Getting my phone to do new things

I've been experimenting with a data cable to get photos and new ringtones into my phone.

Configuring the cable was a bit tricky, but it works great now.

Then, formatting pictures for the phone wasn't too bad, although I found that after using Irfanview to resize, I had to use Paint to load/resave to get the phone to "see" the photo.

Finally ringtones. First, I found that my 2125i Nokia uses MIDI. I tried moving a few files on to the phone. It kept saying "the file is too large", but after removing some file manipulation, there was success!

Simpler MIDI compositions work best, although I am working with a MIDI sequencer called Jazz++ to try to shoehorn new tones into SP-MIDI format. I'm very happy it's open source! So yes, I'm finally into the ringtone craze! The sounds of Knight Rider and Ms. PacMan are revived, along with Brick, one of my favourite tunes.

I'm also trying ConvertRingtones, an online conversion tool. This site works great! Now I have Stephen's last night in town.