Tuesday, July 25, 2006

La Cittá di Dork

(Dork City)

OK, so I was fooling around with Garage Band and my iTunes library and in honor of my finding my cell phone (yes, it was lost, AGAIN!), I give you this:

The ring tone I “made” for my razr.

anthem

Anyway, it’s super easy to make your own ringtones out of music that you already own. Make a copy of the track (assuming it’s an MP3 or unprotected AAC), drop it into GarageBand, cut and paste the part you want, re-import the cut down version back into iTunes, re-sample the thing down to 64 kbps MP3 file, download the “song” to your bluetooth enabled phone and tell your phone to use that as the ring tone. Easy-peasy!

(OK, maybe that’s a whole lot of steps and maybe it is kind of complicated, but it’s not really that hard, trust me.)

The notion that T-mobile (or any ol’ cell network provider) is really going to make much money off ring tones is pretty silly. I know that they want me to download exclusives tracks and ring tones and what not to my phone, but it’s just never going to fly with someone like me. For one thing, I’m too savvy about such things, frankly and will just make my own (as clumsily attempted above). Second, I’m cheap and paying $1.99 for DRM locked (way more locked up than iTunes Music Store muzak), it’s just silly. Plus, iTMS tracks only cost .99¢ and they are better quality and all that. T-mobile really just wants me to burn minutes and use their network for, like everything. Just be a phone company, please. And stop dropping my calls at the east end of 45th South here in Salt Lake and I’ll be happy, OK? That’s a dead spot and it’s been a dead spot going on FOREVER!

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If you are new around here, the following entries have been reasonably well received. You might want to peruse these.

• Partners
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• RNT Product Review: Chocolate Mix Skittles Left Me Sterile!
• Jon’s Report Card circa… A Long Time Ago
• Dear Gratuitously Naked Conversationalist at the Gym:
• A Peek Inside the Writer’s Guild and Producers’ Negotiations
• We Regret the Error
• Letters from a Homeowner to His General Contractor
• What I Did There
• Hermaphrodite Administrative Assistants and Receptionists Need Not Apply
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• Official Ransom Note Typography Vista vs. Mac OS X Shootout
• I Need a Real Hobby
• Beat Down
• Big Fat Lies
• True Love
• Now MY Ovaries Hurt
• Don’t Get Her Started
• Disturbing Trend
• Had to do it
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• Ransom Note Typography End User License Agreement “EULA”
• Diva-licious!
• Just so we’re clear
• PETA may have a point

Holy Crap! Look at all this STUFF down here. It's awesome!

Really, I'm glad you made it down here. Almost no one ever comes down here. I'm like in a freaking dungeon down here. I get lonely. But not you. YOU made it all the way to the end of the page. For this I think I've a little crush on you. I don't know, is "love" to strong a word to use in this situation? Well, if it's not "love," then it's very strong "like." I'm totally in like with you for coming down here. You are awesome. Please love me back! I know, I know, I shouldn't be all needy, it's not attractive at all, but you don't know how it is to be stuck down here. Who scrolls all the way to the end of a page anymore these days? Anyway, thanks for shedding some light down here in the depths. I appreciate it. Shoot me an email and I'll send you a dollar, OK?

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