Tjardick’s weblog

It’s that time again, that i got the itch for a new mobile phone. I think apart from my nokia 9110, my current blackberry 7290 is the phone that i have carried with me the longest.

I have switched a while to an IPAQ 6515 mobile messenge but it just didn’t do the job, specially with the windows mobile locking up the phone 3 times a day, the love for that phone faded quite quickly.

I at least want to have, mobile data (gprs minimum), email (blackberry connect preffered), WiFi while @home or @office and with that SIP VoIP.

It looks like i should be aiming at the nokia E61i, but would like some alternative suggestions if you have any.

So i had to transfer this 300mb file to Dean the other day. Not really something you want to send out by mail. So when looking around i quickly run into Pando. I must say it was easy to use and did the job very well, specially the fact that i didn’t have to be online the same time as Dean to get it all send over. So all in all a nice tool to keep an eye out for.

It’s been a while since i’ve updated my blog but i’m determined to get it back up and going again, bare with me while i move my data over from moveable Type to wordpress and get some decent pages setup…

Ok i’ve just cleaned out by blog with spam pings
So no more pings on my blog for now until there is a solution against this ?

Mail me if you know one please.

I know some of you have been waiting for the next step from VoIP User, well here it is….

Again it’s been a while but we’ve been busy, very busy, launching our new service.

I’ll try to explain it shortly here but for the full article just visit our forum post on free VoIP/PSTN termination.

When we did our number control panel where people could get free UK PSTN numbers to be forwarded to any SIP/IAX address or different landline destinations all over the world, we used part of the income on the numbers to finance the service, but we also saved up the revenue into one big community ‘pot’. This pot will now be given out to our users to make outbound calls.

Main purpose of this is for people to try VoIP freely without any obligations.

Of course we had to implement some limitation as to avoid abuse. That’s why we’ve chosen to make available only destinations that are <2.5p. This accounts for most landlines in Europe, USA & Canada, but a full list of possible destinations will be published on a later date.

Further more there will be monitoring based on income generated by users, i.e. people using our UK inbound numbers v.s. money spent on the outbound. Abuser will be lose their outbound access if we feel this is necessary to prevent abuse.

As I stated before this is a free community service which is relaying on community members them selves to support this service. Dean and I don’t get any income generated from the numbers on the website, so this service needs to be self supporting else if it runs dry no-one will have access anymore.

We hope everyone will contribute his/her part to be able to make this service worthwhile running.

And before i forget a happy new year to you all and all the best for 2005.

Also when next doing your (online) banking, please don’t forget all the people in Asia that have currently lost basically their whole lives. Any contribution how little it may be does matter.

Tjardick

The VPT1000 Skype Portable IP-Phone was specially developed for the 11+ million users of Skype’s proprietary free calling network giving them the ability to place and receive calls with a real hard phone instead of using a computer based dialer, microphone and speakers. The product also gives Skype users the ability to seamlessly place and receive calls via over 30+ traditional SIP based networks including the ability to receive calls from regular landline phones.
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ok as i’m currently not only blogging at the speed of a blog entry a month i must admit i was also seriously behind on reading up on the blogs i usually follow so closely.

When reading up on things i found this entry from Jeff Pulver from the 9th of september about the LibreTel port of call service. I guess Jeff hasn’t been to our website in a long time as VoIPuser has allready been offering a service like this for UK numbers since the beginning of may.

VoIPuser is taking the kickback charges we receive for terminating the call, to pay for the forwarding of the call to landlines in selective countries all over the world or to any SIP or IAX2 destination. This makes this service totally free for the end-user that requests a UK number, not to forget that users can change their number forwarding when ever they like. Now that is what i call disruptive…

Last week VOIPuser has gone in to public beta.

The website currently offers UK phonenumbers which you can point yourself to any landline destination in a number of countries or, and this is even better, point it to your Voice Over IP SIP phone account (at any sip provider).

As with any beta, errors might occur, but please let us know in the forum if it works for you. Also if it doesn’t please let us know so we can look into fixing it.

Ok, i must stop using being busy as an excuse for not blogging.

Maybe i should take a couple of minutes at the end of each day to see if i can add something to the blog? How are you keeping your blog up-to-date, please share your secrets with me !!

Got an invitation to join the Groove Beta of version 3 yesterday. I installed it on a seperate machine as adviced (an older and slower one) and to my surprise this version of groove is WAY faster then the V2.5. even though it was running at a lower spec machine then my laptop is.

Also the LaunchPad (an MSN like contact window) to keep track of online contacts and status of the workspaces is a very welcome add-on.

So all in all i’ll be one of the first to…
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