The default wp-mail.php file doesnt support attached images or files, at least in the v2.0 R133 version of WordPress I’m using now. It takes a bit of work, but it is possible! Heres how…

Strange how Metacrawler is almost unheard of these days. Before Google, this used to be my favorite web search tool.

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I’ve been keeping notes while I am setting up WordPress. What I really want is to be able to post by email from my phone. Its been difficult, but it looks like its just about starting to work. The hard part was getting a mail plugin to work with WordPress v2.0.

I’ve been keeping notes while setting up WordPress on my PC at home. What I really want is to be able to moblog – post articles from my phone. Its been difficult, but it looks like its just about starting to work. The hard part is getting the Postie mail plugin to work with WordPress [...]

Below are four (4) questions and a bonus question. You have to answer them instantly. You can’t take your time, answer all of them immediately. OK? Let’s find out just how clever you really are…

fwdOut shows how to configure your Asterisk PBX to allow calls to PSTN phones via other Asterisk servers who have agreed to share their PSTN connections. IN return, you have to make your PSTN connection available for other users to call your local area. You get credit when someone uses your access point, this allows [...]

I downloaded Asterisk@Home from http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net Note, in 2006 Asterisk@Home was renamed to trixbox Its a large download, so allow plently of time if you have a slow Internet connection. You can install it on an old PC, or use a virtual machine. I have VMware, but you could also use the free VMWare Player and QEMU, or [...]

There are a couple of ways to try Asterisk The easiest is to download an ISO of a live Linux CD with Asterisk from AstLinux at http://www.astlinux.org Burn the ISO to CD-R (or compact flash) and reboot and you’ll have a working Asterisk system. You’ll need a USB or flash card to save your configuration, [...]

Itoh-san was the first to tell me about the open-source PBX system called Asterisk. His company at the time was seriously thinking about changing from their existing Cisco IP phone network to Asterisk. Asterisk 1.2 released on Nov 17 2005. Available from http://www.asterisk.org/  

This article shows how to run Asterisk on Windows by using the free VMware Player and QEMU emulator with the Asterisk@Home ISO (500Mb ) http://voipspeak.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=28 Btw you can download OS images preinstalled with a couple of applications for QEMU from http://www.oszoo.org/

If you have two softphones that you want to receive calls from the internet, set the ports as below then set your router to forward to each phone. X-Lite 1: Listen SIP Port: 5060 Listen RTP Port: 8000 Forward port 5060 to this PC. X-Lite 2: Listen SIP Port: 5061 Listen RTP Port: 8006 Forward [...]

If your PC has speakers and a microphone, you can make phone calls by downloading a soft phone. Or you could replace your microphone with a USB phone, a phone that plugs into your PCs USB port. Download software phones from SJLabs at http://www.sjlabs.com/sjp.html There are packages for Telephony providers such as Vonage, VoiceGlo, Free [...]

The main Asterisk website, put together by the web developers at Digium http://www.asterisk.org/ Astrisk documentation project http://www.asteriskdocs.org http://www.asteriskguru.com A wiki about all things VOIP http://www.voip-info.org VOIPSpeak has news and articles all about VOIP, including useful articles on step-by-step configuration of Asterisk@Home and building your own PBX http://voipspeak.net Digium provides hardware for connecting phones and phone [...]

fwdOut shows how to configure your Asterisk PBX to allow calls to PSTN phones via other Asterisk servers who have agreed to share their PSTN connections. InN return, you have to make your PSTN connection available for other users to call your local area. You get credit when someone uses your access point, this allows [...]

Some interesting new development tools and platforms are available these days. Microsoft is providing beta versions of its Visual Studio 2005 Mono is an open source IDE for developing .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. from http://www.mono-project.com/ Grasshopper is a Visual Studio .NET plug-in which enables you [...]

When email limits the size of files you want to send to someone, try one of these file transfer websites. http://www.filesend.to 5 files, 100MB, 5 downloads, 3 days retention http://okurin.bitpark.co.jp/ 250MB, 10 downloads, 5 days retention www.filebank.co.jp 10 files, 100MB, 5 downloads, 3days retention www.fileocool.com 100MB per file, 5 downloads, 7 days retention www.datadeliver.net 10 [...]

Database Journal shows how to open a web page from inside MSAccess. Public Function UpdateOrderInfoWebSite() As Long On Error Resume Next Dim objDoc As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer Dim sURL As String Dim lOrderID As Long lOrderID = Forms!frmOrder!txtOrderID Const cURL As String =”http://localhost/Orders/Process.asp” sURL = cURL & “?ID=” & lOrderID sURL = sURL & “&SDate =” & [...]

My favorite method for executing SQL, be it saved queries or raw SQL, is the Execute method of the Database object. You can execute a statement with a single line, like this: <br /> CurrentDb.Execute &#8220;UPDATE titles SET price = price * 1.10&#8243;<br /> In this case, CurrentDB references the currently open database. Alternatively, you [...]

During WinXP installation, if you try to access a network share at T-12 then you get a “Workstation is not running” error. Starting the workstation service manually with net start workstation reports the service is already running. The the issue is that microsoft left out some info in the system hive so you need to [...]