Who doesn’t like How I Met Your Mother? People have been asking for the title of the song in the intro of the series so here you go — perfect to edit using RingTone Studio 2 and turn into a tone.

In any case, here is a link to Hey Beautiful by The Solids. The familiar theme from How I Met Your Mother starts at the last 30 seconds of the song but with the guitars as accompaniment.
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No surprise that engineers smoke. And with that thought, it is no surprise that mobile phone engineers integrated a cig lighter similar to the ones we see inside cars. Obviously, fire and gadgets aren’t each others best friends so you might wonder how the hell this came to be. It sure does drain the battery life if you think about it, and I can’t even begin to comprehend what type of degradation lighting this up regularly can do to the insides of your phone.

Of course, there is an alternative … it’s called a “lighter” and it costs less than a …read more

Say hello to the Jumpstart Sport: yet another portable charger for your mobile phone when it runs out of juice in the most unexpected places. What I like about the charger is that it fits like a charm around your mobile phone emulating that piece of decor you always wanted to dangle. Here are some of the other features:

A rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery pack that comes with cable and connectors for a series of popular cell phones, for smartphones including the iPhone or Blackberry, handheld game devices and even portable GPS devices. Users will never have to run out of power …read more

Many months ago I forced myself into an opportunity to learn how to manage my finances. What it was – a social experiment of sorts with a journalist friend who had me consult a financial planner and see whether this would bring about any behavioral change in my spending habits.
After a few meetings with my new (free!) financial planner, we narrowed down our goals to the following: to have at least 2 months salary worth of liquid income in case of emergencies, to verify my newly acquired investment insurance policy, to get independent health care (I was a freelancer) …read more

I’ve always meant to write about this but I keep on forgetting as it seems to trivial. But in truth, it isn’t. A long time ago I wrote a piece about the “pink” in gadgets. And the recent unveiling of Apple’s colors of the rainbow + pink marketing campaign for the iPod brings to light how much detail Apple puts to color.

I’ve never seen mobile phones exhibit such vibrant colors. And yeah, even gadgets in general.
Many years ago a cult bag brand called Timbuk2 was founded. It’s core selling points were durability, practical use, and was made fit for …read more

Heads up! I heard Chuck Norris is coming this way!, screams the rebels as you play as Chuck Norris. Gameloft had mentioned that Chuck Norris was in a “weakened state” as he traveled around the world and got into an accident. So not like Chuck Norris, but fine, we’ll play along. But if Chuck Norris hears about this ….

Chuck Norris: Bring on the Pain is out NOW by Gameloft. It plays a side-scrolling hack and slash and shoot and gun Chuck Norris as he goes around the world cleaning up the bad guys and sending them into “Retirement +10.”

I first …read more

So I dropped my phone (yet again) square on the pavement yesterday. I had barely noticed the small chip on the front plate of my Nokia N82’s real estate due to several phone calls that came in. The calls were a huge distraction to the apparent sinking of the lower 1/3 of my phone’s keypad. This made text messaging a bitch the following day (I fell asleep inside the cab and didn’t touch my phone the entire night).
I think the way we treat our mobile phones sort of reflects the way we treat our health. I recently got a huge …read more

SMS is catching up with the west. Back here in the east, couples buy secondary phones to avail of unlimited SMS promos within cellular networks. What does this mean? For the high maintenance couples, it says something about wanting to be in touch 24/7, and have no excuse NOT to text back.
But it also means that couples do rely on SMS as a significant means of communication, rather than making actual phone calls.
I’l ask you now – how many SMS messages do you send a day to your loved one, compared to calling. Back here, the price of 8-10 …read more