Long Zheng has discovered that Windows 7 includes 10 ringtones in the “%ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Ringtones” folder. He also was kind enough to convert them to different file formats so that you can use them on your mobile phone. You can listen to the ringtones below, go to istartedsomething.com to download the individual files, or click here to download a .zip file of Long’s MP3 files.
In related news, Microsoft has released three official Bing ringtones celebrating the launch of its new search engine. You can also listen to those “bingtones” below or visit microsoft.com to download them.
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If you’re like me, you’ve amassed a collection of CD’s and MP3’s over the years. For some people its quite a large collection, for others its just a few songs. But regardless of how many songs and audio files you may have, wouldn’t it be nice to access them from any computer anywhere in the world? Yea. I would too.
Well, its all possible if you are using a cross-platform program that I just discovered yesterday called Subsonic Music Streamer. Its unbelievably easy to setup, and absolutely free! And for those of you using Fisher-Price toys otherwise known as Mac’s there is a version for you as well. Some other features:
- Listen to your music from anywhere – all you need is a browser.
- Assign ratings and comments to albums.
- Supports MP3, OGG, AAC and any other audio or video format that streams over HTTP.
- Transcoding engine allows for streaming of a variety of lossy and lossless formats by converting to MP3 on-the-fly.
- Control Subsonic from any mobile phone or PDA, using the WAP interface.
- Users must log in with a username and password. Users are assigned different privileges.
- Use HTTPS/SSL encryption for ultimate protection.
And there is lots of other features that are mentioned on Subsonic’s website. Like I mentioned before, Subsonic was extremely simple for me to install. I had attempted to install some other kind of music streaming software (I forget the name) months ago, but gave up after I got lost in configuring databases, etc. Not so with Subsonic. It was over before I knew what happened. If you are using Windows Vista, try it for yourself using the following steps. Read more…
Over time I’ve gradually been signing up for different birthday clubs, and as a result I’ve gotten all kinds of special coupons, free food, etc. these past couple of days. Anyway, here’s a list of them in case you would like some free stuff on your birthday. 
Ohh.. yes… my birthday is on the 15th of February in case you are wondering.
Needless to say I was quite surprised at receiving a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate with Service Pack 1 at the Windows Server 2008 launch event this week. It was definitely worth going.
