January 3, 2010
On Christmas day, I became the excited owner of a Motorola Droid, one of the best phones currently on the market running the Android 2.1 Operating System. Like most people who got a Droid that day, I went straight to the app store to find free Android applications that would improve my experience, increase the [...]
October 6, 2009
I bought my first cellphone at the end of 1998. It was a state of the art product with a black and green screen, the ability to send SMS and making calls, and – are you ready? – monophonic ringtones! I was very proud to own the gadget that cost me a few months of [...]
August 13, 2009
Have you ever wanted to create your own ringtone out of”¦ well out of anything? Did you think it was too difficult and gave up? If you can save your recording as a MP3, WMA or OGG file you are already 80% of the way to creating your own free ringtones. This includes selecting the [...]
July 19, 2009
It happens to the best of us: you’re clicking on random YouTube links when a friend sends you the best remix you’ve ever heard, and suddenly, you’re gripped by an overwhelming urge to try and mix your own music. Unfortunately, mixing audio not only entails picking the tracks to mix, but also downloading beats, sound [...]
July 18, 2009
There are plenty of sites that allow you to view and upload videos and share your memories, experiences and knowledge with the world. However, with its extremely large user base and plenty of tools at your disposal, few may argue that YouTube is the place for your videos to be. Some time back we showed [...]
July 15, 2009
You’re pitching the business case for your great money-making-and-saving idea. All the C-Level types are there. Then all of a sudden, you and everyone else can hear the strains of Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean. You didn’t turn the phone off before the meeting. Who knew that your career would end to the song you moonwalked [...]
July 14, 2009
Does music express the kind of people we are? I am not sure, but it’s a direct barometer of our likes and dislikes. I guess going by the mobile ringtone rage and the number of websites feeding the craving, the idea of saying “˜who we are’ through music has entered the cells too. I am [...]
May 23, 2009
Star Trek fans are usually technology fanatics. This stems from the fact that if you grew up when any “generation” of Star Trek episode was on, then you quickly became obsessed with the cool gadgets that the Star Trek crew carried and used throughout the ship (or on planets). Now that the world has progressed [...]
November 27, 2008
A little bit ago, Jerry wrote up a story about how to use iTunes to create custom ringtones for the iPhone using only software you probably have installed already. It’s a good tip, but I love specialized software with a dedicated user interface, so I was left unsatisfied. I hunted down this handy application and [...]
November 18, 2008
The other day I decided that I should have some different ringtones on my iPhone 3G. Notably, I wanted a separate one for my wife, and several other different ones for my business colleagues. For some reason I had it in my head that making ringtones from the music that I had in my iTunes [...]
