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Ringer.Org: Easily Create Your Own Custom Ringtones

Dave LeClair — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:01:07 +0000

Ever since cell phones hit the market, people have wanted to have their own ringtones. Even when the tones were nothing more than a series of beeps and bloops, people still wanted theirs to be individualized. Now, things have advanced, and ringtones are full-fledged songs. Ringer.org makes it incredibly easy for users to jump in and make their own ringtones.

Users simply go to ringer.org, upload a file in AAC, FLAC, M4A, MP3, OGG, WAV or WMA format. Songs can be uploaded from a user’s computer or from a URL. Users can then choose easy mode, advanced mode or expert mode. Each mode allows the user to tweak more details about the outputted tone. Once they are satisfied with their tone, users can click “Make Ringtone” to have it outputted.

Once the ringtone is finished, it can be downloaded to your hard drive, emailed to you or sent to your cell phone. Of course, sending it to your phone directly will only be supported on certain devices. Either way, this site makes it easy to make and tweak a ringtone to your liking.

Features

Three skill modes to customize your tone as much or as little as you like.
Pick the length and parts of the song the tone comes from.
Supports audio in AAC, FLAC, M4A, MP3, OGG, WAV or WMA format.
Send tones to your hard drive, email or directly to your phone.
Browser based; no software to download.
Similar tools: YouTube To Ringtone Converter, Tube2Tone, MadRingtones and Brinked Ringtone Creator.

Find Ringer.org @ www.ringer.org

YouTube To Ringtone Converter: Turn YouTube Videos Into Ringtones For Your Phone

MOin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:01:59 +0000

Have you found a YouTube video that you want to set as your phone’s ringtone? Normally to do this, you will first need to download the video, then pass it through a video-to-audio conversion app. You might also need a separate application to extract the part of the audio that you need. But all of this can be done using a single web app called YouTube to Ringtone Converter.

YouTube to Ringtone Converter is a user-friendly web app that lets you easily convert YouTube videos to ringtones for your phone. All you have to do is provide the site with the URL of the YouTube video. After the video loads up in the site’s interface, you can set the Start and End markers for your ringtone. Finally you select a name and format for your ringtone. Supported audio formats include MP3, AAC, M4R, MP4, OGG, and WMA.

When the conversion has completed, you can download your ringtone directly to your local drive.

NOTE: For a few YouTube videos such as the VEVO ones, the app seems not to function flawlessly.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you convert YouTube videos to ringtones.
Lets you select Start and End markers for ringtone.
Supports MP3, AAC, M4R, MP4, OGG, and WMA output formats.
Similar tools: Tube2Tone, MadRingtones and Brinked Ringtone Creator.
Also read related articles:

Check out YouTube to Ringtone Converter @ www.video2ringtone.com (by MOin from Thumb Press)

Free-Ringtone-Maker: Convert Music Files To Ringtones

Israel Nicolas — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:01:08 +0000

If you are tired of looking for ringtones of your favorite song, why not convert the songs in your hard drive to a ringtone you can use? Free Ringtone Maker is a lightweight, simple app running in Windows for making your own free ringtones.

To start using Free Ringtone Maker, just run the program and open the song that you like to convert. Then pick the best part of the song with the cutting tool. You can preview the song and add in fade-in and fade-out effects. Once you are satisfied, just click to save the ringtone to your computer, ready to be used on your phone.

Free Ringtone Maker is an easy cut-and-save tool for those who want to have a large collection of ringtones from their own music.

Features:

Convert any song into a ready ringtone.
Light and quick to use.
Cut part of the song that you only want for your ringtone.
Free to download and use.
Similar Tools: Tonebee, MakeOwnRingtone, and Tube2One.

Check out Free Ringtone Maker @ www.musetips.com/free-ringtone-maker.html

Brinked Ringtone Creator: Make Your Own Ringtone & Send To Phone

MOin — Sun, 15 May 2011 17:01:32 +0000

Setting a custom ringtone on your phone is a nice way to get notified of calls, messages, and any alerts. To obtain various ringtones and create custom ones, you should check out a service called Brinked Ringtone Creator.

Brinked Ringtone Creator is a simple online tool that helps create ringtones. Your first step on the site should be to create an account and enter your details. Next you can start using the ringtone creation tool and specify a song by uploading it from your computer or by providing a YouTube link. After that you select the portion of the song that you want as the ringtone.

With your ringtone complete you can name it and have it sent to your phone. You can also use the site to get ringtones that others have created.

The ringtone creation tool offers an embed code that you can use on a variety of blogging platforms.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Offers a variety of ringtones.
Lets you create your own ringtones.
You can create ringtones from files on your computer or songs on YouTube.
Ringtone creation tool can be embedded on your blog.
Similar tools: MakeMyRingtone, MadRingtones, MyMusicRings, Mobile17 and MakeOwnRingtone.
Also read related articles:

Check out Brinked Ringtone Creator @ www.brinked.com/create-ringtone.html (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Shush Ringer Restorer: Restores Android Ringer Volume After Predefined Time

MOin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:01:45 +0000

Many of us turn our phones to the ‘Silent’ profile and then forget to change it back. As a result, we miss important calls and not read urgent messages quickly. A solution to this is presented by a tool called Shush Ringer Restorer.

Shush Ringer Restorer is a smartphone application for Android devices running version 2.0 or later. The app comes with a download size of only 28KB and it helps restore android ringer volume when you change it to Silent. When you mute the phone using the device’s volume buttons, the app asks you how long you want the phone to stay silent. You can then set a time limit after which the phone’s ringing profile automatically reverts back.

Features:

A user-friendly Android ringer profile app.
Compatible with Android devices.
Lets you revert phone profile when turned to silent.
Sets a time limit for the Silent profile.
Helps avoid missed calls due to the Silent profile.
Similar tool: RD Mute.

Check out Shush Ringer Restorer @ market.android.com/details?id=com.publicobject.shush (via LifeHacker) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Photile Live Wallpaper: Turn Pictures Into A Cool Floating Tiled Wallpapers (Android)

azim — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:01:14 +0000

Photile is an Android app that lets you turn any picture into a grid of floating and sliding tiles and set it as your phone’s wallpaper. It provides various settings to adjust the look and feel of the moving tiles – you can change the tiles’ size, spacing and background colour, fading/sliding speed, or how the wallpaper reacts when you touch it (subtle or like an explosive shockwave) and other effects.

You can play around with different settings and save them as themes or, if you are lazy, check out the pre-installed themes to test-drive the effects. The app is free to download for Android phones.

Watch demo video below:

Features:

Turn any picture into a grid of live floating picture android wallpaper.
Change the size, spacing, shadows, and background color of the tiles.
Change fading and sliding speed of the tiles.
Save your effects or use pre-installed themes to test drive all the different settings.
Free download for Android phones.

Check out Photile @ market.android.com/details?id=com.joko.photile&feature=search_result (via DailyMobile)

MyColorscreen: Share Smartphone Themes & Wallpapers With Others

MOin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:01:24 +0000

Many smartphone owners put in a lot of effort customizing their homescreens. Then they share it with their friends to impress them with their phone’s look. If you are one of those people and are proud of your phone’s homescreen, then you can share it with the world on MyColorScreen.

MyColorScreen is a website where smartphone owners can share the looks of their homescreens. Images are categorized as Popular, Android, and iOS. People can provide a link for the apps if there are any present in the image. You can browse a number of homescreen images and click on the one you like. You will then be taken to the screen’s enlarged view; this is where you are able to download the wallpaper in the image.

The site provides a wonderful platform for sharing great apps, wallpapers, themes, and customization with other designers and developers.

Features:

A user-friendly website.
Lets smartphone owners share their phone themes.
Lets people upload images of their homescreens.
The wallpapers in the images are downloadable.
Provides a great platform for smartphone-theme sharing.
Similar tool: iPhoneThemes and HelixLauncher.

Check out MyColorScreen @ www.mycolorscreen.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Weblivewallpaper: Dynamic background pictures for your Android phone

MOin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:01:09 +0000

Picking up your smartphone and finding the same wallpaper every time can be quite boring. To get a fresh view of your mobile phone each time you look at it, you will need an actively changing background image. Such dynamic background image can be obtained with the help of WebLiveWallpaper.

WebLiveWallpaper is a free smartphone application, sized at 99KB and compatible with devices running Android 1.5 and later. Using the app you can set up any website as the background image of your phone. You can specify a website that regularly changes its images or you can specify the broadcast URL of a webcam feed. Next you select a refresh time for the app to fetch a new image from the URL.

Features:

A user friendly smartphone app that provides dynamic background image.
Compatible with Android apps.
Fetches new images from websites.
Puts these images as your phone’s background.
You can specify the refresh time.
Similar tool: WallCast, Flickr Wallpaper Rotator, SE-DesktopConstructor and DesktopEarth.

Check out WebLiveWallpaper @ market.android.com/details?id=com.dngames.websitelivewallpaper&pli=1 (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Foxkehâ€™s Wallpaper Creator: Create Firefox themed wallpapers for desktop & Mobile

MOin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:01:10 +0000

Are you tired of creating wallpapers for your desktop on Microsoft Paint? To make advanced desktop or smartphone wallpapers, pay a visit to Foxkeh’s Wallpaper Creator. In addition to helping you create great wallpapers, it promotes using them as your Firefox theme through Personas.

Foxkeh’s Wallpaper Creator is a free web app that makes use of SVG technology. It creates wallpapers for your computer’s desktop and smartphone screen. The produced wallpapers are in PNG image format. A number of good customization options are available to produce great wallpapers.

You start by choosing either a computer or a smartphone in addition to the wallpaper’s resolution. Then you edit the Firefox character to insert. You can also edit the background image, the calendar, and the Firefox logo. When you preview the final work, right-click on the image and choose “Set As Desktop Background” to set it up as the wallpaper or “Save Image As” to save the image to use it on your smartphone’s screen or as an image with Firefox’s personas.

Note: Scroll down at the bottom of the page to enter the wallpaper creator.

Features:

Generate cool firefox wallpapers.
Although all browsers are supported, it best works on Mozilla Firefox.
Provides a number of wallpaper customization options.
You can add calendar to your wallpaper.
Lets you insert Firefox-like characters that will surely appeal to Firefox fans.
You can specify the resolution of the wallpaper in the start.
Similar tools: WallBase, MultiMonitorGroup, Poolga, X3Studios, MinimalWall and DailyWallpaper.
Also read related articles: The Best Resources to Pimp Your Wallpaper, 9 Fascinating and Cool 3D Backgrounds for Computers and How To Get Your Own iPhone Wallpapers and Themes.

Check out “Foxkeh’s Wallpaper Creator” @ wallpapers.foxkeh.com/en/getfirefox.html (Via LifeHacker) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

RingDroid: Android Phone Ringtone Creator

TehseenBaweja — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:01:43 +0000

Why bother downloading a ringtone from the web when you can create one right on your phone? RingDroid is a free Android ringtone creator that lets you create custom ringtones, alarm and notification sounds from any audio clip. Simply choose the starting and ending point on a scrollable waveform presentation of a clip using your touch screen.

Save it as a new audio file and mark it as a ringtone, alarm or notification sound. You can also use the app to record a new audio file, delete audio files, edit them or assign a ringtone directly to a contact’s name.

Supported file formats include MP3, MP4, AAC, WAV, 3GPP and AMR.

To see it in action watch demo video below:

Features:

Create and edit ringtones on your Android phone.
Create alarm and notification sounds.
Choose start and end point on an audio clip to create new clip.
Record, edit or delete an audio file.
Supports over 6 audio formats.
View audio file in waveform at 5 different zoom levels.
For more similar tools see MakeUseOf “ringtones” section.

Download RingDroid @ http://code.google.com/p/ringdroid