Tips by Category: Having Fun
Posted: 10/24/08
MOBANGO allows users to transfer up to 2GB of music, ringtones, wallpapers, applications, and games from your computer to your phone and share it with users all over the world. It is the perfect way to manage all of your media and keep it backed up. This completely free program also allows users to access and download other users’ content.
Posted: 10/17/08
The new Slacker Portable audio player has come to Blackberry phones. Once users create a list of their favorite artists and Slacker-genre stations they only have to sync their phones to their PC once. You are also able to create your own stations with your favorite artists and Slacker’s suggestions. Once the initial set-up is completed, the process of getting and listening to new music is done completely wirelessly. The service will be free with advertisements and a premium version is available ad-free.
Posted: 09/26/08
Can’t find the perfect ring tone to fit your personality? Well, with Phonezoo, you can create your own ring tone for free by uploading a music file to the website and choosing which part of the song you use. The ring tones get texted directly to your phone.
Posted: 09/15/08
Guitar Hero is available on mobile! Rock out with this rhythm-based game that’s true to the original. Open with 15 jamming tracks and grow your set list with more songs added every month. Shred as your favorite characters, on 4 Gibson guitars, in 3 killer venues.
Posted: 09/12/08
Subscribers to the popular DVD-by-mail service Netflix are in for a treat. A new feature allows users to send a text to Kwiry’s service with the desired movie title, and the movie is automatically added to the user’s queue! No more scribbling down the next hot movie you’ve read about or overheard some gossip on: just send a quick text message. The movie will be in your mailbox before you know it.
Posted: 08/01/08
Ghost Town is an interactive text novella from Virgin Mobile and YouthNoise, presented in text message format, with each message as a separate chapter and scene, the story of a teenage football player called Ghost who is hiding the secret that he’s homeless is entirely readable on your cell phone.
Posted: 08/01/08
PhoneSaber made by TheMacBox is an iPhone 3G App that lets you live out your Jedi fantasies through your cell phone. PhoneSaber shows a small lightsaber handle in the lower-center part of the screen with five different color choices on the left. The application uses iPhone’s motion sensor to generate the appropriate sounds when you swish or chop at the air.
Posted: 07/16/08
A bald eagle’s cry. Squeaky chirps of baby emperor penguins. The Center for Biological Diversity offers these endangered species’ sounds—and many more—straight to your phone as ringtones. They might just provide you with a great starting point for talking about the plight of threatened species worldwide.
Posted: 07/16/08
Zagat’s ranking may only get published once a year, but Buzzd, a new “mobile lifestyle platform,” provides rankings about restaurants and events in “your town, your time.” The mobile service lets users find and share events, rank them and find out what their friends are doing. As of late June, Buzzd had 1.2 million venues in its system.
Posted: 07/16/08
Zkout (pronounced Scout) is a new social network that follows you. It allows you to send notes, pictures and chat with friends based upon their geographic location. With Zkout you can also find out what is happening in your area.
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