The company that brought you Sarah Palintones, is now offering Blago Tones. Essentially, the biggest U.S. political scandal of the month, can now be shared with people around you in ringtone form. If you’re not aware of the scandal, here is what Huffington Post has to say about it:
The governor, accused of seeking cash for the political appointment of Obama’s Senate replacement, is not a close associate of the President-elect. Indeed, in the affidavit, Blagojevich called Obama a “motherfucker” for wanting him to appoint an official that the governor either did not like or wouldn’t receive money from. Local news reports, meanwhile, suggest that it was Obama chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel who blew the whistle on the governor.
The guys over at Phandroid have found a group of unused icons on the Android Market. The icons suggest that we’ll be seeing ringtones, wallpapers, and Google Checkout support in the near future. Expect all the ringtones and wallpapers to be governed by the carriers and therefore completely lame. As we all know, carriers have opposite of the Midas Touch. Everything they touch turns to garbage.
LG has been showcasing various LTE technologies and one of them was a WinMo phone running over LTE. The potential for LTE is amazing and it will definitely be the missing link for full video streaming and media capabilities on a device.
With LTE technology, users can download a 700 MB movie file in less than one minute at speeds of 100 Mbps. LTE technology would also allow consumers to simultaneously stream four HD movies without any buffering.
This is going to be an incredible advancement in mobile devices and LG are doing a great job of pioneering the technology. With over 250 staff on the research and development team, expect the first LTE devices to come from LG.
RMIT Bachelor of Arts (Music Industry) students enrolled in a semester 1 course entitled ‘Concept Development’ use audio software such as Ableton Live, Protools, Logic and Audacity to make sweet ringtones that are available for free to download.
Try the following ringtones for yourself. If you like them, click here for more.
Emma (click here to download) “I created this ringtone because I like ambient ringtones. It sounds good on my phone…so it should on yours.”
Kelly (click here to download) “I’m a classical composer, short film composer and violinist, doing music business at RMIT - for something different.”
Rhythmnus Runneris (click here to download) “… is a performer of beats, playing beats teaching beats and a lover of anything with deep groove and soul. Rhythmnus wants to improve all aspects of his musical groove and be the best Rhythmnus Runneris teacher of beats he can be.”
Alex (click here to download) “I am in RMIT because of it’s name for Creative Media. The portfolios look stunning. I’ve found the courses very practical and the University has proved to me that they are helping students to develop skills for the real world.”
Streaming radio on the iPhone is a great idea because it saves space on your device so you have room for other things like Zombie tower defense games. Radiolicious is a free downloadable player for iPhone users. Developed by MySimBook.com, the app will let you stream for free, any radio station that has signed up with the service.
Pandora Radio is the incredibly popular streaming radio program that makes intelligent guesses as to what songs you would like to hear based on preferences. The software was supposed to come embedded with the new LG Incite on AT&T, but a few Incite owners have said this isn’t the case. It could be that the promotion was prematurely made public before carriers could load the software. Stay tuned because Pandora will be available to download for other devices in the near future.
Along with the November 18th release of “I Am… Sasha Fierce,” Beyonce is making several of the tracks available exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers over the operator’s VCAST over-the-air music service. Beyonce will also be taking over the VCAST site between Nov. 14 - 18 by posting her favorite albums, songs, playlists and more on the main music storefront page. Fans can also text “Beyonce” to 8901 to download any of the exclusive titles.
Check out this killer app for the Android T-Mobile G1. Shazam! listens to music on the radio or wherever, analyzes it, and then tells you what song you’re listening to. The app was tested with a fairly popular band, Cake, and I’m curious how it would do with other genres of music and increasingly rare tracks. I guess it depends what database it’s pulling from. In any case, if you’ve got the G1, check this out.
If you’re like me, you use your phone for all kinds of things besides making phone calls. I watch videos, play games, surf the web, and listen to music almost constantly! So here are a few of my personal favourite audio and video applications. They are in no particular order as it’s difficult to pick and choose between them - they’re all very cool and useful in their own ways. So have a look through and grab a few and let me know what you think!
YouTones for the iPhone allows you to send your friends hilarious messages by recording your audio, mixing it and sending it to a friend. You can also use the same system to make ringtones!
I talked to the guys at Funmobility about making a video and they came up with this little gem. The video explains the YouTones service and the voice-over is amazing. I would really like you guys to listen to the video, because I’m trying to figure out who the voice-over reminds me of.
Check out YouTones on the App Store. It’s $4.99.
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