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In the beginning they were known as The Pale Ones, and later Meld. Today we know them as Slipknot – the famous band from Des Moines, Iowa. Over the years there have been many changes in the lineup, finally settling on 8 people. After the death of Paul Gray, Shawn Crahan is now the only founding member still in the band. Another member, Corey Taylor, is also working on a full album with his other band Stone Sour. With a tour lined up for June of 2012 in the U.S., a lot of Slipknot fans (hardcore fans are typically referred to as ‘maggots’) are excited to see them back in the US – They have been in Eurpoe for a year.

Slipknot Live

One of the reasons Slipknot was so successful early on was because they often performed extreme stunts – like 30 foot stage dives or setting themselves on fire . To this day they use elevated stage areas and very high powered pyrotechnics along with other neat tricks. Most fans love the high energy and chaos you get at just about every Slipknot show.

My Favorite Slipknot Tracks

With 5 albums, if you include the demo Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat., there are so many favorite tracks I could name. I tried to condense my favorites into a top 5 list, but when I realized that was too hard I did 10 instead. As a teenager I used to listen to these hard rock songs all the time – but now I only listen occasionally. I tried to include all the albums on the list, but I never really got into the demo track to give it a good listen.

1 Wait and Bleed

2 Spit It Out

3 Duality

4 Vermillion

5 Before I forget

6 Disasterpiece

7 The Nameless

8 Psychosocial

9 People=Shit

10 Pulse of the Maggots

Album Number Five

There are many rumors of a new album in the making, but without the support of Corey Taylor it is going to be very difficult for the band. Slipknot has proven to have a good ability to adapt to new and changing members constantly so maybe it won’t be a problem. One of the member stated that about 17 songs were already written for the album, but Corey conflicted that statement saying that no songs were written as of now. The band seems to want to go ahead without Corey, since he might not want to be a part of the new album anyways.

Since Dubstep went mainstream around 2007, new bands in the genre are popping up all over the country. Benga and Coki “Night” were a hit in the UK charts in 2007, and also Britney Spears’ “Knockout” that year had the unique to Dubstep wobble. Newer 2011 Dubstep favorites include Katy B “On A Mission”, Skream “Shot Yourself In The Foot Again”, and 4 of the songs on Rihanna’s new album, Rated R, are considered Dubstep.

The signature characteristics of Dubstep include wobbles in the bass, rewinding, and not following the typical four-to-the-floor pattern. Lots of Dubstep songs have a slow motion feel, because the percussion will go 71bpm while the sub-bass follows at 142bpm. Kode9, a popular Dubstep artist with a Ph.D. in philosophy, noted while observing people listening to a Dubstep track, “[they] have internalized the double-time rhythm, the track is so empty it makes [the listener] nervous. You almost want to fill in the double time yourself, physically, to compensate”.

The wobbles in the bass are caused by manipulating an extended bass note with a low frequency oscillator in order to manipulate the key parameters of a synthesizer; distortion, volume, and filter cutoff. There is already a sub-genre of Dubstep called Brostep. This was dubbed by the English clubbing scene because of the emphasis on the bass wobbles in certain bands.

Some Dubstep artists are also know for using futuristic sounds, syncopated rhythms, or incorporating tuplets. While other songs include the famous techno “bass drops“. When the track slows to a silence and then is brought back with more intensity than before.

All the sounds come together to make a new and unique dance music. And most people will recommend, the louder the better with this genre. If you want to see some pretty good Dubstep dancing, check out the Les twins via YouTube below.

You may be shocked reading the title above, but is there any truth to it? Yes, there is. Mobile phones have been shown to potentially cause cancer. But how can we be sure?

Several prominent organizations, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the World Health Organization (WHO), recently did research on the effects of cell phone radiation and whether it could lead to cancer or not. What the NIH discovered was a 50 minute call on a mobile phone increases the brain glucose metabolism in the area closest to the antenna of the phone. NIH determined the tests inconclusive because they were unsure how the increased levels of glucose metabolism affect people.

In the fine print of your mobile phone’s manual you can find a Specific Absorption Rate (SAR). The SAR measures the amount of RF (radio frequency) that is absorbed by the human body. US laws say the SAR must be under 1.6, but in the UK the SAR can be up to 2. The WHO found evidence of increases in glioma and acoustic neuroma brain cancer for people using mobile phones against non-users. As a result in May 2011, WHO labeled mobile phones in the same carcinogenic category as lead, chloroform, and engine exhaust. Uh oh.

Mobile phone companies are doing research of their own pertaining to the radiation emitted, and if it can lead to cancer or other health problems. Most of research conducted by the mobile phone companies show radio waves sent out by cell phones to be completely harmless. The Journal of the American Medical Association claimed that if you are touching your cellphone to your ear while talking, then brain tissue around the radiation area uses 7% more energy. In children the percentages were drastically higher. But, as all the other research, they are unsure what this may cause in the short or long term.

In your cell phone manual you should see a warning in the small print about keeping your phone so many inches away from your ear while in use. It usually says at least 1 or 2 inches , but the safest is a minimum of 3. Some manuals even have a caution that states parents should limit use of cell phones in children under 10 years old.

The main cause of the radiation is your mobile phone connecting to a mobile tower from your phone provider. Radiation occurs more frequently during mobile calls compared to texts. And keep in mind the less service bars you have the harder your phone has to work – which makes the SAR higher, and that means more radiation is being emitted,. The SAR also goes up when you are traveling while talking on the phone, because your cellphone is constantly having to find new towers to connect to when moving. Making the SAR levels spike every time your phone locates and starts using another tower.

Texting, using speaker-phone, or using air tube headsets are some lower radiation alternatives to putting the phone close to your head, but don’t completely eliminate the risk of cancer. Bluetooth equipment is not in the safe use category because wearing it in your ear all day could lead to more exposure than an occasional phone call. Agencies are suggesting not to keep your mobile phone in your pockets or clipped to your pants either.

Now that you are in “the know” about mobile phones emitting radiation that can lead to cancer, please tell your family – especially any relatives with a young child, whose thin skulls allow for deeper radiation penetration into their brain.

There are several ways to send MP3′s to your phone, but for the purpose of this post I’ll just talk about the two methods I prefer.

Method 1 – Using email to send MP3′s to your PC

I am assuming you already have downloaded the MP3 you want to send to your phone. If not, do that now. Then, follow these simple instructions to send your files to your cell via email.

Email is one of my preferred methods because it is free. I should note that using email to send files to your phone is NOT ALWAYS FREE. If you get charged to send/recieve text messages, you will be charged the standard rate (usually .3 or .5 minutes per text message). If you have free text messaging, using email to send to your phone will be completely free. It may be hard for some people to figure out at first, but once you have it down it’s easy as pie.

Step 1) Navigate to the ringtone on your PC

Step 2) Get on your cell, and send a text message to your email address. Just put youremail@provider.com in the “TO” box.

Step 3) Login to your email, and open the text message you sent yourself.

Step 4) Attach your MP3 to the email (I would recommend no longer than 400KB, which is around 30 seconds of high quality audio), and hit send. You may have to hit send twice.

Step 5) Get back on your cellphone, and view your text message that you sent from your email address.

Step 6) Listen to the the MP3 you sent yourself while on your cellphone. Is it playing clearly? If so, then it has been sent correctly. Now you need to save the MP3 to your phone, and then set it as a ringtone.

I’d recommend having a different ringtone for each of your 10 most often talked to contacts.

If your having trouble still, see our Support Forums.

Method 2 – Use a USB cable to send MP3 files to your cell

This method is my #1 preferred method. USB cables for phones aren’t free – but they are cheap. You can settle for the cheaper ones, as they work just as well as the more expensive ones. USB cables are essential because they allow you to send any files between your PC and phone, quickly and easily. You can send MP3′s, WAV’s, M4R’s, Wallpapers, Games, Ringtones, among other things.

So now for the simple walkthrough for using a USB cable to send MP#’s to your cell.

Step 1) Plug your USB cable into your PC, and your phone.

Step 2) Verify you have a connection by navigating to “My Computer”, and locating your cellphone.

Step 3) Open your cellphone from ‘My Computer’, then proceed to find the location you want your MP3 to go. If you want a ringtone, then find the “Ringtones” folder.

Step 4)

a) If your Mp3 is on your desktop and you want to set it as a ringtone, simply drag it into the “Ringtones” folder. Done!

b) If your MP3 is in a folder, open the folder, find the mp3, and then drag it to your ‘Ringtones’ folder.All finished!

And thats that! If you have any questions, feel free to look around our Support Forums for an answer. If you can’t find an answer, please start a new thread and one of our ringtone doctors will get back with you shortly.

Alternatively, you can see our FAQ to read our Frequently Asked Questions, with answers.

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This hassle has seen the one of the worst of internet frauds, with some sites asking for personal information only to involve you in identity theft and other financial issues you didn’t and wouldn’t expect. Well, there doesn’t have to be a hassle every time you want to personalize your cell phone, and you don’t have to give up the bucks either. You can just as easily get free ringtones online that don’t send you through a million and one steps just to get one measly tone or nothing at all. Instead you get full control over what you choose and what you download, as well as how you search, with no cost at all right here on Brinked.

Making Your Own Music Tones For Free

Today’s hype about ringtones has a lot to do with customization, with most people today seeking something that is more personal and that is more of what they want to hear as opposed to what is available. There are many sites today that exploit this trend, and even charge a great deal of money through membership fees and often times scams, offering to provide a ringtones for free but instead charge you.

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Well, the  truth is that you don’t have to pay for ringtones. You CAN get them for free.  Our ringtone maker lets you create your own ringtones from any music files on your PC – and even YouTube videos. This means you can have a 30 second ringtone of your choice. Completely customized by you. What more could you want? Here’s a video (no sound, sorry) to walk you through the process. Be sure to note the “Download: MP3 / W4R / WAV”  near the end of the video.

Here at Brinked, we offer the highest quality ringtones – 100% free. We are proud to have the loudest ringtones anywhere on the web. We are able to provide these ringtones to you, completely free, because we are an ad-supported website and make enough money displaying ads to maintain the site and pay for server cost. If you try us, and enjoy our service, please share our site with your friends.

Today’s ringtones are offered in .MP3, .WAV, and .M4R – otherwise known as true sound or real music tones that offer a much better sound to the ringing of your phone.  Whether you are looking for your favorite song or the best quote of your favorite celeb, there are definitely a lot of options out there to choose from. So what are the popular bites for the summer’s tones this year? There are several new tones that you can get right here on Brinked, with options that aren’t available elsewhere that even allows you to add a tone of your own creation or one that you have uploaded to your PC.

Top choices for the summer include:

- E.T. (Futuristic Lover) by Katy Perry
- Super Bass by Nicki Minaj
- The Show Goes On by Lupe Fiasco
- S and M by Rihanna
- On the Floor by Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull

This is just the lineup that is already on the site, with the option still open to upload your own. You can choose from the most downloaded tones, whats hot now, or to the most recently added ringtones.

Brinked offers a bit of something special, with free ringtones that can be added, created, and input into your cell in order to give you the best sounds for your mobile. You will be able to embrace the summer with some great music that doesn’t sound primitive and isn’t going to get on your nerves. In most cases, you will likely find yourself singing along or even dancing to your cell phone, with the option to change your ringtone as freely as you want and with the tones that everyone is looking for this year.  Is it a new song you are interested in? Or perhaps you have something that you have been working on and wish to create your own tone? No matter what the case, there is  something offered that you want from Brinked.com that will allow you to personalize your cell phone perfectly to the music that gets you going day by day.

All genres are offered and there are even tutorials offered to ensure you can properly install the tone and hear it on your phone the next time someone gives you a call. You can even get some created in order to add to your friends’ phones so they can think of you even when it isn’t you calling on the phone. Don’t hesitate to make your phone a summer hot spot with the great choices available on Brinked and the great options to make your own tones you can sport proudly.

The whole idea of having a cell phone is to stay in contact and to be able to reach others at all times.  So what happens when you find yourself in that all too common scenario where your phone is dead and you are stuck in an area where your charger is useless? Fortunately, charging your phone is not limited to the charger alone and you have a far more versatile option available to you.

USB to phone cables are the solution when there is nothing else in sight.  In today’s times, just about every person with a cellphone also has a computer nearby.  You simply the USB to phone cables, connect it to your computer and you have a simple and easy solution to what seemed like a pressing problem.  Also known as a data cable, it gets plugged into the USB socket on your PC or MAC, giving you five volts of uninterrupted power to charge your phone with.

Once you plug in your phone, you can transfer your pictures, video files, songs, contact lists and just about anything you can think of instantly.  You can save on downloading ringtones and video clips by transferring the data directly from your computer. It would save you from paying for the ringtones and the data that you would use from the cellular networks.

Suppose that phone of yours goes dead during one of the greatest events of your life.  Let’s say it is your child’s birthday and you have been recording the entire event on your phone.  Now, your battery is dead.  With the USB to phone cables once again, the life of your phone is saved, as you quickly charge the phone through the USB to phone cables and get back to recording the important event. You can also transfer the whole event back to your computer for storage over there once you are done.

If you happen to be concerned about the power usage of your computer, then here is more good news for you. The USB ports have their own power supply direct from the power supply unit and will not affect your power usage.  A USB phone cable is an accessory that many of us have, or is on our must have bag of tricks, after all, it is the gadgets and the never being without them that we are so enthralled with, right?  But, most importantly, it is the downtime that can be so alarming, and when we are caught without our phone, there is a helplessness that comes over us all.

Aside from giving life to a dead cell phone, the transferring of data between your phone and your PC is the most convenient, not to mention the quickest way with the USB to phone cables.

1.) With our slick ringtone maker you can use any .MP3, .<M4R, or .WAV file on your computer and easily turn it in to your own ringtone. If do in fact already have the song file you want to create a ringtone from simply click on “Browse,” select the music file and Brinked will automatically begin uploading and prepping the file for you to edit. You can now skip to step two.

Don’t worry if you don’t have the music file on your computer, the Brinked.com ringtone creator makes it extremely easy to create your custom ringtone directly from a YouTube video.

* If you already have the YouTube video open, select the “Create from YouTube URL” button and then paste the URL in to the text box. Once you’ve done that, click “Next Step.”

* If you don’t have the video ready just click on the “Search YouTube” button, enter your search in to the text box and click on your video. You can preview it to make sure it is the song you want. If it is, click “Use this Video”

Brinked.com will automatically begin uploading your song and preparing it so you can edit it.

2.) The next step will allow you to drag the beginning and end markers to select exactly where you want your ringtone to begin and where you want it to end. You can also select to have your ringtone fade in or out by checking the appropriate boxes. If you don’t want your ringtone to loop click the button next to play/stop. Once you have your ringtone ready, click “Next Step.”

3.) Give your ringtone a descriptive name, set the artist and select a Category. Type in a brief description and check the, “I agree…” box and continue on to the Next Step.

4.) That’s it, you’re all done! Your new custom made ringtone has now been added to Brinked.com and now all you have to do is send it to your phone. One of our next post will cover “How To Send To Your Phone”

When you’re all done creating your ringtone, with just one click you can also easily share it with your friends via email, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, or you can even embed it on your blog.

The days of drag monotonous ringtones are gone. With the power of transferring and downloading provided on mobile phones and audio players too, ringtones have become snazzier. The latest on the block are video ringtones. What are they? Well, rather than playing audio tracks when people call you, your phone can play video tracks. Most cell phones will allow you to set particular videos for particular contacts or a general video for all of them.

A video ringtone is not too tough to make or download. If the mobile phone already has a video recorded, you can take videos of your friends and use them as video ringtones when they call. Want to add music in the background? Transfer them onto the computer, add a track on any moviemaker software and transfer it back to your phone. These days, there are websites too that specifically provide free video ringtones for download. So when someone calls you, you can catch a glimpse of your favourite music video before you take you call.

Video ringtones are not limited to music videos. A lot of people also love watching their own home videos, cartoon clips, sports moments and film scenes as their video ringtones as well. And as per statistics, the life of a video ringtone is shorter than that of an audio counterpart. So most people are always looking for a change, which is good news for people developing video ringtones.

Though a lot of simple mobile phones are also providing video ringtone feature, the concept is best seen and utilised on high end phones like Blacberry, iPhone and generally ones with great sound quality, a good memory and a high resolution screen. But on the hind side, video ringtones take up quite a bit of space and drains the battery quicker than regular ringtones. So, if you want a longer battery life, it is best to stick to the usual audio ringtones or get a spare battery to go with it.

While most phone phones only accept 3gp format for videos, which makes the media files compact and perfect for mobile viewing, things are quickly changing. High end mobile phones do allow .avi formats to play on their phones. With more and more media players going in for mobile players, the range will definitely broaden soon. Converting a video from .avi to 3gp is not too tough. While there are free converters available online, if you are a regular converter you can download one of the many free software applications as well.

A word of advice: it is best to create your own video ringtone than downloading it. Why? Because when you download a video ringtone, there are chances you are downloading a virus/spyware with it which can harm your mobile phone. It is best that you either record your own movies and use them or get a DVD, do the editing on your computer and then transfer them on your mobile phone. Spyware and virus protection is not as advanced yet and though video ringtones can be really attractive, you don’t want your phone to be infected.