Archive for November, 2007

Apple gives in

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Ever since Apple added the ability to put custom ringtones on their iPhone (for a $0.99 price tag in addition to the $0.99 you already spent to purchase the song), there has been a battle between the consumers and Apple. What if you wanted to put your own recording (say of your pet making noise, […]

Another time waster

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Using the computer last night and noticed the front left speaker wasn’t working. Odd, it used to. Fine, check the cables incase the fuzzball knocked something loose. Nope, they were all fine, speaker still didn’t work. Swapped the two front speakers. Nope, left one still didn’t work. Swapped the cables going from the sound card […]

Ringtones subject to royalty payments?

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Well, here is something I learned today. Apparently the RIAA got the US Copyright office to agree that any ringtone of a song is subject to royalty payments. This includes those monophonic or polyphonic ones that, well, sound like crud, but you generally get what the song is. I would have guessed that the 10-15 […]