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Incredible PBX 2026 for Raspberry Pi
If you’ve been away from the Raspberry Pi world awhile, welcome to the club. We began with the $35 Raspberry Pi when Eben Upton was literally making house calls. We got to meet Eben and his wife when he visited Charleston early on. But WOW have things changed. The Raspberry Pi 5…
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eSIMs: The 2026 Answer to the Burner Phone
Remember when all the bad guys purchased burner phones to disguise all their transactions. Well, there’s good news. Now they can use their modern cellphone and add a “Burner eSIM” for those pesky criminal activities. But there’s a silver lining for those of us that don’t traffic…
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Introducing the $45 Cellular Trifecta
As you might imagine, we spend an inordinate amount of time wrestling with current cellphone offerings to find the best and the least costly options for the Nerd Vittles Fan Club. Today we’ll tackle a new wrinkle that should be especially enticing for those that frequently…
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Introducing Incredible PBX 2026 for Debian 13
Today marks the one-week anniversary of Debian “trixie” 13.5 bringing critical security patches and some minor stability updates to this new operating system. It also addresses a major Linux kernel privilege escalation flaw (CVE-2026-46333) affecting default installs of Debian…
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DAP’s Little Secrets: Not Your Daddy’s Music Player
What a difference a couple decades make from the original iPod to today’s Digital Audio Players. What was once a personal MP3 player is now a full-fledged Android device with functionality that was never once envisioned. Imagine a device for $50 that can not only play your tunes…
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Traveling Gypsies: Road Warrior Tips for Taming the Internet
Truth be told, our family is pretty much always on the go. I-95 and I-26 are our constant companions. So it’s no secret that internet connectivity is important to us. While traveling, my wife does volunteer work with a non-profit organization that requires her to work in the car…
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Icing on the Cake: Meet FS PBX — It’s FusionPBX on Steroids
In our previous article, we sang the praises of FusionPBX as the terrific GUI that was always missing from FreeSWITCH. Little did we know that a better mousetrap was hiding just behind the curtain. And today we introduce the third layer to our 3-Layer Cake, FS PBX. Some might…
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A New Adventure: Introducing FusionPBX… again
It’s been almost seven years since we first looked at FusionPBX and FreeSwitch. So we’ve spent the last couple months taking a fresh look at the platform and WOW! What a difference seven years make. We will hasten to add that FusionPBX is not a platform for folks that are new to…
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Introducing Incredible PBX 2025 with Asterisk 22 and FreePBX 17
We’re two weeks late, but here’s a belated Happy New Year 2025 with an all-new Incredible PBX release. And we’re two days early celebrating the 20th birthday of Nerd Vittles. The good news is the hits keep coming thanks again to the yeoman’s work of Joe McConnaughey, aka…
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Incredible VMware Deal: Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro Free for Personal Use
In case you missed it, Broadcom purchased VMware® from Dell in late 2023 for $61 billion. While pricing for commercial licenses went up, the good news for hobbyists is that Broadcom immediately rebranded VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro for Macs as free offerings for…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 from Asterisk® can be traced directly to the proliferation of cell phones coupled with the expansion of Zoom and Microsoft Teams…
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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…
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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…
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Virtualization Trifecta: $500 Buys a Perfect Hosting Platform
We’ve been raving about Zorin OS 16 last 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…
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Faxing & New VPN Return for Incredible PBX 2027 Platforms
As you may know, the introduction of Rocky 8, Debian 11, Ubuntu 22.04, and PHP 7.4 blew our HylaFax/AvantFax/IAXmodem faxing solution out of the water leaving all of the Incredible PBX 2027 builds with no fax capabilities. With some tips from our long-time contributor, Bill…
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What A 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…