Tashanna sent me a link to a great website full of free ringtones. It also lets you create your own ringtones from an MP3 file or URL. The coolest part is that you can even enter in a YouTube URL and it will create a ringtone out of the audio from the video. It then lets you cut up the audio file into the segment that you want.

There is quite a range of free ringtones available and so far I have not found any that require payment. You just download them directly from the site to your PC. I tried it from my BlackBerry but that sadly did not work. They supposedly have a mobile version of the site in the works.

Check it out at www.audiko.net and let me know what you think. If you know of any other good resources let us know!

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Gareth pointed out this funny post on IntoMobile that I had to mention.  Turns out that some team at North Carolina State University is working on printing solar panels onto jackets & ties. These will supposedly allow you to charge your cellphone just by standing in the sun… I can’t say that I would be caught dead wearing such a thing but I definitely got a good laugh from it. Maybe I can convince some of my green loving friends to look into this renewable energy source.

via IntoMobile via Talk2MyShirt

Eric pointed out this application by Concrete Software that we had not mentioned before. Turns out that Concrete has released yet another Golf scorecard application for BlackBerry. Talk about a crowded market. Links Scorecard joins GreenFinder, IntelliGolf Eagle, mScorecard Golf, and the free Wireless18. I guess quite a few people are playing golf and tracking their games on the berry? If you are interested there is a free trial and you can pick up the application for $9.99 at the store.

Product Description:

Links Scorecard not only has easy-to-use screens to record your golf scores, but has the ability to store any number of courses, keep any number of games, and show statistics of individual games or graph them over any period of time. The screens are very easy to use and allow you to setup courses and their tees ahead of time. With the elegant scorecard screen you can then quickly enter your scores and any other statistics you may want to track.
Links Scorecard™ also has the ability to keep many statistics to analyze over an individual game or graph over a period of time. The scorecard screen also uses colors with circles and squares around your scores to look just like the professional scorecards.
Features:

• Amazing looking score card screen. You can impress everyone with your score displayed on your new digital score card.
• The score card highlights eagles, birdies, and bogies.
• Very easy to use screens and menus.
• Easy setup of golf courses, allows any number of new courses to be added.
• Allows you to keep individual tees for each course.
• Allows you to go back and view/edit completed games.
• Ability to keep statistics:
• Whether the ball was hit on the fairway.
• The distance off the tee.
• Whether you shot on the green in regulation.
• Sand saves.
• Up-downs.
• Number of putts.
• Penalties.
• Each statistic can easily be enabled/disabled.
• You can see a graph of statistics over any period of time.
• You can graph games on a particular course.

A friend of mines BlackBerry was having problems with its profiles and I thought it might help to use BlackBerry Desktop Manager to clear the Profiles database. Turns out that this is not that easy on a device hooked up to a BES! All of the BES synchronized databases are grayed out in the selective/advanced restore options which means that you cannot restore or clear them… For the calendar, contacts, & tasks you can fix this by turning off the wireless sync but you don’t have this option for all the other databases on your BlackBerry.

I thought I was up a proverbial creek until I ran across some great instructions by Lamlamz on how to get around this restriction. Turns out there are two solutions. One requires cooperation from your BES admin and one you can easily do by yourself.

With the help of your BES admin:

1. Use BlackBerry manager to find the BlackBerry user
2. Right click on the user and select Edit
3. Select PIM sync and change “Automatic Wireless Backup Enabled”
4. Then hit apply
5. Do your selective restore or clear and then set Automatic Wireless Backup Enabled to True.

Without the help of your BES admin:

1. Go to settings/options->Advanced Options->Service Books and select the Desktop [Sync] service book
2. Click the menu button and select delete.
3. Then do your selective restore or clear from your desktop
4. Then disconnect your BlackBerry and click the menu button on that same service book and select undelete

Big thanks to Lamlamz for the solution!

When I read about this site on WapReview I had to mention it. Mike created a free site using MobileSiteGalore which lists the FBI Most Wanted Fugitives. This is the same list they have published around the country. The developer also added the most wanted terrorist, missing children, murders, and quite a few others. Very entertaining to pretend you are a bounty hunter during your down time. You never know. With the reward money offered for some of the people on the Most Wanted list you could buy yourself a good couple Bolds…

Check it out at www.fbimostwanted.mobi to check it out.

Sally sent in this interesting link on Google’s Mobile portal. It looks like they are compiling the scores and information about each Summer Games category. They even have a cool mobilized version of the news if you click the link on the bottom of the page…

Check it out by heading to this link on your BlackBerry or for more options check out the list of recommended mobile sites from RIM.

A friend of mine pointed out the mobile version of MSN’s website to me and I was pleasantly surprised to see that it actually looked quite good on my BlackBerry. Obviously I have some gripes like the video not working but that is to be expected since the site is targeted at Windows Mobile users. It has some great content including weather, news, sports, finance, & entertainment. Its especially useful if you like MSNBC, Fox Sports, and Microsoft search.

Its very nice and clean which is really impressive considering how old school RIM’s mobile.blackberry.com website looks in comparison.

Check it out by heading to mobile.msn.com from your BlackBerry.

Frank just let me know that the Jawbone II has dropped a bit more on some major retailers. I know quite a few people who have been waiting for the price to go down so this is a welcome turn. The two places I have found with it at this new price are Newegg & Amazon.

• Amazon currently has the black version for ~$105 with free shipping
• Newegg has it for $99.97 with $6.95 for shipping

Let me know if you find any other deals!