I really hate awful ring­tones. The ones that come with your phone I believe are ter­ri­ble, and I think they are pur­posely bad to make you spend money on the provider’s tones. And then, you pay $3–5 for 30 sec­onds or less of music when you can get the same song for 99 cents on iTunes — and have the entire song! So for­get about all that mess.

http://www.makeownringtone.com/

Ok, I know the web­site is really cheesy and there are lots of ads, but the inter­face works very well and even though they directly e-mailed the mp3 to my phone, they haven’t spammed me. Here’s my new ringtone:

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So get rid of that stu­pid “Ver­i­zon Moods” fac­tory ring­tone and get a one that won’t embarass you. It’s free.