Sun, 01 Mar 2009
Ringtone!
I just did something that is way more exciting than it is technically novel: make my own ringtone that plays when people call my phone.
If you see me tapping desks or laptops or counter-tops rhythmically, usually I'm thinking of the guiro that starts out the R.E.M. song, "Electrolite." So I opened up the audio file I have for that song in Audacity, selected just the quiet part at the start, trimmed the silence, boosted it up 25 dB, and transferred it to my phone. (If you like, you can listen to that audio file.)
Once it was on my phone, the rather-neat Ringdroid app took over and helped me set it as a system ringtone.
Yay!
Twentieth century, go and sleep....
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Sat, 22 Dec 2007
Starting fetchvoicemail
I'm starting a new project called "fetchvoicemail". The idea is to have a little app that dials my voice mail, saves the messages, and extracts the metadata from the remote bot, and saves it all to local storage. That way I can write whatever UI I want on top of it. Think of it as POP3 for voicemail.
It seems there is already a commercial service that does this called "GotVoice Premium" that was reviewed by PC World.
So far, I'm in experiment and read mode. All I've yet discovered is that if you mess with ALSA settings, you make something strange happen so that your microphone doesn't actually record anything....
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