Turns out this feature used to be built into iTunes, but Apple got greedy so they took it out so most people would just buy ring tones. While this is dumb, it's perfectly legal to create a ring tone for your iPhone using a song you've already purchased or an mp3 you already have in your library. It uses the 'fair use' clause of copyright law. Fair use is the same clause that allows you to use your DVR or make a mix tape all while 'copying' copyrighted content. It's totally legal.
I'm an engineer who doesn't care for a lot of fluff for fluff's sake.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Efficient use of wireless bandwidth
Michael Mace recently posted his second article about the impending doom of mobile executives. The article (and it's sequel) are very good summaries of the dire straights in which mobile execs find themselves. They are between the signature rock and a hard place, with either decision they make resulting in the probable loss of their career.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Best Hurricane Tracking Information
Living in the south and being involved in several hurricane clean up projects, i've acquired several useful links that i monitor during hurricane season to make sure i'm up to date on the current status of anything that may be headed our way. I figured i'd share this information with the world.
- Enhanced Infrared Satellite imagery: This is the best place to go to see what the current weather looks like. The link will loop through the last 12 hours of images.
- Atlantic and Gulf: http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_ir_enh_east_loop-12.gif
- South East US: http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_ir_enh_se_loop-12.gif
- RSS Feeds: NOAA provides RSS feeds on the current storms.
- Atlantic (no graphics): http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index-at.xml
- Atlantic & Pacific (with graphics): http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.xml
- Websites:
- National Hurricane Center: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
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