Heh, ringtones. I’ve seen lots of comment spam being obliterated by Akismet with a ringtones theme.
But, this is not comment spam! Just like the zedge.no post I did a couple of months ago, I’ve been using Polyphonicringtonez.com to get my dose of loud and irritating ringtones (Including really cool Pacman and Super Mario Brothers themes!).
If you can navigate past all the ugly ads and popups and what not, they have a search engine for free and paid-for ringtones, backgrounds, operator logos, etc., a lots of which have previews for your PC browser.
You choose the ringtone you want, hop onto your phone’s WAP browser, browse to http://www.polyphonicringtonez.com/wap (I really do suggest bookmarking that page, it’s rather a pain to have to type that URL every time…), choose “Ringtones by ID”, and punch in the ID of the ringtone you want, and voila, a downloaded ringtone for your phone. Tada!

Most of those ringtones even work on my Nokia 6100… They support most phone brands and models, and even have some ringtones in the MMF format (not sure that that is, my phone only supports Midi…) But, I suppose most of the newer phones nowadays support straight .wav or .mp3 files, so midi ringtones aren’t that popular anymore… *shrug*

Tags: Akismet, zedge, ringtones, Pacman, Super Mario Brothers, backgrounds, operator logos, WAP, Midi

Minimum Requirements:

• CPU: Athlon 64 3000+/Intel 2.8ghz
• Graphics: Nvidia 6600/X800GTO (SM 2.0)
• RAM: 768Mb/1Gb on Windows Vista
• HDD: 6GB
• Internet: 256k+
• Optical Drive: DVD
• Software: DX9.0c with Windows XP

Holy crap!!! The above is from the Joystiq entry on Is your PC rig ready for Crysis, who in turn got it from the Crysis Online forums… This is insane!!! This is why I’ve given up upgrading my PC, rather favouring playing games on a console, or playing games on my PC that fit into my lowly specs. I don’t have a crap PC, an AMD64 3000+ and a Geforce 6600GT PCI-Express card with 1GB ram is nothing to sneeze at, but it’s now become the minimum requirements for a game? That’s just sad.

If you haven’t heard of Crysis, then you need to crawl from under the rock you’ve been living under, and go check out the several gameplay footage videos of Crysis over at Google Video or Youtube.

Tags: Crysis

Google just opened up a large number of access points for free wifi access to testers. Not sure where digg.com got these details from, but holy intarnets batman! That’s a whole lotta access points! The link takes you through to a Google Maps interface showing the access points and coverage holes in the Mountain View, CA. area.

read more | digg story

UPDATE (2006-08-02): OhGizmo was a bit slow on the uptake of this story, but they have a nice pic of an access point stuck to a lamp post. I wonder if that’s an actual Google AP or just a stock photo or something. Either way, I wonder how long those access points will stay up there? Here in Cape Town we had a security camera stolen off of a lamp post within a day or two of it being stuck up there… Can’t think it’s any different anywhere else in the world? People steal anything that’s not super glued to a bulldozer…

Tags: Google, wifi

Mwahahahaha.
The guys over at Penny-Arcade are brilliant. It’s amazing how sitting around and chatting about your day can actually transform itself into a brilliant comic strip like they do…
‘Forgot your password‘ links and ‘Secret question’ mechanisms for instance. It makes for a good comic strip.

Tags: Penny-Arcade, comic

Hehehe, great game this.
Haha, thanks to Matthew, I have a new friday-afternoon timewaster!

Check out Tetris 1D.
What’s *your* highscore?

Just found this while catching up with my bloglines feeds…

How to crop images (and make your photos look awesome) [via Lifehacker]
Take your photos to the next level by learning how to crop them properly – that’s right, cutting things up actually can be a good thing. The Digital Photography School has a fantastic tutorial on how to crop images and make your photos stand out from the crowd; instructions include learning how to cover framing mistakes, finding balance, and experimenting with new formats.

I’m sure I’ll learn how to do this at the Apple do tonight.

Tags: photos, crop, framing mistakes

In Nintendo Monopoly, Mario is Boardwalk
This one is for all the Nintendorks out there. When you’re not playing Nintendo’s video games, you’re probably doing one of three things: cosplaying as famous Nintendo characters, quilting yourself a blanket featuring your favorite Nintendo characters, or wondering why those same Nintendo characters don’t permeate every other facet of your life.

Heh, Nintendork is a bit of a harsh word, but hey, it’s not my word.

The pictures in the link above look very good, I’d love to play that. Reminds me of both the Star Wars Monopoly [amazon.com] that a friend of mine bought years ago, and also a Lord of the Rings version of Risk [lordoftheringsrisk.com] that I saw when the LotR movies just started appearing at the cinemas… They were both a bit pricey for me, but I suppose there are some people that would buy it just to have it.

I wonder whatever happened to my Stratego [more links here]. That was a great game. Could never get anybody to play it with me though. *sigh*
Ooooooooh, searching for links about Stratego, I found this site that has a fully playable downloadable version of it called The General (Shareware unfortunately). Cool! Would be a nice game for the Nintendo DS I think.

Tags: Nintendo, Monopoly, Nintendorks, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Risk, LotR, Stratego, Nintendo DS

haha.nu – interesting findings over the net – Escher in Lego

That is so cool! Thanks Bretton for passing on the link.
Great work that. I love Lego.
What’s Escher? Look at the Wikipedia article on Escher.

Tags: Escher, Lego

With E3 happening round about now, I wanted to keep up to date with the E3 news as it came down the wires, and my current RSS reader (I’m using thunderbird’s RSS folders thing, and then also bloglines.com) is set to update only every hour or so, so I wanted something else.

Back when I was still running gentoo on my desktop PC, I was using KDE, which had a nice newsticker that could fetch RSS feeds and tick them at the bottom/top of the screen. Now that I’m running Ubuntu, which uses Gnome by default, I wanted something similar that the KDE newsticker. So a googling I went. I found a rather poor attempt at a ticker for gnome, which adds an applet to a gnome panel. Not bad, but not quite what I was looking for. Then it struck me! I’m using Firefox! Some more googling, and I found this:

RSS Ticker Firefox Extension
RSS Ticker is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser that scrolls your live bookmarks (also known as newsfeeds/RSS feeds) across your browser, a la a cable-news style ticker.

Clickety-click, installed. Restart Firefox and voila! An extra panel at the bottom of the browser, which reads your Firefox Live Bookmarks (RSS-in-a-bookmark-format), and tickers them across the browser window. It can open the items in a new tab for you, and it can hide the items you’ve already read. Gotta love it!

Tags: E3, RSS, Firefox

Just saw this on T3.co.uk. Datel (the same company that brought us all those Max add-ons for all our favourite consoles, see their goodies at www.codejunkies.com), just announced a sweet Media Player add-on pack for the Nintendo DS, all with 4GB storage that fits into the GBA slot, and can play movies, music, etc. For 130GBP. It’s a good price, if a bit on the expensive side.

I personally own both an M3 Adapter(m3-sd) and a SuperCard(sc-sd), both of which come with software to convert movies to a playable format on the DS. I’d have to say that the DS’s screen size and screen quality just don’t compare the the PSP’s, and I wouldn’t want to use the DS to watch any kind of movies on. I’ve tried the M3 Adapters movie converter, and the end result is really bad. REALLY bad. If you truely want a gaming platform that can double as a movie player, then rather get the PSP. But there’s just no beating the DS’s gameplay for a lot of its games.

Tags: Datel, Nintendo DS, M3 Adapter, SuperCard, PSP