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.
[image c/o author screencaps]

Here’s a bit of early 2000 nostalgia. I’ve been re-reading Global Frequency, a series of graphic novels about ordinary human beings being called forth to do extraordinary things. There was a pilot movie adaptation from the comic books and one of the accessories that identified Global Frequency operatives was the mobile phone they carried – the pilot episode had a ring tone which became popular for some time.
So I downloaded it. You can find the Global Frequency MP3 ringtone download it.
[image taken from author's movie collection]

Here are nine selections of audiobooks which you can download for free and run on your portable player.
Here’s what’s up for grabs. Download them all!
The Babysitter’s Code by Laura Lippman
Super Goat Man by Jonathan Lethem
Best New Horror by Joe Hill
Great Day by Kurt Vonnegut
Fathers by Alice Munro
Truth or Dare by Elizabeth Burg
Ysrael by Junot Diaz
Merrano of the Dry Country by Louis L’Amour
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

A few days ago I was sent a product code that unlocks the full version of Audials Mobile, a S60 based application that seems questionable when it comes to music copyright laws. What it does is rather amazing: it scours the Internet Radio sites for songs and adds them to its database of over 70,000 songs. When you request for a song by typing in an artists’ name or searching for a particular genre, you’re given a listing of the most popular results. Audials allows you to download them. The disturbing thing is that the application is seamless and powerful, …read more

Skeptical as I was, I did try it and boy were my reservations put aside. The W230 is the cheapest mobile phone with good (read: LOUD) MP3 audio playing capability. The W230 is capable of playing up to 2GB of music via microSD card. Perhaps the closest reservation I had was the fact that it doesn’t use a 3.5mm audio jack for audio. Instead it used a 2.5mm jack for audio accessories. I realize that the inclusion of a 3.5mm slot is reserved only for the ROKR series, the latest one being the ROKR E8. Hence, this is why it …read more