Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

Visual Dial Plan for Asterisk, that I have written earlier about, has released a new version. Visual Dialplan for Asterisk v1.2 brings in improved performance and Asterisk dialplan code preview capability.
The Visual Dial Plan 1.2 for Asterisk is free upgrade to users of Visual Dial Plan 1.0.x and 1.1.x so go ahead and download it as the upgrade also fixes several issues and improved behavior of several components:

* Memory leak issue that forced Visual Dialplan to freeze after some time is now fixed
* Festival (Text to Speech) components
* LumenVox (Speech recognitions) components
* Say component
* MeetMe component
* Dial component
* BackgroundDetect component
* VoiceMailMain component
* AgentCallabckLogin component
* Page component
* GotoIfTime component
* Math function
* Rand function

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

Have you been looking to use TAPI and TAPI-compatible applications to connect to the Asterisk IP-PBX? Applications like … Microsoft Outlook, ACT!, TapiCall, MS Dialer,…? Now you can with a Open Source Project, Activa for Asterisk, Hosted at Sourceforge.
According to the information provided by the site, Generally speaking a TAPI Service Provider (TSP) is a ‘driver’ that enables Microsoft TAPI to communicate to a telephony device such as a switch or modem.

Good Luck with your TAPI while I have some coffee.

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

If you are like me, setting up dial plans has been one of the trivial task of setting up and deploying Asterisk. I have now seen the light. After Daily Asterisk News directed me to the Apstel’s Visual Dial Plan, I am feeling better about creating and using dial plans.
I down loaded the application, which is in beta and I have not registered yet. But the trial version is so promising that I wonder if we need to call it a beta.
Of course I did not have time to go through all the variables of the program but I intent do do so. But I did go through the provided sample applications and so far I did not have to use help!, which is also very extensive, just by looking at it.
One more good thing about the application and beta testing, If you register for beta testing and if you are accepted, you might end up with a free copy of final product!. (The Visual Dial Plan is not a open source product.)
Here is what Apstel tell what Visual Dial Plan is;
"Visual Dialplan for Asterisk® is revolutionary visual modeling platform that enables Asterisk users and consultants to create, maintain and test dialplan in an easy, fast, convenient and natural way. Take advantage and comfort of windows user interface with drag and drop capabilities, use predefined samples (templates) and components, and validate Asterisk dialplan without even deploying it at the Asterisk box. Simply model it, don’t code!"

Go here to apply for beta testing.