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Saturday, 23 February 2008

Shut Up Ringtone

'Shut up' Chavez a ringtone hit
MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Many Spaniards were so amused when their king told Venezuela's president to "shut up" they want to hear the words every time their phone rings.

About half a million people have downloaded a mobile phone ringtone featuring the phrase "Por que no te callas?" or "Why don't you shut up?" leading Madrid daily El Pais reported on its Web site Monday.

That's what King Juan Carlos told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a heated confrontation at a summit in Chile last week.
The ringtone is thought to have generated around $2.2 million for the companies selling it, El Pais said.
T-shirts and mugs featuring the words are also becoming a profitable business, and videos of the confrontation have been a hit on the YouTube Web site.
Chavez's opponents in Venezuela are no less obsessed.
Pirated copies of the quote have been popping up in the South American country.
In Venezuela, T-shirts with the slogan in Spanish have the "NO" in uppercase -- a call for voting against constitutional reforms that would significantly expand Chavez's power. The Venezuelan leader says the changes would empower neighborhood-based assemblies and advance the country's transition to socialism.
"The king said what Venezuelans have wanted to say to Chavez's face for a long time," said Jenny Romero, 21, a student sporting one of the T-shirts in Caracas. "I'm wearing this T-shirt to protest everything bad that has happened in the country."
The spat last week began when Chavez repeatedly called former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar a "fascist."

Tuesday, 19 February 2008

Ringtone Maker - Converters

Ringtone Converter
The Ringtone Converter is a software program that allows the cell phone user to enter favorite ringtones quickly and easily into his mobile using its built-in ringtone composer without using cables or expensive SMS services.
The program converts ringtones of keypress, RTTTL (Ring Tone Text Transfer Language) and composer formats from one format into another. That means it converts ringtones that are found on the Internet from one format to another, for instance, from MIDI format to Keypress format. It also converts all the ringtones back into WAV formats. Generally the ringtones included in the converter are not subject to any copyright issues. Mobile users can change the appearance of their ringtone converters with the help of Windows version of the software through the application of ‘skins’ as per their tastes. Whatever phone and model you use—Audiovox, Alcatel, Ericsson, HTC, Inventec, Kyocera, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, NEC, OKWap, Panasonic, Philips, Sagem, Samsung, Sony, Sendo, Sharp or Siemens, the ringtone converter will create the best possible melody on the phone for an incoming call alert.
There are a certain number of ringtone converters available on the web free of charge. Uniring is the most popular free Universal Ringtone Converter, which allows the users to convert any Nokia ringtone from one format to another including those of well known brands like Samsung, Ericsson, Siemens and Motorola. You don’t need to be a technical or musical genius to use this program. Just follow the simple instructions. In most of cases, Uniring's output will be represented in the form of keypress sequences under which the mobile owner has to press some keys on his phone to get a favorite melody. If you want to compose your own ringtone and convert it into the phone’s format, use Nokring software, available on the Internet. The output of Nokring will be in RTTTL format, which in turn is converted to the phone’s format with the help of Uniring. Your ringtone is simply another way to express your individuality.
The Latest Buzz: The Mosquito Ringtone

Mosquito Ringtone
A cell phone, everyone has one and also the kids. But their cellphones are not always allowed on all places. On most schools or public places a mobile cell phone is not allowed. Like a cinema or a funeral. But also at school.
When your phone rings while you're at school you loose your phone when you get caught on having one in the school. And it's not so hard to notice a mobile phone when it rings, is it? But now there is a solution for that problem: the mosquito ringtone. This ringtone is a mp3 ringtone which makes the sound of a mosquito. But the sound is such a high sound that you need really good ears to hear it. And it is well-known that children have better ears than older people. When you become 20 years old you start getting hearing losses and you won't hear the mosquito ringtone. So that's what is so great about the mosquito ringtone at school, only you and your classmates hear them, not your teacher! But when the teacher has a good hearing, you're in deep mud!
Also when your phone 'rings' everyone in the class looks up to you and the teacher might get the idea of you having a mosquito ringtone on your cell phone. Your classmates might even ask to shut down the annoying sound!
This high sound technique is already used at some train stations in the Netherlands to get rid of all the youth that's hanging out there. They have speakers where they play the mosquito sound with so they scare off the local youth. So the train visitors feel safer and the peron is less busy. But there have also been complaints by the younger people who are waiting for the train to go to their work, they hear that annoying sound the whole time. So probably it's not that solution against the rebellic youth.
The mosquito ringtone is available on the internet on various websites. It's easy to get a free one, but you will need a cable to send it to your mobile phone.
The next question is: what's next? If you already have realtones, monophonic ringtones, polyphonic ringtones, irritones, voicetones, nametones, truetones, funtones, videotones and you now even have unhearable ringtones? I wonder what's next...

Wednesday, 13 February 2008

iPhone Ringtones in iTunes

iPhone Ringtones in iTunes
Apple recently announced that in their latest version of iTunes will be an included ringtone editor for the iPhone. This addition has sparked much controversy, particularly because Apple is charging $0.99 per ringtone made.
But is it fair to charge users an additional fee for use of a segment of a song that they already own? Apple argue that with the average ringtone costing upwards of $2.50, they save at least $0.50 by downloading the song and creating a ringtone out of it.
I personally believe that Apple is making the wrong decision. I was shocked to hear Steve Jobs announce that they'd be charging for use of the ringtone editor -- what was the whole point of so heavily promoting DRM-free songs if you're not able to use a segment of the song on your brand new iPhone? The fact that you have to pay additional money on top of the $600+ you spent on your iPhone to get rid of the increasingly annoying stock standard ringtones boggles the mind. Sure, you may get fancy "professional" fade in and fade outs added to your ringtone, but is it really worth the extra $0.99?
While I'm not trying to promote iPhone hacking, I'm sure a rebellious group of iHackers will already be hard at work to develop a free method of putting your own ringtones on the iPhone. I certainly wouldn't recommend the use of third party applications (for the one reason that I wouldn't want to reformat my iPhone), but the widespread use of them may just push Apple to reconsider their money making tactics.

Saturday, 02 February 2008

Free Downloadable Ringtones

Today, in the age of the telecom revolution, cell phones have become a common sight. With mobiles, come a lot of personalized services and features. One of the most popular features is downloadable and customized ringtones. Many cell phone users like to have a special ringtone not only to identify his own phone, but also to identify the caller even without looking at the number. Ringtones are very popular with high school and college aged kids, who lead the market in terms of ringtone downloads.
With the increase in the usage of monophonic and polyphonic ringtones, and with the ever-increasing demand for more ringtones, many portals and Web sites started to provide such tones online. Initially, most of the sites charged for the ringtones, or had a catch involved. But people wanted more and more for free, thus the concept of free downloadable ringtones was born.
Today, there are hundreds and thousands of sites providing all kinds of ringtones. This includes all types of songs, instrumentals, latest releases, dialogues, religious chants, ethnic songs and much more. Most of the free downloadable ringtones available today are in the WAV, MIDI or MP3 formats. If you download free video ringtones, they come in the very small packages of the .3GP format.
The ability to download totally free ringtones also depends on the capabilities of your phone. If you can connect it to your PC by data cable, bluetooth or infrared then there are a number of places you can get suitable files for ringtones from for free. With MP3s becoming a norm for ringtones, the possibilities have expanded further. However, it is important to be sure the site you download ringtones from is a secure site that you trust. Some sites are run by malicious coders who include spyware and viruses with the ringtones, which are two things nobody wants for free.