http://www.stevenperich.com My personal blog with commentary, scrawlings and opinions on things I'm interested in. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:59:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Quite often people hear me, someone else or the press banging on about "wideband telephony" or "HD phone calls" and have a ton of questions about what this new phenomenon is, so I thought I would start a series of posts on my blog to try and explain in laymen's ... http://www.stevenperich.com/2009/06/how-to-make-your-phone-calls-sound-better/ Back in the mid-nineties I had an Ericsson GH688. As with most Ericssons at the time there were two unique things that I really loved about it.. The "heartbeat" LED at the top that flashed every few seconds The "tri-tone" ringtone that was really common at the time because it was the ... http://www.stevenperich.com/2009/05/oldschool-ericsson-ringtone-for-the-iphone/ When I was growing up mum used to always make this vegetable soup that was really nice. I don't know where she learnt to make it and really never met any other mum that makes vegetable soup that tastes the same.  I figure it's probably got to do with the ... http://www.stevenperich.com/2009/04/vegetable-soup-mmm/ After dinner I was still feeling a bit peckish and since Laura went out for coffee with a friend tonight I thought I'ld hunt around in the pantry and graze for additional nomnoms. Suddenly I remembered a delicious 5 minute cake recipe I saw on Mactalk awhiles back and the ... http://www.stevenperich.com/2009/04/delicious-cake-for-fatty/ I talked a little about the Siemens S685IP phone yesterday but didnt really mention the new firmware release a couple of days back.  This had a widely-anticipated feature, that almost every other phone in the world has had for years: A mute function! Good to see that Siemens have been listening ... http://www.stevenperich.com/2009/04/siemens-introduces-mute-to-the-s685ip-yay/ Thought I would mention the Siemens Gigaset IP phones because quite a few people have asked me recently for a voip-centric alternative to having a desk phone or some sort of analogue phone attached to an ATA.  Particularly in the home environment, people want to have the flexibility that a ... http://www.stevenperich.com/2009/04/siemens-gigaset-ip-phones/