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]

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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]

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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

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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, it’s scary that something like this exists. So I asked them if its completely legal and let me quote their answer:

Audials Mobile records the files from social web radios – this is legal, but only for private use. This means, you can use the files on your cell phone and copy them to your PC, MP3-player etc., but you are not allowed to share the files.

Audials from jayvee Fernandez on Vimeo.

Songs are recorded into the S60 enabled mobile phone, and can be shared to your collection as MP3’s. There is NO DRM copy protection whatsoever.

Audials Mobile is the only software that allows you to download the best MP3 music the Internet has to offer from the newest generation of social radio stations. It’s like taking candy from a baby! With Audials Mobile, your cell phone will be bursting at the seams with the latest pop, rock, rap, hip hop, metal, electro, trance, techno and music from many other genres as well as the latest hits from the charts. Music recording of radios is legally and free! [AUDIALS SITE]

Scary. Stark. Potent.

I did a quick Google search for Audials but I get no queries from actual blogs or other sites that have reviewed this service. Not sure how new this application for mobile is. Has anyone used this before?

[photo from Audials.com site]

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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 is called the “W” of “wow so cheap!!” series.

More features after the jump!

The special feature of the W230, apart from the very loud and crisp audio is sharing your FM radio station via SMS to others. You can also record 1 minute worth of FM radio and turn it into your alarm or SMS alert.

Oh and last but not least, the Motorola W230 is priced at PHP 2,490.00 or roughly USD $50.00. That’s without a subsidy plan!

Though it may look a bit cheap (heck it really is cheap!), it still delivers in terms of performance. Motorola’s consumer studies show that in terms of features, the camera has been moved down to number 3 with a preference for music as the second most important feature on a phone. First of course is the calls and SMS.

Features:
MP3 Player (Motorola MP3 player)
FM Radio
128 x 128 65,000 color screen
Long 10 hour battery life with 19 days of standby
File transfer Drag and Drop software
WAP 20 Dual Stack / GPRS Class 10

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