released - WordPress 2.7 "Coltrane" was just released featuring some pretty cool upgrades in features. First, it sports a drag-and-drop interface for redesigning the layout of your WordPress blog/website. Second, it automatically updates core WordPress files and your plugins (if you so choose). Heck, you can even have it set to download beta nightlies. According to WordPress "Matt": "this may be the last time you ever have to manually upgrade WordPress again. We heard how tired you were of doing upgrades for yourself and your friends, so now WordPress includes a built-in upgrade that will automatically notify you of new releases, and when you're ready it will download them, install them, and upgrade your blog with a single click." ... Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard - Logitech today introduced what they deem a "Game-Changing Gameboard" called the Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard. Hyperbole aside, the Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard is an interesting concept. It sports a naturally contoured design, on-board memory, customizable backlighting, and programmable keys. A keyboard with memory? What's next? A keyboard which is a full-fledged PC? Oh wait, that's been done.Anyway, the Logitech G13 advanced gameboard is a hybrid gaming keyboard designed to complement your Logitech keyboard and mouse. It gives you 25 programmable keys and an analog stick, as well and three game modes to help the PWN factor against your gaming buddies... Truphone brings low-cost calling to iPhone over Wi-Fi & now 3G - Truphone is now bringing low-priced international calls to the iPhone even when not connected to Wi-Fi. In case you don't recall, Steve Jobs will only allow VoIP over Wi-Fi and not over a 3G data connection. So has Truphone enabled VoIP over a 3G connection for the Apple iPhone? Not quite. It's a callback system similar to Jajah that uses the 3G voice bearer ch... Re: Link to Open Source Books is gone - open source books are under the additional collections section of the text collection.
hope this helps! ... Re: Link to Open Source Books is gone - For some reason it's here now:
http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio
I saw it the other day if you click the link it's still under the text parent once you get there I would bookmark ... Link to Open Source Books is gone - The link to Open Source Books appears to have disappeared from the Texts page.
Is this a bug or is that archive going to be dropped? ... microsoft ts and cs - Hi,
When Microsoft stopped their scanning program the 'no commercial use' clauses stayed on their scans in the archive. The only statement I can find that this no longer applies is the phrase 'We are ... Re: its agaist the law to distrubute spam and porn in the USA - "its agaist the law to distrubute spam and porn in the USA"
What law is that?
(I assume you meant "against" and "distribute")
"I have already a few times over the last two years warned you people an ... Re: text achive is tended by humans - " people who MUST have instantaneous RSS "???
That is a ridiculous thought.
It looks like the biggest source of spam here is you.
Aren't you the one in NZ?
I'm sure our Justice Department is lo ... Re: The mythology of all races - I've seen a request system called "Scan-on-Demand", although it's limited to books in the Boston Public Library and I've never tried it.
http://openlibrary.org/bpl
Probably the best way is to searc ... The mythology of all races - This is a very good project in 13 volumes. In the internet archieve I have seen volume number 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, but it seems they didn't upload the others, particularly volume 5. So I was won ... Re: Isn't selling Valium w/o a perscription against the law - Not that I'm hating on valium or anything, I'm sure it has many positive benefits, when administered by people who know what they are doing, and who obtain the drugs from a respectable pharmaceutical . ... Re: Isn't selling Valium w/o a perscription against the law - Once again the pharmaceutical spam is back
http://www.archive.org/details/BuyValiumBuyValiumOnlineWithoutPrescriptionPurchaseValiumCod
Would the admins please find a way to stop people attempting to ... Re: i wanna see more loeb classical books - If you do some checking about 60% are in the public domain. ... Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas form Central Texas all! If you are thinking of the perfect gift, I think that deleting this
http://www.archive.org/details/OrderXanaxNoPrescriptionBuyOrderXanaxOnlineCheapXanaxNoPres ... A little request to Duke and Boston Col - Could one of you please find it in your heart to upload:
Full report of the proceedings of the International Workers' Congress, London, July and August, 1896
http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/219247 ... Re: A little request to Duke and Boston Col - dudeman,
I work for a library consortium,. let me see how fast I can get it.
Gerry
... Re: Merry Christmas - You know what I would really like for Christmas
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=216617
... Re: Merry Christmas - dudeman,
Think about the positive aspects of this item. Since it is now open source, restrictive copyrights can no longer be placed on this type of crap. My only concern is that there should be a col ... Re: i wanna see more loeb classical books - Just couldn't resist. Everytime some one says "I want something really bad", that line from Austin Powers pops into my head. ... Re: i wanna see more loeb classical books - u r so funny , and st..p..d, sir.
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=heinemann%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts&sort=-publicdate&page=2 ... Re: i wanna see more loeb classical books - "And I vanna toilet made out of solid gold, but it just isn't in the cards now, is it?"
Actually, if any were published pre-1922, or are in public domain for another reason, it would be a great addit ... Re: Uploading a scanned book - I am a newbie, is there any document which explains about my above question? Thanks. - goodwin ... Uploading a scanned book - I have a book of 1900s, and I would like to upload it here. In which format should I upload it, so that the pdf, flip book, Full Text are also generated as in http://www.archive.org/details/birdbookil ... Searchable PDF for a Scanned book - Dear all,
I uploaded a pdf containing images of scanned pages of a book. And later using the Metadata editor, I changed the format from "pdf" to "Image Container PDF". But strangely I see no changes ... i wanna see more loeb classical books - pls! ... Re: Jehovas Witness texts - We also have the Exclusive Brethren in NZ, a mate of mine used to work for them, their religion stops them using computer stuff, my mate had to go to another company to make use of fax in and out. how ... Re: Jehovas Witness texts - Actually some of what the JWs have to say is kinda interesting. Unlike other Christian sects, they don't believe in an afterlife. They don't participate in politics or the state in any way (juries, mi ... Re: Jehovas Witness texts - I disagree with what the JW say, and I don't like for profit spam, or porn or gambling coming from others.
BUT no way can I agree with JW stuff not being allowed on the Archive, because that's what t ... Re: Jehovas Witness texts - duedman,
I think any of these groups should be encouraged to put all of their materials up, especially under the Creative Commons License. Eventually we will have enough materials up so that it may s ... Re: Jehovas Witness texts - I disagree with Jehovas Witnesses but yeah, at least their propaganda can have cultural value and/or historic value in the future. People 100 years from now will find those documents facinating. I hop ... Jehovas Witness texts - It seems the JWs have discovered archive.org! Knowing them, this will likely mean a steady stream of scanned material and lengthy metadata adding a large amount of material to this site.
Actually, I ... Re: Copyright Question - "Nothing before 1911 is still in copyright in the U.K"
Can you explain me this affirmation?
Is very important for me.
Thanks. ... Re: text achive is tended by humans - I am not expecting a 24/7 response at all, I am suggesting that the Archive look at adapting spam type filters
I am suggesting that the Archive stop bots from signing up. I am suggesting that new mem ... Re: text achive is tended by humans - From the timing of your post, I gather you were reacting to a larger than normal spam attack, that was launched after midnight on a Sunday PST (where IA is located). I'm taken aback if you expect a 24 ... Re: How do I take raw jpgs and make a djvu file? - Uncanny! I was just going to ask this. I'd also like to know if there are the necessary tools for Linux (or, at a pinch, Mac) to do this with. Too many books (especially unwieldy, big ones) are availa ... Re: text achive is breaking the USA laws. - Thanks for making trouble and wasting the time of this small non-profit mostly volunteer run organization (disclaimer: I don't work there).
Based on the litigious tone and information in your post n ... text achive is breaking the USA laws. -
text archive is breaking the USA laws.
The text archive is, I believe, breaking the USA laws, knowingly aiding spammers, by allowing its servers to be used for distributing illegal spam world wide.
... How do I take raw jpgs and make a djvu file? - I'm interested in taking some of the raw jpg files in some of the books (basically color plates and their descriptions) and building my own text searchable djvu file from them.
Does anyone know of th ... Re: Duplicate files/books? - You point to an important point, but, unfortunately, there is no way for the Archive to incorporate corrected OCR into its book files. It is a problem we will solve in the future, but currently it can ... Re: Duplicate files/books? - Thanks for answering. I have another concept of "quality" and think useless maintain a file of very bad quality when a good one is present. Of course the good one can (or must) be ameliorated. Another ... Re: Duplicate files/books? - Well, I think the idea with Internet Archive is that when users such as yourself create something new (such as a corrected OCR text) you can upload it to Internet Archive. Just upload the new text and ... Re: Duplicate files/books? - Hallo! I've just joined. Perhaps I duplicate a question :) If so, sorry. Some weeks ago I DL this text from Googlebooks: http://www.archive.org/details/sullestradeferr00blasgoog.
And insert the text i ... Re: Duplicate files/books? - Can you give an example book your trying to search for duplicates?
Gutenberg and Google books are uploaded here. There appear to be over half a million Google scans, and I suppose all of Gutenberg (I ... Duplicate files/books? - I'm wondering what the best method for searching out duplicates is. I would like to submit some pdfs I made of old, out of print Chinese books on TaiChi. I'm not sure how to search for items that have ... Re: Flip Book Format -
we would like you to upload your PDF's to the archive. We are working to expand our PDF deriver so that any pdf uploaded will be able to be a flip book (and embeddable).
Please upload!
-brewster
... Re: does google books oust other pdfs? - To get all the Henry James related books (minus Google and Gutenberg) you would need this search:
mediatype:(texts) -scanner:google -contributor:gutenberg AND (subject:"James, Henry 1843-1916" OR cre ... Re: does google books oust other pdfs? - I should have also said, that the above method of searching excludes the Google books leaving only the 'native' books and collections.
I am too hasty with the 'submit post' button these days ... Re: does google books oust other pdfs? - Oh! Sorry, I never answered that part
No, no - all the books that were here before the Google Books were uploaded are all still there. It's just the amount of Google Books (previously there were a ... Re: does google books oust other pdfs? - Many thanks. I'd never have thought of this, but it works.
But it is true that the previous scans seem to have disappeared, haven't they? ... Re: does google books oust other pdfs? - Here's a book of Henry James' letters from Google:
http://www.archive.org/details/lettershenryjam02jamegoog
You're correct, when you use the PDF link it takes you to Google. This is probably intended ... does google books oust other pdfs? - A while ago, when I searched for works of classic authors, I found pfd versions of scans of (I assume) out of copyright editions. Now, almost all I find when I search e.g. Henry James or Joseph Conrad ... Re: Full-Text Search the Texts Archive with Google - openlibrary.org also provides full-text search to the 1 Million+ books on archive.org
http://openlibrary.org/advanced
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