https://www.64characters.com/ Recent content on 64 Characters Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us [Impressum](/impressum/) • [Privacy Policy](/privacy/) • Made in Berlin Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/blog/introducing-private-maps/ Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/blog/introducing-private-maps/ I’ve always been missing a maps app that is private, lightweight, easy on the battery, and in standard OpenStreetMap style. So, I created one! Meet Private Maps. It uses high-resolution tiles for best experience on retina screens. The tiles are raster, which means they are created on the server and not on your devices, resulting in longer battery life. Also, the map doesn’t suffer from the simplification on the lower zoom levels that can be seen in the apps using vector tiles. https://www.64characters.com/blog/whats-new-in-telephone-16/ Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/blog/whats-new-in-telephone-16/ Telephone 1.6 adds support for the modern macOS look and Apple Silicon. https://www.64characters.com/blog/whats-new-in-telephone-15/ Fri, 28 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/blog/whats-new-in-telephone-15/ Telephone 1.5 is there, and it supports encryption. UDP is probably the most widely used protocol for SIP. It is also used by default in Telephone. If you haven’t changed SIP transport in settings, UDP is used. Some public SIP providers or company servers may also work with TCP, but UDP still seems to be the default. Neither UDP nor TCP transport provides encryption. The communication between the phone and the SIP server happens in the clear. https://www.64characters.com/blog/whats-new-in-telephone-142/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/blog/whats-new-in-telephone-142/ Two versions of Telephone—1.4.1 and 1.4.2—have been released. Here’s what’s changed. The new Music app macOS Catalina introduced a new Music app. It replaced iTunes, which had been with us for quite some time. Internally, Music is not a renamed iTunes, but a completely different app, with own identifier. That’s why Telephone in Catalina stopped pausing music. Telephone update fixes this. VPNs More and more often people connect to their telephony server remotely. https://www.64characters.com/blog/what-is-voip/ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/blog/what-is-voip/ Voice over IP is a way of having phone calls via the Internet or local computer network. Calls on Face Time, Skype, WhatsApp, Messenger, or Telegram are VoIP calls. But these services are locked to itself. You can’t call somebody on WhatsApp from Skype. Luckily, VoIP is not limited to locked services. The technology is open and widely used in combination with traditional phone services. If you want to call somebody on a regular phone number, you can make it using VoIP. https://www.64characters.com/blog/ten-years-of-telephone/ Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/blog/ten-years-of-telephone/ Earlier this week, Telephone turned 10. On December 17, 2008, I released the first version 0.8 to the public. It was on Google Code—a go-to place for hosting and publishing opensource projects. Since then, it’s come a long way. The source code repository has been migrated two times: from SVN to Mercurial to git. The project hosting has moved from Google Code to GitHub. The distribution—from Google Code to the Mac App Store. https://www.64characters.com/blog/whats-new-in-telephone-14/ Thu, 22 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/blog/whats-new-in-telephone-14/ It’s been quite some time since the last release and I’m glad to present Telephone 1.4 to you. Dark Mode Dark Mode is a feature of macOS Mojave and Telephone now fully supports it. Same as system Historically, Telephone has been using built-in devices for playing and capturing audio unless a specific device is selected in preferences. This had been the expected behavior of Mac apps in the past and it changed over time. https://www.64characters.com/blog/whats-new-in-telephone-13/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/blog/whats-new-in-telephone-13/ Telephone 1.3 has been released and I’m thrilled to tell you about this update. Call history The long-awaited call history is finally here! It conveniently looks up names in your macOS Contacts, just as one of the app’s favorite features—contacts autocompletion—already does. Press Tab to switch the keyboard focus between the text field and the history. Press Return to make a call. Press Delete to remove the call from the history. https://www.64characters.com/impressum/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/impressum/ 64 Characters UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Pappelallee 78/79 10437 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Alexey Kuznetsov Registergericht: Berlin-Charlottenburg Registernummer: HRB 173736 B USt.-IdNr.: DE304514613 Telefon: +49 30 55572164 (kein technischer Support) Email: e704 at 64characters.com https://www.64characters.com/privacy/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/privacy/ Last updated: February 8, 2024 Applications We respect and protect your privacy. Our apps don’t collect any data from you. No analytics or usage statistics are sent back to our servers. The apps ask you only for the data that is necessary for providing their functionality. All applications store their data only locally on the device. iCloud backups Private Tracker’s data is part of the data that is being backed up by iOS. https://www.64characters.com/tracker/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/tracker/ Clean and simple Track your current time, distance, speed, and average pace on a clean dashboard. Private Tracker stores your data locally on your device and never uploads it to the cloud. No analytics or usage data is collected and no registration required. You are in full control. OpenStreetMap Explore the detailed high-resolution OpenStreetMap maps. Own OpenStreetMap servers are used to guarantee privacy. The usage data is neither collected nor shared. https://www.64characters.com/telephone/providers/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/telephone/providers/ In general, any SIP provider should work. If you want to share your provider settings, please contact the support. FRITZ!Box avm.de With FRITZ!Box, the typical setup is different. Instead of configuring Telephone directly with the SIP provider settings, these settings should be configured in the FRITZ!Box as an internet phone number. After that, an internal IP phone account should be created in the FRITZ!Box for Telephone and any other hardware or software phone. https://www.64characters.com/support/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/support/ Please write your questions and suggestions to: support@64characters.com https://www.64characters.com/telephone/faq/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/telephone/faq/ Where can I get a SIP account? You can get a SIP account from a SIP provider. SIP provider is a phone provider that allows making calls via the SIP protocol. Chances are, your current phone provider already does that. If not, just search the internet for a SIP provider in your location. The local phone providers often have lower prices or special offers for local calls. But you’re not restricted to a local provider. https://www.64characters.com/terms-and-conditions/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/terms-and-conditions/ Last updated: January 13, 2018 These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”, “Terms and Conditions”) govern your relationship with mobile and desktop applications (the “Service”) operated by 64 Characters UG (haftungsbeschränkt) (“us”, “we”, or “our”). Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before using our mobile and desktop applications (the “Service”). Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the Service. https://www.64characters.com/timer/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.64characters.com/timer/ Just a timer Enter — start Escape — cancel Space — pause/resume Keeps going Accidentally quit the app? No problem, just launch it again and the countdown continues as if nothing had happened. You are in control Pick one of the system sounds or use your own. Change the alarm volume to your liking.