You've got time to cut and save one ringtone on your Android phone, but what about three or ten or twenty? If you're too busy to edit a bundle, check out Sharetones 1.0 beta, a new app that takes a clever twist on the concept of ringtone sales.
We'll leave you to our First Look video for the details, but let's just say it's legal and lightening-fast. Best yet, for a limited time, it's also free.
Our product manager Justin sent me a link to Kipkay's YouTube video on hacking apart a 9-volt battery into six AAA replacements. So, I had to try it for myself.
A 9-volt battery is actually made up of six 1.5-volt cells. Those cells are actually quadruple size, but you can make them work in AAA compartments.
Watch this video to see how. With some needle-nosed pliers, pry apart the casing of the 9-volt battery. As long as you're careful not to puncture the cells themselves, there's nothing harmful inside. Once you get it open, pull off any casing that's holding the cells together and you should get a sort of sausage string of cells.
Clip those apart, but leave some of the connector metal on each end of each cell. When you put them into a AAA compartment, bend the metal over to give you the extra room and conductivity to make them fit.
You may or may not be saving money here, since the cost of a 9-volt battery does run roughly 6 times as much as a single AAA. But in a pinch, the 9-volt battery could come in handy, just don't expect to use it as a 9-volt battery any more after you do this.
Also via Kipkay, The Energizer brand of A3 12-volt batteries can be pried apart to reveal eight button-cell batteries, useful for watches and other devices. Here you're saving money: the 12-volt is a couple bucks and each of the button cells can run about $5.
That's it for now. Be careful if you do this, by the way. Don't want you slicing up your hands or the batteries. Use proper protective measures.
Documents To Go (with and without support for Microsoft Exchange attachments) is one of our favorite applications for turning your iPhone into a home office. But it's not anywhere near complete and it has some formidable competition in the form of Quickoffice Mobile Suite, another premium offering.
If you're in the market for a document editor and creator, this video will give you a peep at what Documents To Go can offer in its first application release.
This time we got clever. You see, because we're examining a 90 day period, usually the results don't change very fast. So we thought--a-ha!--since we're off on Friday, July 3 in the U.S, we'll be superefficient and shoot the search terms video early so we get ahead. What could possibly go wrong with that plan?
Well, let's see: Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, Billy Mays, and freaking Michael Jackson all died between the time we shot and the time we published, which is today. A quick check of Insights yesterday did show that only Michael Jackson has broken into the Top 5 searches. So most of what we shot is still accurate.
In any case, please watch the video with that timing in mind, and know that the next time we shoot, we'll make sure we publish much closer to shoot time. Oh, and don't forget to come back here after watching to answer the trivia question and win the lame prize. There are five chances this time!
Update:STILL nobody has it. OK, here's a few hints. It's the *fastest rising term* for the three months through June 18th. It's something American. If you do the search March through May, you'll find it in the top 5. If you do the search April through June, it takes all of june and throws off the results.
Go to Settings, then General, then Keyboard and turn off autocorrection. You can turn off autocapitalization, too.
Also while you're there, you can turn on or off the option for a caps lock key and turn on or off the option to make double tapping the space bar type a period--good for typing Web addresses quickly.
Here's how to take control of time in your iPhone.
Go to Settings, then General, then Date & Time. Turn on or off Set Automatically. You can also have 24-hour time, like they do in Europe and the Army.
Here's how to turn on autofill in the new iPhone firmware.
Go to Settings, then choose Safari, and then choose AutoFill.
You can choose whether to use info from your contact list or previous names and passwords you've entered. This can really speed up filling out forms in the browser.
You need to have an app installed, like BeeJiveIM, that uses notifications.
Then go to settings, then notifications, and turn on notifications.
For more precise control, under notifications, you can go into a particular apps settings and choose to have notifications by sound, text alert, or having a number badge show up on the app's icon.
Technology never, ever, ever lives up to our expectations. No matter how much promise a gadget has, there's always a small level of disappointment. But some products have let us down a lot more than others. Sometimes it's the fault of the manufacturer's overhyping their wares, and sometimes we just dream too big.
Watch our video of the top 5 biggest tech disappointments, then come back to this page and answer the trivia question for a chance to win the army of small Jar-Jars.
The Internet is full of threats like cross-site scripting attacks and clickjacking. A lot of these attacks work by injecting scripts in Web pages that you don't even know are there. You can give yourself a modicum more protection by running a Firefox plug-in called NoScript.
NoScript blocks all scripts from running until you authorize them. Let me show you how it works.
Go to addons.mozilla.org and search for NoScript or get it from Download.com. Install it as you would any add-on. Once you have it installed, look in the bottom right corner at the little S with the cross-out symbol.
Clicking on it brings up a submenu that lets you choose how to handle scripts on the page you're at. The safest way to go is not to allow any scripts. You'll never fall victim to code that doesn't run.
But some sites won't work without scripts so, the next safest thing is to temporarily allow only the scripts you need or trust. A lazier and slightly less safe method is to temporarily allow all on a page.
The next more convenient level, but also less safe is to permanently allow scripts individually or all for a page. This becomes necessary for things like your Bank's Web site or Google Docs where you don't want to constantly allow scripts every time you launch your browser. If you permanently allow scripts from a site, you're putting your trust in that site that it will never allow itself to be infected by a malicious script.
The worst thing you can do is globally allow all scripts. You might as well not run NoScript at that point. If you have allowed a script on a page and you change your mind about it, you can always choose forbid, to start blocking it again.
Running NoScript means you're going to have to do a bit more thinking about pages you surf to. It was enlightening when I first started running NoScript to see which of my banks and utilities worked just fine without scripts and which became disabled. If nothing else, NoScript gives you more control over what risks you expose yourself to on the Net.
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