Friday, May 25, 2007
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Something Works!
I'm always amazed when something works as advertised. Especially in the PC/tech gadget world. I've been around the block long enough to know I end up having to do everything at least twice, and then many free/great ideas just don't pan out.
I wandered across a Free Themes site that has a bunch of mp3 and mid songs for download. I was specifically looking for the Robot Chicken theme and found a couple variations. Awesome. Of course, they're mp3 files and my Treo 650 doesn't play mp3s as ring tones out of the box. Sucks. Reading around, it looks like I need a $30 program called Ringo to let me do this. Yeah, right. Um, no. Using mp3 ring tones sounds cool, but not worth $30 for a phone I'm growing to hate to fill a void that's standard on anything new. At the bottom of some random page I found a like to some freeware that's supposed to do this for me. And to the theme here, I fully expected many things. Any of the following, really: bogus software, corrupted downloads, uninstallable files, huge application that won't fit, and then it wouldn't do as it promised.
Surprise! It actually works. The program is called MiniTones and you download a prc file that installs easily through the Palm Desktop app. Then the program shows up and does as promised -- lets you crop mp3 files it finds and add them to the ringt one list. Simply amazing.
I wandered across a Free Themes site that has a bunch of mp3 and mid songs for download. I was specifically looking for the Robot Chicken theme and found a couple variations. Awesome. Of course, they're mp3 files and my Treo 650 doesn't play mp3s as ring tones out of the box. Sucks. Reading around, it looks like I need a $30 program called Ringo to let me do this. Yeah, right. Um, no. Using mp3 ring tones sounds cool, but not worth $30 for a phone I'm growing to hate to fill a void that's standard on anything new. At the bottom of some random page I found a like to some freeware that's supposed to do this for me. And to the theme here, I fully expected many things. Any of the following, really: bogus software, corrupted downloads, uninstallable files, huge application that won't fit, and then it wouldn't do as it promised.
Surprise! It actually works. The program is called MiniTones and you download a prc file that installs easily through the Palm Desktop app. Then the program shows up and does as promised -- lets you crop mp3 files it finds and add them to the ringt one list. Simply amazing.
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