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...months from now, it seems likely that Franz Ferdinand, the Glasgow-based rock band that's hotter this second than a Paris Hilton download, will travel from gig to gig via a record company's limousine. But for now, the quartet seems content to carry their own guitars on the London Underground. On a January afternoon, they boarded in north London, stumbling through the barriers with kit and overnight bags like well-equipped buskers. A few stops down the line and Franz Ferdinand - no relation to the assassinated Archduke - emerges on a rainy Charing Cross Road in the city center...
Hoping to duplicate the success of Apple's iPod and iTunes Music Store, several companies have launched portable players tied to powerful music managers and music-download stores. One compelling entry is Dell's DJ Player with Dell Jukebox powered by Musicmatch (from $224 for 15 GB; from $279 for 20 GB). First, the bad news: at a hefty 215 g (a comparable iPod weighs 57 g less), the Dell DJ is a little too big - it barely fits in a pants pocket. But the player has some nice improvements over Apple's. The large volume buttons are a plus...
...best way to get a ring tone that nobody else has is to create your own. Xingtone.com has a Windows application you can download onto your computer and use to create a 30-second snippet of any MP3, WAV or MIDI file. It works on most AT&T, Cingular, Sprint and T-Mobile phones, and it's free until Jan. 1, when the company will start charging $15. MotoMixer, available on some Motorola phones, lets you create your own mix of one of several songs by adjusting the drums, brass and other instruments directly on the phone. It costs...
...course, sometimes the best ring tone is no sound at all. That is why Modtones, which is available on several Verizon handsets, lets you download a silent ringer that you can then assign to certain incoming callers. You know--people like that ex-boyfriend who just won't stop calling. The caller will be none the wiser, and you can enjoy a bit more peace and quiet...
Neither Sprint nor Verizon did anything to improve on the chirp itself. You'd think that in the age of the ring tone you could download a new chirp, anything from a cat's meow to a foghorn, but both carriers leave you with a single, annoying alert. Your only alternative is "privacy mode." Every phone tested could vibrate instead of chirp and route sound to your ear instead of a speaker...