The other day my friend Jason Glaspey showed me how he made an Excitebike ringtone with MakeiPhoneRingtone by actually ripping audio from a Youtube video, pulling it through and audio editor then finally dropping into MakeiPhoneRingtone to be able to put it on his phone.
Being the NES nerd I am, I remembered how to rip music from NES games directly. So now I’m going to show Jason up by sharing 28 different NES music ringtones for your iPhone. These are all AAC files that you can drop into MakeiPhoneRingtone, which will make them immediately available as ringtones that can sync up to your iPhone.
I’ve broken the collection up into 4 separate zip files, and I’m calling them NES Ringtone Paks 1-4. I’ve covered most of my favorite tracks from about 20 NES games. Here is a list of all the ringtones:
NES Ringtone Pak 1:
- Blaster Master Area 1
- Blaster Master Area 2
- Goonies 2 Theme
- Castlevania Level 1
- Contra Level 1
- Double Dragon
- Excitebike
NES Ringtone Pak 2:
- Kid Icarus World 1
- RC Pro Am Opening
- Legend of Zelda Overworld
- Little Nemo
- Metroid Spacey
- Metroid Zebes
- Mike Tyson’s Punch Out Workout
NES Ringtone Pak 3:
- Mega Man 1 Elecman
- Mega Man 2 Boss Selection
- Mega Man 2 Opening
- Mega Man 2 Wily
- Mega Man 2 Woodman
- Super Mario Bros. 1
- Super Mario Bros. 1 Out of Time
NES Ringtone Pak 4:
- Super Mario Bros. 3 Powerup
- Super Mario Bros. 3 Star
- Super Mario Bros. 3 Underground
- Wizards & Warriors 1 Castle
- Wizards & Warriors 1 Low Energy
- Wizards & Warriors 2 Air
- Wizards & Warriors 2 Fire
If you have any requests for other games, leave me a comment below. Enjoy your NES ringtones!
If you live in Portland you’ve probably heard already: Greg Oden, the Blazers’ #1 draft pick this year, just got sidelined for the entire upcoming season due to knee injury.
There’s lots of “I told you so!”s going around right now, but poor Greg Oden hasn’t said much about it.
Well here’s your chance to give Oden a voice: check out OdenRant. You can also let Kevin Durant chime in.
Thanks to Jason for busting out a great Photoshop job, and Instrument for hosting the site.
Last week I went to a show for one my favorite bands, Rilo Kiley. It was part of Music Fest Northwest, an event here in Portland that takes place over the course of 3 days. Basically you by a $40 wristband and you can pick between 100s of bands playing in multiple venues across town.
One of the opening bands was Grand Ole Party from San Diego. I’d never heard of them before, but I liked their sound, and their lead singer had a great voice (AND she played the drums!). When their set was over and we were waiting for the next band to come on, I kept reminding myself the name so I could check them out when I got home. Then I remembered, I had my iPhone with me. I could get any kind of information I wanted about them on the Internet.
When I was younger I went to tons of concerts and saw opening bands that I might have liked to check out. Back then I’d have to remember the name, or write it on my hand, then head to the music store to try to find their CD…and it most likely would have not been available anywhere but the most obscure indie music store, which back then I had little access to. In the end it was just too much of a pain in the ass.
Like it or hate it, Apple’s iTunes has been largely successful. Now they are introducing the iTunes Wi-fi Music Store, which will allow people with iPhones and iPod Touch devices to purchase music directly on their device and download it on the spot. Had this been available at this concert, I could have very well went to the music store, listened to their music, bought the album and listened to it before the next band came on. On the flip side, if I didn’t like their music by listening to the samples, I can decide not to buy the album.
I believe easy mobile access to music from anywhere is the future of music…and the future is here with Apple’s iTunes Wi-fi music store. When people don’t have to think about how to find music they want, and just go onto their device and get it, they are much more likely to be okay with paying $0.99 for a song or $12 for an album without much complaint. I know I am, and I’m excited to try it out.
This subject has been beaten to death, but I’ve only recently been the victim of RSS overload. I often get overwhelmed by the amount of stuff I have unread in Google Reader, enough that sometimes I’m afraid to open it. Eventually I just say forget it and mark everything as read. While I’d like to read everything, I just don’t have time. Some days I can sit for an hour and read, and even then I don’t make a dent.
I partly blame some sites that feel the need to post 10+ items per day, even on the weekends. It could also do with the fact that I am subscribing to more feeds than I should.
How do you deal with keeping your unread RSS items in check?
I use the Spotlight feature in OS X an awful lot. While some people would rather use things like Quicksilver, I like just hitting command+space and typing in what I’m looking for, be it a document or even an application I want to open.
That’s the inspiration for AJAX.search, a search system built on Prototype’s AJAX framework. It will make a call to a URL you specify and display the results under your search box like Spotlight (and now, like the search at Apple.com). From there you can hit the up or down arrow keys to select a result and then hit the enter key to visit the link.
I also built a Wordpress plugin that uses AJAX.search in the default search box, and in fact you can test it out on this site’s search box right now. By default the plugin will search all your posts and display them in the results grouped by category.
If you want to try it out on your Wordpress install, you can download the plugin here. There are still features I still want to implement, and it may not work on all Wordpress versions (I’ve only tested on version 2.2.1). Eventually there will be a configuration page in the admin to allow you to change a few settings, such as number of results to display and whether to show categories in the results.
Download the AJAX.search Wordpress Plugin version 0.1
If you’re using K2: make sure you turn off Advanced Navigation in the K2 options, since K2 has an AJAX search function that will collide with this one. If you want to keep Advanced Navigation on, you’ll have to comment out the Javascript in the K2 header file that sets up the K2 AJAX search.