March 12, 2013
Mobile phones have been around for a long time, starting with the massive phones that were bigger than your head, to the flip phones, to the slider phones, to what we have now: smartphones. Yet even through all of that time, mobile phones still utilize ringtone technology to notify you of calls. Of course, nowadays ringtones are higher quality and, better yet, you can create your own! Creating a ringtone is actually a very easy task on Android.
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December 5, 2012
The Apple ecosystem is not only about synchronizing data and using multiple Mac accounts, it also includes features and apps useful for those special people and VIPs in your life - people for whom you don't ignore their emails or phone calls, and for those you probably share photos with. There are several iOS and OS X features and apps that you can use to highlight those special people in our life
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September 7, 2012
You've probably heard of Audacity. It's a free cross-platform application for recording and mixing, which also happens to be incredibly powerful and versatile. You can use it to record vocals, instruments and other sounds, mix them up into something useful and then create a music file to share. Many people use Audacity for podcasts or music mixing, but that's not all it's good for.
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September 4, 2012
School is about to start for many of us, which means lots of repetitive taps to silence your phone every morning. Even if you’re not a student but are working instead, you probably also need to repeat this procedure every morning, unless you want to go through the embarrassment of your phone ringing during an important meeting. Why not automate the process and make life easier for yourself? With the following free apps, you definitely can.
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August 4, 2012
Is your ringtone boring, phone-like and stupid? Don't be embarrassed - mine was too. Until, that is, I saw the light and changed it to one of the best sounds in the known universe: the Underworld Theme from the original Super Mario Bros. Now every time my phone rings, the people around me gaze in wonder and listen to my awesome ringtone, wishing they thought of that before me.
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May 17, 2012
Quickly edit any MP3 or AAC file on your Mac. If you need to make a quick edit to a file–like creating a ringtone or cropping a hidden track from a song–Macsome Audio Editor is a great free tool. It's certainly not the most advanced audio editor on the planet, but it's perfect for quick jobs.
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May 4, 2012
One of the most frustrating things for users of the Windows Phone platform upon its first release was the inability to set custom ringtones. Fortunately this is one of the areas in which the Mango update (officially known as Windows Phone 7.5) was able to improve the operating system, and as a result it is now possible to add ringtones for incoming calls. There are several ways of doing this.
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March 23, 2012
Has it already been over 3 years since Android was first released to the public? But it’s always nice to take a step back and return to the basics every once in a while. Remember ringtones? As a newbie, I couldn’t figure out for the life of me how to create and install ringtones on my device.If you own a n Android phone and still don’t know how to do that, then read on.
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February 22, 2012
I never really thought about this much until I saw this infographic today but annoying ringtones do seem to be on the decline. I mean, I can't remember the last time I heard "I'm too sexy" blaring out in a crowded room or Bohemian Rhapsody making everyone in the bus instinctively start twitching their heads back and forth, Wayne's World style. But hey, I can't talk.
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November 2, 2011
One of the most talked about features of Apple's new mobile operating system is the ability to add custom SMS and alert tones to your iPhone. Back in the old days the iPhone limited users to only a few SMS tones, which is why everywhere you went all you heard was that annoying tritone sound. Thankfully, with iOS 5, Apple included many more ringtones right off the bat, and you can add more.
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September 8, 2011
Ringtones are a very subjective thing, so it’s nice that Android comes with such a large selection of them. But once you’ve settled on a few ringtones you like, having to scroll through a lengthy list of irritating sounds just to swap between those few can get old pretty fast. For some reason, Android’s designers didn’t include a way to easily delete built-in ringtones.
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September 15, 2010
Humor is the best ice-breaker there is. Have you ever seen how heads turn when your mobile phone starts buzzing with a funny sound? Dressing up your mobile phone with cool wallpapers, and cooler applications is fine of course. But to take the banner of the “˜coolest’, think of funny sound clips. You can use [...]
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July 28, 2010
People love to personalize things that they own to make those items stand out among other similar items that other people have. We can see examples everywhere such as people painting their houses with different colors, styling their hair, using and customizing different themes for their blogs, putting their laptops into colorful cases, and customizing [...]
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May 12, 2010
Are you sick and tired of your played out ringtones? Does everyone sigh when your phone starts ringing? Either way I am about to introduce you to some slick, cool and unique ringtones. Stephen Wolfram published a book in 2002 that generated awesome new uses of technology and this one is creating awesome, ear pleasing [...]
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March 13, 2010
So you went out and got yourself a new mobile phone or maybe you just want to spruce up your existing device. Either way most new mobile communication devices accept MP3′s as ringtones. I will be showing you some cool resources to download mp3 ringtones for cell phones for FREE! Different people want different kinds [...]
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