mother of all ringtone tools

For the last year or so I had been using a Sony Ericsson t616 mobile from AT&T equipped with Bluetooth, but I never really made much use of the BT except for transferring ring tones and backing up my phone book from my laptop. After AT&T merged with Cingular a few months back, I took the opportunity to get a free handset by switching. I grabbed the SE z500a, which I’ve been more than satisfied with except for its lack of BT or IrDA for file transfers. Ring tones are really not that important to me so I didn’t mind too much, plus editing files just to send to a phone was more time consuming than it was worth.
Then yesterday I came across smashTheTONES from smashsworld.com this is one of the best free services I’ve come across in years. Take any mp3 on your HDD, upload it to their site and they convert it for you to the ring tone format of your choice. They’ll edit the bit rate, the start/stop point and the length of the track and then send you a text message to retrieve the file automagically. All for free. FREE.
At first I was a little skeptical, being a bit on the paranoid side when it comes to handing out info, but the site was recently reviewed by the Screen Savers with flying colors; so near as I can tell this is just a cool, free tool with no strings attached.
$5.99 for a ring tone? No thanks.

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Post by: Brendan | February 20, 2005 | Filed Under everything else