FreeNAS as Digital Shoebox

FreeNAS is nearly what I want (for now). In addition to consolidating my files I want to run an IMAP server (dovecot) for my decade of archived email on my wildly over-powered “storage appliance” (sporting GBs of underutilized RAM and storage).

Embedded Asterisk for home PBX

Tried AsteriskNOW 1.2 in VMWare today. I like the AsteriskNOW GUI and approach to configuration file management (i.e. does not make a mess). Imagine lots of users would like to install AsteriskNOW on Soekris or PC Engines ALIX SBC style systems.

Garmin Connect compared with MotionBased

Hopefully Garmin Connect (“Connect”) is under heavy development. MotionBased (“MB”), it’s predecessor, was acquired by Garmin and will be replaced with Connect sometime soon. MB has always had poor performance, but offers many useful and interesting features to analyze GPS and workout data, so much so that I happily paid $10+/month for MB before Garmin bought it.