HOME FRONTNUMBER ABOUT Subscribe Zach Garcia WI boy. AZ man. Husband of Lynn. Dad to Lyza Bea and Arden Jay. Lover of gadgets and home automation. Art collector. Eater. Home cook. Diner outer. Food nerd. Once ran *from* the bulls. Gilbert, AZ • 151 posts • GM Files Blockchain Patent Last week automaker General Motors filed a patent for a solution to manage data from autonomous vehicles using Blockchain. 1 MIN READ How to Enable Bluetooth on a Digium Telephone Digium D65 and D80 telephone models have Bluetooth (BT) ability used to connect to Bluetooth enabled wireless headsets. The Bluetooth App on the phone allows you to turn on and off the option 2 MIN READ Rose colored glasses I’d like to believe that I see the world differently. As a guy that sees the world through a computer screen most of the day, I’d like to keep doing that… 4 MIN READ Where have you been? I was going to call this post "What I did on my Summer Vacation" but I'd hardly call the last few months a "vacation". After about a nearly two month hiatus of writing 5 MIN READ Blockhead $100 purchased on January 1, 2011 would have bought you 333.33 Bitcoin. At current rates that would be worth $2,189,819.77 USD. So it's no wonder why everyone is so 3 MIN READ Way outside the box Hustle Con is a conference for non technical startup entrepreneurs. They bring successful founders on stage to explain how they launched and grew their brands. I had the opportunity and pleasure of attending 4 MIN READ Fear /feer/: an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. It's crippling. Debilitating. And even more frustrating when you can't control it. 2 MIN READ Are you guilty? Video Transcript: Hola Interwebs! Zach from Chromis.com inside the shark tank aka my home office in Arizona... It’s Wednesday and on Wednesdays we wear pink… Wait… It’s not Wednesday… It’ 1 MIN READ Measuring Broadband Speeds Sammy Hagar wrote "I can't drive 55!" But if he were Canadian it would be "I can't drive 88.51392, eh!" Not as cool in Kilometers per Hour as 4 MIN READ Open office? No thanks. Crowdfunding/sourcing is amazing. I'm a fan of this alternative fundraising because it has launched some really cool products (see Nomiku for an awesome success story). But every now and again something wacky 1 MIN READ Technology is frustrating Technology is frustrating, even for technical people. There is always a solution and once you get it right, it can even be delicious. I recently purchased a new security camera system for my 6 MIN READ iOS Wifi Password Sharing As part of their iOS 11 release earlier this year, Apple release a new feature called Wifi Password sharing that's designed to let you quickly share your Wi-Fi password with a friend. Let's 2 MIN READ Frontnumber Use Case Text messaging without a mobile phone Frontnumber is a tool that businesses can use to send and recieve text messages. But how? Let's take a look at some of our features a little 3 MIN READ Chromis Receives Digium Award (Again) I'm running out of room on the shelf in my office. As you can see it's littered with my business book collection and Digium Pinnacle Circle of Excellence awards. And it's just been 1 MIN READ There Is No Magic Pill "This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... You stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." 2 MIN READ Phoenix Startup Week 2018 February 19-23, 2018 Phoenix isn't all cactus and coyotes. According to Gregslist of Arizona Software Companies there are currently 297 AZ based active companies. We're part of the Silicon Desert and we're proud 1 MIN READ Text messaging stats that matter Why it's time for Business to take messaging seriously There's a couple year old blog post out on the interwebs that continues to intrigue me. Titled: "45 Texting Statistics That Prove Businesses 1 MIN READ Our mission Frontnumber mission statement: To facilitate high quality communications through simplicity. Our Values: Creativity: We will always ask if there's a better way to solve a problem. Discipline: We will be relentless in our 1 MIN READ An origin story. On September 9, 2007 Jonathan Rusk registered the domain Frontnumber.com. The initial idea was to build an application that would allow a user to anonoymize, mask, forward (and more) to any number 1 MIN READ What is Frontnumber? Frontnumber is: Text messaging for individuals or teams, no mobile phone required. Share one or multiple numbers to send and receive text messages. Each member of your business or organization can participate. Here's 1 MIN READ Steps to updating Digium Switchvox It’s always a good idea to stay up to date with Switchvox versions. To update: Run a Backup and save to your local hard drive. To create a backup go to: Server 2 MIN READ Upgrade your Switchvox Appliance and Save up to 35% The Switchvox Summer Appliance Promotion provides you with an additional 30-35% off MSRP on appliances and cold spares. But hurry because this offer ends soon! Who: All Current and New Switchvox systems. What: 1 MIN READ 833 Toll Free is Coming Originally, a call billed to the called party had to be placed through an operator as a collect call. She had to secure acceptance of the charges at the remote number before manually 1 MIN READ It's time to take advantage of SIP Trunking It used to be that companies were afraid of using the Internet to carry their voice traffic. But with increased routing throughput, better QoS capabilities, and ISPs increasing their bandwidth speeds, there is 1 MIN READ Switchvox for VMware You already know the benefits of Switchvox, but if you're also running a VMware environment why not add Switchvox to the mix? Driven by VMware’s disaster recovery capabilities and scalability, Switchvox support 1 MIN READ Chromis Technology © 2021 Latest Posts Facebook Twitter Ghost