Who says iPhone can only view Word documents?

At 22 Jul 2008 02:39:53 +0000 Larry wrote:

> > Maybe one of those sci-fi tricorder thingies from Star Trek?
>
> I discovered a little MP3 file that is the noise the communicator makes
> when they opened it. I substituted it for the sound effect Skype makes
> when it first boots up....on the Nokia N800 Linux Tablet. It repeats
when
> you click to make any of the various calls out....
>
> All in good fun....(c;
>
> Root access is a dangerous thing....


Just to try and "out geek" you, my Tilt's ringtone is the "ooo-wheee-ooo"
bosun whistle sound that the Enterprise shipboard intercoms made in the
original series. Beside the fun geek factor, it's a nice piercing sound
that gets your attention even at low volume in a fairly noisey
environment.

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On Jul 20, 1:04*am, David Friedman <[email protected]>
wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> *Todd Allcock <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > At 19 Jul 2008 19:12:17 -0600 Oxford wrote:
> > > "Todd Allcock" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > While useful, this is still a web app- meaning you have to have
> > connectivity
> > > > via cellular or WiFi to access and edit the documents, like with Google
> > Docs
> > > > or Live Office. *Good luck catching up with the office on the airplane!
> > > > ;-)
>
> > > yes, but most intelligent people have a normal macbook air for that.
>
> > Which, in a nutshell, explains why, despite your insistence, the iPhone
> > ISN'T the "most technologically advanced phone" on the planet.
>
> > Many other phones have the ability to substitute for a laptop. *That's a
> > feature I look for in a smartphone.
>
> And to link to a bluetooth keyboard. And to function as wireless modems.
> And, some of them, to function as a WiFi router while functioning as a
> wireless (3G) modem.
>

You can use the iPhone as a 3G web access point after jail breaking
it. You then tether your other device via WiFi.

Todd Allcock <[email protected]> wrote in news:g646mb$ehi$1
@aioe.org:

> Just to try and "out geek" you, my Tilt's ringtone is the "ooo-wheee-ooo"
> bosun whistle sound that the Enterprise shipboard intercoms made in the
> original series. Beside the fun geek factor, it's a nice piercing sound
> that gets your attention even at low volume in a fairly noisey
> environment.
>
>

Cool! I haven't got that sound effect. Can you post it to
alt.binaries.pictures.sports.ocean
the dead newsgroup we use occasionally for file swapping?

Thanks!

My current ringtone is an antique English telephone bellset....(c;

4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:ee3695af-fe68-4b23-bfbc-
[email protected]:

> You can use the iPhone as a 3G web access point after jail breaking
> it. You then tether your other device via WiFi.
>
>

.....voiding its warranty and any hope of getting it fixed when it goes tits
up....by the way.

At 22 Jul 2008 14:15:54 +0000 Larry wrote:

> > Just to try and "out geek" you, my Tilt's ringtone is the "ooo-wheee-
ooo"
> > bosun whistle sound that the Enterprise shipboard intercoms made in the
> > original series...

> Cool! I haven't got that sound effect. Can you post it to
> alt.binaries.pictures.sports.ocean
> the dead newsgroup we use occasionally for file swapping?
>
> Thanks!


I'm a usenet luddite- I've stuck to text-based readers and groups my whole
usenet "career"- I've never up loaded a binary to a usenet group in my
life!

You can grab it here, though (sorry about the word wrap):

http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/attac.../kyocera-7135-
downloads/2089d1046412415-star-trek-bosuns-whistle-bosun56.zip


> My current ringtone is an antique English telephone bellset....(c;

Nice!

Todd Allcock <[email protected]> wrote in news:g64vre$et1$1
@aioe.org:

> http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/attac.../kyocera-7135-
> downloads/2089d1046412415-star-trek-bosuns-whistle-bosun56.zip
>
>

Thanks! Cool sound. It's really loud on the Z6m's nice speakers.

I may add Scotty's voice to it calling Kirk or Spock...or make it repeat a
few more times so it will be sure to attract my attention.

You should just get Xnews from http://xnews.newsguy.com/
You don't need to buy anything. It's freeware. I'm typing on it now.
Posting to a newsgroup is as easy as sending an attachment in email, very
similar. Instead of sending to an email addy, you're sending to a
newsgroup.

Easy to learn from here:
http://abmefaq.net/XNews_Primer.html

Todd Allcock <[email protected]> wrote in news:g64vre$et1$1
@aioe.org:

> http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/attac.../kyocera-7135-
> downloads/2089d1046412415-star-trek-bosuns-whistle-bosun56.zip
>
>

Well, that didn't take long!......(c;

I have two parrots:
Zeke - a 28-year-old Yellow Nape Amazon I got as an imported chick.

"Roger-Roger" (yeah, he says it just like ham radio) who is a 9-year-old
Blue and Gold Macaw I raised from a 6-day-old chick from a friend who
breeds commercially.

Roger-Roger did it first, a perfect Star Trek Whistle, because I left it
playing in looping mode on Winamp for a few minutes.

Zeke finally decided he liked it, too, about 8 minutes later...(hey,
he's older.)

Now I can't tell when the damned phone is ringing because the whole
place sounds like Star Trek frantically calling for help....ad
nauseum...

The whistle is much easier than the telephone ringers, which took them
both a "few days" to "synthesize", having only vocal chords and a
beak/tongue as a synthesizer.

NOONE will sleep here after the Weather Alert receiver makes its beeping
noise alert. They both call that thing, incessantly, for hours, after
it goes off, tested once a week...

I may have to cover their cages to shut 'em up. Now they're "calling"
each other with the bosun's whistle!....

NEVER CURSE AT THEM in anger! They will repeat it for WEEKS!

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Hee hee....I just called the sellphone from the Skype phone. The
ringing goes on incessantly, even though the phone quit ringing.
They're still "calling" back to it...what a riot!

At 22 Jul 2008 20:33:09 +0000 Larry wrote:

> You should just get Xnews from http://xnews.newsguy.com/
> You don't need to buy anything. It's freeware. I'm typing on it now.
> Posting to a newsgroup is as easy as sending an attachment in email, very
> similar. Instead of sending to an email addy, you're sending to a
> newsgroup.
>
> Easy to learn from here:
> http://abmefaq.net/XNews_Primer.html


I tend to read Usenet from my handheld on the go- I rarely use a newsreader
on the PC, but I'll take a look, thanks.

Todd Allcock <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> At 22 Jul 2008 20:33:09 +0000 Larry wrote:
>
>> You should just get Xnews from http://xnews.newsguy.com/
>> You don't need to buy anything. It's freeware. I'm typing on it
>> now. Posting to a newsgroup is as easy as sending an attachment in
>> email, very similar. Instead of sending to an email addy, you're
>> sending to a newsgroup.
>>
>> Easy to learn from here:
>> http://abmefaq.net/XNews_Primer.html
>
>
> I tend to read Usenet from my handheld on the go- I rarely use a
> newsreader on the PC, but I'll take a look, thanks.
>
>
>
>
>

Well, then, maybe it's not such a good idea to try it. It's awful
addicting just downloading the movies and music presented here for free,
even discounting the obvious porn load. 38,000,000 MP3 files, >68,000
movies is an addiction, right?

"I couldn't help myself, your Immenseness! It was SO easy to just download
it all!"