Archive for June, 2007

Custom Ringtones via iTunes (or $.99 realtones)

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Mac Rumors reports that the next version of iTunes may include a ringtone creator tool. iTunes 7.3 is listed as a requirement for the iPhone but has not yet been released by Apple. Reportedly, the new version of iTunes will allow you to convert any song that is available on iTunes ...

Size Matters: Chicks like big …

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Cellphones. Didn't you know. InformationWeek writes about a new Samsung report describing some of the habits of cellphone savvy women. Young women are super savvy at using all the facets of a mobile phone to enhance their lives. When women want to flirt, they'll send a text message. When they need to avoid ...

Barack The Vote with your Mobile

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

I must admit. I saw that on a t-shirt. Barack Obama has launched an SMS service to support his presidential campaign. He’s made it easy to join: People just send “Go” to OBAMA (62262)...ah, the benefit of a five-letter name. The service will keep voters apprised of campaign events such as local ...

What (TF) happened to my iGoogle homepage

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Sometime yesterday afternoon (around 4pm EST) I started losing my Google homepage tabs!! Has this happened to anyone else out there? I had 5 tabs altogether and with over 50 feeds and several widgets. Arghh. Back in October, I lost my mobile Google Homepage, but at least the web version was still there. Now ...

Ringtones Out the Wazoo

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Ringtones Out the Wazoo That may be a good headline for a company looking to sell ringtones; however that isn't the case for this posting. The Sun had a story about a UK prisoner who had to get his contraband cellphone surgically removed from his anus. There is only one place for ...

GotVoice: Visual Voicemail w/o an iPhone

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Want to see your voicemail? Don't have an iPhone? No problem, with wap and a 3rd party service called GotVoice you can have visual voicemail on your uncool un-iPhone. Traditional voice mail is a pain since you have to go through and at least listen to part of each message to ...

Use Ringtones to Catch Leopards

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

When ringtones were invented I don't think they had this in mind. In western India, animal sound ringtones such as the mooing of a cow or bleating of a goat have been used to lure hungry leopards away from people and into cages! Vasani said forest guards have downloaded the sounds ...