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Somali Terrorists Ban Musical Ringtones
10:13PM Danny Allen | Seriously, how messed up is this. Al Shabaab insurgents in Somalia (Al Qaeda’s proxy in the region) are going around flogging teenagers for listening to music and watching videos on their phones. Not to mention the senseless killings and amputations. More »
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You’re Not Infringing Copyright When Your Ringtone Goes Off
5:48AM Matt Buchanan | Funny thing about ringtones: A royalty’s paid every time one’s downloaded, but the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers wanted royalties paid every time one is played, claiming that it’s a public performance. A federal judge says nope. More »
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12 Ultrasonic Ringtones For Your Nearly-Silent Listening Pleasure
5:00AM Jack Loftus | The kiddies have been using ultrasonic ringtones to secretly take calls/texts in class since 2006, but if you’re an adult who can still hear these frequencies then by all means head over to Lifehacker for some of your own [Lifehacker]
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Create Your Own iPhone Ringtone Using iTunes
4:50PM Gizmodo US Edition | In case you wanted to create your challenge to the world’s longest ringtone, CNET has an interesting little video tutorial up that’ll show you how to do so on the iPhone using iTunes. Turns out the music software lets you choose the start and stop times of a song, rename the extension and create a custom ringtone. You’ll need Garage Band if you want to get fancier than that, but who needs fancy when all you want to do is make a 62 minute-long song? [CNET TV] More »
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World’s Longest Ringtone Clocks In at Over an Hour
1:45PM Gizmodo US Edition | For those of you who love to let your mobile phones ring incessantly, never bothering to pick it up or let it go to voicemail, here’s the world’s longest mobile phone ringtone. The ringtone, supplied by Japanese company Dwango, lasts 61 minutes and 40 seconds and will be submitted for inclusion in the Guinness Book of Records. [PlusD via Textually]
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Question of the Day: Do You Use Your Mobile Phone Vibrate Function?
7:00AM Sean Fallon | The problem with my iPhone is that I can barely hear the ringtone when I receive a call. Maybe I’m going deaf, but I have vibrate set at all times as a backup just in case. It helps me catch any crucial calls when the ringtone may be drowned out by ambient noise—plus I like the way it feels in my pants. But what about you? Do you use your mobile phone vibrate function? More »
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Safe Sex Ringtone for India, Funded by Bill and Melinda Gates
1:15AM Mark Wilson | In order to thwart the spread of HIV in India, “condom a cappella” has been released by an organisation that’s funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A ringtone that’s meant to promote safe sex, we thought that it might consist of a crying babies, nasty bodily functions or soliloquies from one’s parents, but instead the ringer is a chant of “condom, condom!” And as everyone knows, if people chant a word on a mobile phone ringer, its correlating concept is immediately embraced by the youth of the world. [breitbart] More »
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Question of the Day: What’s Your Ringtone?
9:00AM Matt Buchanan | The noise your phone emits when someone’s trying to get a hold of you is a deeply personal thing. Our intern Dan likes to be shamed into answering his phone as quickly as possible—when his phone shrieked “EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!” at the office, everyone laughed and he ran into the corner to take his call, post-haste. I prefer the vibes, for discretion, though I’ve got a sweet Tokyo Police Club ringtone as a noisy backup since I hate every phone’s stock ringers. So, how does your phone get your attention? More »
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