Category Archives: Development

Booting a Dell Laptop Using Linux on a USB Key

Here’s a tip we learned this week while working on a project for Rondee. We’ve been using a great USB-Key based Linux distribution called pendrivelinux — search it on Google to find it. Anyway, there’s a common problem that comes … Continue reading

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Rondee Code Section Now Live

We’ve decided to make available to the public some code snippets for use with Asterisk, the free PBX which powers the Rondee free conferencing service. The first code in the set allows live streaming of audio from conferences using only … Continue reading

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Automatically Block Annoying Telemarketers

One of our missions at Rondee is to let our users know about innovative telephony services as they become available. PhoneSpamFilter.com is one such service. It’s a user-supported clearinghouse of phone solicitor phone numbers, and more importantly, it allows telephony … Continue reading

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Unscheduled Outage

Some of you may have noticed that Rondee was not accessible for a period of time this past weekend. We apologize for this unplanned outage. It was due to a catastrophic failure at our primary hosting facility, theplanet.com. Here is … Continue reading

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Recurring conference calls

We’ve recently released some fixes to the ability to schedule a call which recurs every day, weekday, week or month. This may mean that some people who scheduled recurring calls in the past will suddenly receive new invitations in their … Continue reading

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Audio Recording Now Available

We’ve fixed some glitches in our audio recording system. Users should now be able to access the audio recorded from all past free conference calls using the system. If you’re still unable to access some audio that you think should … Continue reading

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Feature: Listen-only PINs for your free conference calls

Some customers have asked us to provide them with a special PIN that they can distribute to others who would like to listen-in on an ongoing conference call. We will shortly launch a new feature designed to do just that. … Continue reading

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vCal support fixed for iCal on Macintosh

Some users had reported problems with subscribing to their Rondee calendar using a Macintosh. We have now modified the vCal files generated by Rondee to work properly on iCal. We have also tested the new code against Google Calendar and … Continue reading

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