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• Ray Luebbert on the post How-to: Turn your favourite mp3 into a ringtone:
  One semi-important detail that this article skips over: Most often, the ringtone one wants is a clip from somewhere in the middle of a song. What that means is that the simple task listed above could potentially get a little more involved, but the result is the "perfect" custom ringtone. Tools: Sound file editor Estimated time: For the first time, with no experience, perhaps 5 minutes for the install and 20 minutes for the edit. After that, probably about 5 minutes for your next edit. The sound file editor part is easy. I Googled "free audio editor" and found this: http://www.free-audio-editor.com/ Most likley there are more sleek and/or easier to use editors out there. After the download and install, simply: Start the program Open the sound file Save the sound file under a new name (like Macarena_Ringtone.mp3) Listen to the song to find the timestamp for the begining and end of the desired segment. Usually it is ideal to pick a clip that is 5-15 seconds long, but never more than 30. Delete everything after and then before the chosen section. Save it again, making sure to keep the file size (sound quality) on the lower end. Now you have a slim and trim mp3 ready to become your favorite ringtone. If this doesn't work the first or second time, no worries. Remember how you DIDN'T overwrite the original mp3? Just try it again!
  
  
• Ray Luebbert on the post Video: HTC Fuze aka HTC Touch Pro review:
  Attack of the Angry Apple Nerd! In trying to over-accentuate perceived flaws, Ritchie simply makes himself appear incompetent and unstable. As a spokesperson for iPhone, he certainly emulates Jobs’ temperament. As a reviewer of a product, he seems about as qualified as Denis Leary reviewing a vegan Indian restaurant.
  
  
• Ray Luebbert on the post How to fix Internet Connection Sharing on the Blackjack II:
  After using my wife's spare Blackjack II for a couple of weeks in between the Tilt and the Fuze, I can't imagine being able to put up with a WinMo non-touch screen again. From time to time when we travel we turn on a data connect package for one of our spare phones (Samsung a737 I think). It doesn't make sense (for us) to tie up our main lifelines (cell phones) with the laptop. Maybe that's because the laptop is more of an afterthought.
  
  
• Ray Luebbert on the post How-to: Get Wikipedia on your phone without an internet connection:
  With the only real option for internet use on an AT&T smartphone being unlimited, data is no object, for me at least. The typical scenario is that my wife and I are in the car, she sees something on the side of the road and asks me about it. I then say, "why don't you wikipedia XXXXX?" If her iPhone (boo, hiss) batery life isn't too drained, she looks it up and we have a fun conversation while we get to where we're going. Alternately, we're at a restaurant, and some question comes up. I'll type in the search string in the SkyFire box on my Today screen and presto, before she's corrected her iPhone typos, I'm already at the right website to find the answer. Oh, and if that page has flash, I get to laugh at Apple's incompatibility. In short, I am such a Wiki nerd that I sometimes spend hours just clicking one link to the next, reading as I sit at my desk and and watch Twitter go by.
  
  
• Ray Luebbert on the post Can Windows Mobile pull up its socks?:
  While I agree that WinMo has been dragging its feet, it has been due to the fact that an outside influence needed to catalyze the marketplace into recognizing many of these unfulfilled needs. However, this catalyst emerged over a year and a half ago in the form of the iPhone announcement. MS is not driving the technology forward, quite the reverse, consumer demand is trickling up to manufacturers who in turn request updates. MS has been a great dampener to progress. However, because the other options have been so much worse, it has been able to stay ahead, until now. With Android in the market place, open-source hounds can be appeased at the same time as technology sophomores are given easy access to a soon-to-be sleek app store. The technology inept can certainly go the Apple route, where all the choices are made for the consumer already. The app store: I don’t really favor it for myself, but I am heartily in support of what it represents. It means easier access to apps for novice users. That means better apps available for everyone. Cloud-computing: That’s why I use SkyFire. Other apps SHOULD be doing this, but few are. The OS could be too. Mostly this is not happening because MS hasn’t encouraged it. The touchscreen: I have an extreme loathing of everything Apple. However, the iPhone has a couple of key characteristics that I hope to see in the marketplace as a whole. Touch is good, multi touch is better; the gestures like pinch and spread make sense intuitively. As a result, the browser and photo viewer have a tremendous advantage when compared to these functions on other devices. MS doesn’t really have any functions that are designed for finger access. Everything is designed around the stylus, though a fingernail will do most of the time. The bottom line is that I have no love lost for MS, and would jump ship to a better option in a heartbeat. Right now there isn’t one, but soon? Perhaps.