Jordi Romkema

It's easy to turn on the TV and get bombarded with ringtone commercials. I normally create my own ringtones from downloaded mp3's with Adobe Audition, but I understand that for the average phone user it's not that simple and they have to get them elsewhere. Some of you pay for your ringtones, but why pay if you can get it for free? That's probably the same thing the creators of Nakko.com thought when they launched their site. On Nakko you can download not only free ringtones but also wallpapers, movies and games.

When you are a registered member you can add stuff in your locker which you can download later on. When you download ringtones you can send it to your phone with a text message. Or you can download the ringtone to your computer first and then send it with Bluetooth or a connection cable to your phone. It seems like you can only download WMA files so I had to convert them to MP3 first for my phone, but it worked and with just a few clicks I had about 20 ringtones on my phone! Check out my profile on Nakko.

Uploading your own stuff is fairly easy and intuitive with the Nakko editor. You upload your mp3 file and then you can drag markers to the part of the song you want to create a ringtone from. I suspect the ease of uploading and downloading content attracts a lot more people in the future and Nakko will become very successful.

Now I was already familiar with Seeqpod and Songza where you can find music with just a few clicks, but today I stumbled upon Songerize. It's basically a search engine for music, just like Seeqpod and Songza, however it has virtually no options and plays the song you are looking for automatically if it's found. Easy to use if you're looking for a song in a hurry with just one click and that's the main reason why I like it.