Monday, January 12, 2009

Patch Tuesday and Mobile News

WINDOWS

Tomorrow is Patch Tuesday - time to consider updating your Windows operating system and other Microsoft programs. This month, however, there is only one major patch.


MOBILE PHONES

For those of you who browse the Internet from mobile phones, here's a hint to help with some sites. A lot of sites out there have not created mobile friendly alternative websites. Thus you have to wait a long time while the entire page is loaded to your mobile phone, which in turn may suffer from memory problems. There are two services out there that have come to the rescue: one of which is Google (surprised?).
First you will have to open your browser to one of the following sites:
http://google.com/gwt/n
http://finch.ploogy.net/

Then enter the URL, or the Internet site you wish to go to. Finch actually strips almost all information out except for text. Google leaves some of the formatting. Anyhow you can give  them a try and see which you like best. 


Finally, I have some requests about ringtones for mobile phones. The website Audiko.net is a great resource to upload your favorite song, choose the portion of the song you want to be your ringtone, crop it, create the ringtone and then download it back to your phone. Any song that has been used on the service remains downloadable, btw. So you might want to first see if a tune you like is already there.

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