Doctor Who Ring Tones for iPhone
Right up front let me tell you that I don't have a link where you can click and download the ring tones. What I did was find some cool Doctor Who sounds embedded in a free game, and then I used some free tools to make ring tones and text tones for the iPhone. You don't need to unlock or jailbreak your phone. It's all easy and straightforward. You need:
- Doctor Who games (see below)
- Audacity (free audio editing software)
- an iPhone, iPad, or other iDevice running iOS 5.0 or later
- iTunes (the one that you sync your iDevice to)
So Many Stupid Mac Photo Apps
I've just spent about 10 minutes going through the Apple App store looking at photography apps. I wanted to buy snapseed for MacOS, but it gets mixed reviews. Just like Windows users have thousands of text editors to choose from, Mac users seem to have thousands of photo editors to choose from. And just like the Windows world, all but a handful totally suck. Why—for the love of all things photographic—do we need yet one more stupid app that does edge detection? Have you ever seen a famous photographer or artist publish something remarkable that he did with that cheesey effect!? Why does every photo app show it on their preview page?
Give me a real effect, not just the stupid things you can find in your graphics 101 book.
Vodafone Mobile Broadband UK 3G APN settings
I use a Vodafone K3505 dongle on Vodafone UK's network. When I upgraded to Mac OS X Lion, it broke my installation of Vodafone Mobile Broadband. I did a bunch of searching and I finally found what I needed. It was not easy. So, here's my quick blog post about what you need.
- The latest Vodafone Mobile Broadband, which can be downloaded for Mac or Windows. I found this from a Vodafone eForum post. When you install it, however, chances are that it will use the wrong APN name.
- Correct APN settings. Unfortunately, the instructions at this eForum post are wrong. It says use "PP.INTERNET" as your APN. That's wrong. Use PPBUNDLE.INTERNET.
I had to find this page full of APN settings and look up Vodafone UK. But it is also wrong. Only a comment lower down is correct. You need ppbundle.internet as your APN name and "web" for the username and "web" for the password.
Very frustrating.
Print a Bank Deposit Ticket with Excel
I do a lot of banking by mail—mainly depositing checks that I receive in the mail. I have run out of deposit tickets from the back of my check books, and I resent the idea of having to pay for more to be printed. I took a look online and didn't find anything particularly satisfying, so I made my own.
LeapFrog: My Own Leaptop
I hate the crapware that comes with modern toys. They try to make it seem like they're doing you a favor. They try to make it seem like it's going to make the toy better. But in fact it's just rubbish. It's poorly written and adds minimal value.