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Question: How do I turn songs on my computer into ringtones for my blackberry?

Answer 1: It’s actually very easy. Once you create the small files for ringtones – you simply use the BB desktop software to move them to the ringtone folder.

Answer 2: My brother in law pointed me to tuneusin.com – Go there, click ringtones, not ringtone settings, just ringtones. browse through them. They are great funny excellent, and of course crappy at turns. play one, click save and save as a ring tone. Once you have it click it again in your ringtone list and select at ringtone for the phone.

Answer 3: Download audacity – a free sound editing program. Open a song file you might have. You can use audacity to select a loop and crop it. About 10 seconds long. Save that as an MP3.

Connect your blackberry to your computer, open Blackberry desktop software and open the media manager. You can use that to copy the new MP3 ringtone you created to your blackberry’s ‘ringtones’ folder. Now you should be able to use it on blackberry as a ringtone.

Question: I’m sick of not having Slingbox mobile so I want to switch to get a device that is compatible. Right now, I have the blackberry 50something something, the one that came out before the curve and its great. Any suggestions on what I should get that is similar to my blackberry and slingbox mobile compatible? My service provider is AT& T
Thanks

Answer 1: Get the blackjack. I have it and it works well, as long as you are in a 3g area. I have ATT also.

Answer 2: They say Slingbox will be available on blackberry by end of the year but I wouldn’t count on it. Sling announced back in January that it would be available for Blackberry by the end of the year but there’s been no update whatsoever since then. Their silence says a lot.

Answer 3: Slingbox Mobile works on any windows media phone or palm. Blackberry has been “coming soon” for more than a year. The Treo 800 just came out and slingbox is adapting to that winmo 6.1 device.

Answer 4: It’s not blackberry – It’s Slingmedia. They are the ones that need to come out with the software that can run on blackberry. And no, it doesn’t work on the iphone either. Unlike with blackberry, Slingmedia hasn’t announced any plans to come out with an application for the iphone, which is unfortunate because it would be amazing to be able to watch on that phone.