Musings of Tom Friedhof

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• Polycom 501 Contact Directory

  November 15, 2007

  I finally found the format of the directory.xml file for my Polycom 501 IP phone after searching the web for about a half hour looking for it. Where better place to keep the format than in the Polycom Admin Guide.  I found an entry on voip-info.org, but it didn't mention all the XML elements I could use. So being the curious guy that I am, I had to know all the options available to me.

• Getting ready for BADCAMP

  November 2, 2007

  Well I just arrived here in Berkeley after about 7 hours in the car with my wife and two toddlers. We bought portable DVD screens that mount on the back of the front passenger head restraints before we started our journey. The screens worked great for the first six hours of the trip, but the last hour on the road was a little crazy with my son. Luckily he fell asleep about 10 minutes after I turned off the screens.

• OmniFocus and the power of AppleScript

  October 29, 2007

  If you've heard of GTD and you're an a mac, than you've probably heard of OmniFocus by OmniGroup. I've been using the Sneaky Peak of OmniFocus for quite some time now since I switched from iGTD after a couple weeks of use in that program. I must say that I've really enjoyed using OF. It just has that macness quality to it where it looks good and works even better.

• Share your keyboard and mouse with other computers

  October 12, 2007

  I recently heard about a really cool open source software program on Leo Laporte's radio show "The Tech Guy". It's called Synergy. The software allows you to share the keyboard and mouse of one computer with other computers, and it does this all through software, no hardware needed. The typical way of doing this in the past was by installing a hardware KVM switch that you physically hooked your keyboard and mouse up to (and video, if you want), and then had to either physically press a button on the switch, or press a hot-key on the keyboard to have your keyboard and mouse switch to the other computer.

• Trixbox goes Drupal, so does 43folders

  September 22, 2007

  I was chatting with Crystal Williams yesterday, the amazing organizer that put together the recent DrupalCampLA, and she mentioned the company she works for just launched the new Trixbox commercial site with Drupal. It's a very clean design and implementation of Drupal.