January 14, 2008

Blogs 4 Borders Video Blogburst

In this weeks edition…

Open borders groups demand: Don’t tell the truth about the invasion!

100% Preventable! More Americans sacrificed to open borders.

And civil rights: who gets’em?

And yes, that is one of our smoke detectors beeping in the background! Apologies if it’s annoying.

This has been the Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst. The Blogs For Borders Blogroll is dedicated to American sovereignty, border security and a sane immigration policy. If you’d like to join find out how right here.

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Cool Cell Phone Apps at Cellware

As a web site, Cellware is still in it’s beta version but from what I have seen at the site, you couldn’t tell. It seems to be in full release to me unless they are going to be adding more features.

Cellware is a free portal for mobile downloads such as ringtones, wallpapers, video, games and applications.

In addition to being a download site you can also set up a profile and it starts looking more like a mobile social networking sort of place. Pretty cool actually. When you first sign up for a free account through Cellware it lets you invite your friends from several different services to come check it out, including MySpace, Friendster and Facebook. You can also import contacts from your webmail services as well.

Aside from the content that they have (and lots of other web sites have as well) there are several things that seem unique to Cellware. You can create your own ringtones right on the sight by uploading a file. Any music or sound file that’s on your hard drive can be uploaded and turned into a ringtone. Once it’s uploaded you use their ringtone editor to select the 20 second portion of the file that you want to keep, enter some information so that you can identify it and then save it. Then you just download it to your phone or even share it with your friends.

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I have used several different sound editors to create ringtones from mp3’s in the past and it can be a pain. You have to get it the right bitrate and length and then use a program like Bitpim (which voids your warranty) to copy it over to the correct place in your phone’s file system. Cellware makes it pretty easy.

You can also use their mashup editor to mashup two different ringtones. You can put them end to end to make one long ringtone, or you can actually overlay the two. Very cool, particularly if you have an instrumental and a bit of cool spoken text or verse you want to combine. Another pretty neat option is to use their text-to-speech editor to turn text into a ringtone. They also have ringtones that contain your name or that of your friends. Nametones. Personalize your friends ringtone to the max.

One thing I did notice while browsing the Name Tones is that there are quite a few of them on the site. It would be nice if they would add links to each letter. It does let you jump five or six pages at a time, but that’s not exact. It also doesn’t let you change the view to alphabetical. It seems to be listed in order of upload rather than anything else. Of course I may just be slow on the uptake too. Their IS a search function. Once I searched for my name I managed to find four ringtones that contained it. Vain, aren’t I? Once I located the one I wanted and previewed it right there in my browser I then navigated to their WAP page from my cell phone browser, entered the download ID number and got it right on the phone.

Cellware has a pretty cool image editor as well to create and share your mobile wallpapers as well. It lets you add special effects, rotate and crop your images and then send it to your phone.

One thing you may want to check out is the fact that Cellware bases their business model on sharing their site revenue as well. As you create and upload content they share it with the content creators.

You can set up in your profile to view (or not view) certain content as well. Initially when you first sign up it only lets you see “G” rated content, which is a great thing if you have kids or teenagers that might access your account. You can choose from “G, PG,R and X” for your content viewing pleasure if you want to get a little racy with your downloads.

As more and more web sites are created as or convert to mobile sites for cell phone and smart phone use, the mobile content available will continue to improve as they have over the last couple of years. Go check out Cellware and see what I mean.

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Irritating People

I received an email when I got home where someone used the “contact me” form on the site. I guess someone didn’t like something I reported in the Maria Lauterbach. That’s OK, I post plenty of things that are disagreeable. Here’s the message they sent,

So when you become a female, complete USMC boot camp and walk a mile in Maria’s shoes then you and all the other web wonders can make your assessments. Until then lets just say you haven’t a clue.
Anonymous Shortbus Motherfucker

If you can’t tell, I find it extremely irritating that this fool from Wisconsin doesn’t have the guts to leave their name, email address or URL. Hell, I don’t mind if you don’t agree with me. I love a good argument as much as the next guy. The real problem here is that the email they sent me has nothing whatsofuckingever to do with anything that I wrote about Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach.

I guess that’s about all of the steam I am going to use up on this. If you can figure out how to use the captcha you are more than welcome to join in the comments and try to say something intelligent.

 

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