I had no idea how to describe Twilio, so “phone app proxy service” was the best I could come up with. It’s probably nowhere close, so let me explain what Twilio does.
Register for a Twilio account, and you’ll get a phone number. People calling in to your phone number will trigger Twilio’s server [...]

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This is an example of the audiblab system for recording and embedding your voice messages.
Visit audiblab.com to try it out yourself…

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I put up an interview with Joe Brinkman of the DotNetNuke project over at http://www.webdevradio.com. Grahame helped me clean up the audio (well, did some detective work really). About 15 seconds in to the interview (after I’d already done a sanity sound check) a distinct hum came in to the audio, and was [...]

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I’ve not seen any signs we’re quite there yet, though searching for “ical/ics” and “rss enclosure” does bring up some interesting ideas. In short, what I am hoping to see is something like the following:
When I’m authoring a blog entry, I can add specific event information (date/time/location/etc) which gets added to the RSS feed [...]

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Alfred’s a friend from a way back in Michigan (well, perhaps just a few years ago) who’s also in to open source technology, and overall a sharp guy.  He interviewed me for a podcast he produces, and it’s finally ‘up’ for listening.  We chatted some time ago – September I think, so I’d nearly forgotten [...]

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My last name starts with a K, so whenever I’ve spelled out my name for people on the phone I’ve said “K, as in ‘knife’”. I’ve done this for years, almost without thinking. I was initially inspired by Inspector Clouseau in the first Pink Panther movie, where he was spelling something with a [...]

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Using Linux is, at different times, both frustrating and freeing. My experiences over the years switching between OSX, Windows and Linux have been numerous, and I still tend to find myself coming back to Linux. It’s often because much of the work I do ends up running on LAMP based servers, so running [...]

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