{"id":196,"date":"2007-09-13T07:50:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T12:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/09\/13\/1189687802368.html"},"modified":"2007-09-13T07:50:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T12:50:02","slug":"blogentry-free-ringtones-whats-the-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Free Ringtones : What&#039;s the Big Deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has a new feature for the iPhone.  See a song on iTunes that you like?  Click and turn it into a ringtone!  The only problem is that you have to pay 99 cents for the song, and then another 99 cents for the privilege of making it a ringtone.  Who is the ad wizard who thought that one up?  Or was that one for the &#034;We&#039;ll give it a shot and see how many people actually do it before the bad press gets too overwhelming&#034; pile?<\/p>\n<p\/>Naturally this has started up a flurry of &#034;How to get free ringtones for your iPhone&#034; articles, which in turn has spawned  articles for &#034;Get free ringtones even if you don&#039;t have an iPhone.&#034;<\/p>\n<p\/>Over a year ago I simply got a phone that actually <b>supports MP3 ringtones<\/b> (a Motorola v360, to be specific).  And then it was a simple matter of <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.morinfamily.com:8888\/blog\/pages\/motorola_v360_custom_free_mp3_ringtones.html&#034;>getting them on the phone<\/a>.  Easy easy.  My ringtone is <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.shakespearegeek.com&#034;>Shakespeare&#039;s Sonnet 18<\/a> (&#034;Shall I compare thee to a summer&#039;s day&#8230;&#034;) as sung by David Gilmour, of Pink Floyd.  The uber-cool thing is that my 5 and 3 yr olds can now both sing that song, referring to it as <a href=&#034;http:\/\/blog.shakespearegeek.com\/2007\/08\/my-plan-is-working.html&#034;>the song that Daddy&#039;s phone sings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p\/>I suggested that my 5yr old sing it for her new kindergarten teacher, but then it dawned on me that her teacher would probably have no idea what she was hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has a new feature for the iPhone. See a song on iTunes that you like? Click and turn it into a ringtone! The only problem is that you have to pay 99 cents for the song, and then another 99 cents for the privilege of making it a ringtone. Who is the ad wizard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,5,11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-family","category-news","category-shakespeare","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}