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Sending Ringtones To Verizon Phones

by Shane Holden on September 3, 2009

I’ve always tried to avoid the ringtone sites where you choose your carrier, enter your phone, and let them send it directly to your phone because I never feel like reading the terms to see what kind of hidden charges there may be.  It turns out that sending a ringtone via email to your phone is just as easy, and saves you any chance of being charged.  I’ve tried this in the past, and was unsuccessful, and I believe this is completely due to the cellphone address I was always trying to send it to.

First, the .mp3 file is supposed to be less than 200kb to be used as a ringtone.  Since we know the size limitation, you could either crop a song or tune to the specified section you want, or just download already created ones online.  Attach the .mp3 file to an email, and email it to your phone.  The address that you have to send it to for Verizon phones is yournumber@vzwpix.com, NOT @vtext.com.  From there you’ll just receive the text message with the attachment, and apply it as a ringtone.  Applying the ringtone is probably going to be different for most all make and models of phones, so you may need to check your manual.

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Texts I Find Annoying

by Shane Holden on August 6, 2009

I see the convenience in text messages as well as the privacy they carry, especially if you are maybe at work or out with some people that you would rather not hear half of a conversation with someone else, but I think some texts are sometimes on the annoying side.

Those would be:

  • Messages that span more than the 160 character limit of a single text.  These conversations would be less time consuming by just making a phone call if at all possible.
  • Bulk texts—sending messages back to back within seconds that look similar to: 1. Hey! 2. Whats up? 3. What are you up to today? 4. Want to meet up for lunch? 5. Let me know!
  • One word replies, ex. okay, sweet, cool, yes, or any of the like.
  • Forwards—the occasional one is fine, but when they start getting sent in bulk, three or more back to back, they become annoying.
  • Follow-up texts to texts that were just sent.  If you’re asking me a question, please give me some time to respond.  Sending a message saying “?” or “so…?” just minutes after asking a question is just annoying.
  • Mass messages—sending the same message to multiple people asking something like “want to hang out tonight?”  When you know that the sender is going to be getting quite a few replies back and will choose which sounds most appealing to them.

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Text Messaging

by Shane Holden on January 17, 2008

Has everyone noticed how unbelievably popular text messaging is now?

Now I understand how useful it can be at times, but I have friends that do nothing but text message now.  I’ve got one friend that went with us to Florida, and I swear he was on his phone text messaging the entire trip.  I don’t even think he knew we were in Florida :lol: Seriously, every one of my friends would rather send a text message than call now.  And I’m not just talking one or two texts to say something, but 10+ texts to say something that could be said in a 1 minute phone conversation.

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