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How to create a phone poll in under 5 minutes

By Chad • Jul 1st, 2010 • Category: Twilio

A couple weeks ago, an awesome company named Twilio released an open source business phone platform called OpenVBX. Many have described it as a roll-your-own Google Voice for businesses, where you create your own auto-attendants, call forwarding, conference and voicemail systems, but I want you to think of it as much more. I don’t have [...]



Google Voice + Locale

By Chad • Feb 19th, 2010 • Category: Android

About a month ago I purchased one of those awesome Nexus One Google phones and started tinkering to see what cool things I could make it do.  I love the phone, and as many of you know, absolutely love Google Voice too. I figure the only way Google Voice could be improved is if it magically [...]



Google Wave Add-on for Firefox

By Chad • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: Firefox

Google probably isn’t going to be happy about this, but I present to you the first ever Google Wave Notifier… for Firefox. This add-on reuses code from my other add-on, the Google Voice Add-on for Firefox (I’m great with names). If you have a Google Wave account, enter your login and password in the settings [...]



jQuery TinyMCE Plugin

By Chad • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Projects

A few projects of mine which are still in progress use TinyMCE for text editing.  I can’t stand the TinyMCE configuration, so a while back I wrote a jQuery plugin to make it a little less painful. The jQuery TinyMCE plugin differs from the standard TinyMCE configuration in that any jQuery object can be used [...]