Week in Apple: iPhone 3.1 battery life, more iMac rumors, iTunes fix
This week’s Apple highlights were all over the map, from Netflix on the iPhone to iMac rumors. We even talked to a few App Store developers about some additions Apple has made to its website, and polled our readers on how iPhone OS 3.1 is affecting their battery life. Read on for the roundup:
Apple makes lame attempt at placating App Store developers: Apple has launched an online a resource center for registered iPhone developers. The only problem is that it gives them nothing new—except more frustration, that is.
Get push for Gmail on iPhone, WinMo via Google Sync: If you have been waiting for push e-mail from your Gmail account for your iPhone or WinMo phone, your prayers have been answered by the Google Mobile team.
Week in Apple: iPhone 3.1 battery life, more iMac rumors, iTunes fix
This week’s Apple highlights were all over the map, from Netflix on the iPhone to iMac rumors. We even talked to a few App Store developers about some additions Apple has made to its website, and polled our readers on how iPhone OS 3.1 is affecting their battery life. Read on for the roundup:
Apple makes lame attempt at placating App Store developers: Apple has launched an online a resource center for registered iPhone developers. The only problem is that it gives them nothing new—except more frustration, that is.
Get push for Gmail on iPhone, WinMo via Google Sync: If you have been waiting for push e-mail from your Gmail account for your iPhone or WinMo phone, your prayers have been answered by the Google Mobile team.
iRingPro offers "professional" ringtones
Filed under: Multimedia, iPhone
Like many of you, I love the convenience and fun of owning a mobile phone. However, I detest loud and obnoxious ring tones, not to mention the disappointment of a great conversation interrupted by an ear-shattering rendition of The Hamster Dance.
I’d prefer it if people used their phone’s (least annoying) default tone, but I know that some users can’t resist fiddling around. Here’s hoping those people will check out iRingPro.
Billed as “…smart, attractive, livable alerts,” these aren’t your nephew’s ringtones. Instead, you get a serene but noticeable series of notes that won’t elicit strange looks in the board room. Additionally, the pause between repetitions is longer than most, eliminating that sense of “I’ve got to answers this now!” urgency. There are few samples you can check out on the site, and they’re quite nice.
A collection of 21 tones in M4R format will run you $9.95US. Please, if you’re the downloading type, consider iRingPro.
Alternatively, you can try your hand at making your own classy tones with GarageBand.
[Via The Iconfactory]
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Create Your Own Ringtones With YouTones iPhone Ringtone Creator
We’ve shown you ways to create ringtones for your iPhone using your Mac, but with the newly released YouTones ($4.99) application from FunMobility, you can now make them on your iPhone. YouTunes is already an established name in the ringtone industry, having previously been available for other handsets on most networks, including AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
Making ringtones with YouTones is, as the name implies, mostly about you. You singing, you swearing like a drunken sailor, you doing pretty much anything you can record with the iPhone’s mic. Yes, we realize how dangerous this could be. But it could also be a lot of fun, plus it’s cheaper than buying ringtones from iTunes at a buck a pop, and you don’t need to be near your Mac if you’re struck with the impossible-to-resist urge for a change in your call notification habits.
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Creating a ringtone using only iTunes
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, How-tos, Tips and tricks, Odds and ends, Freeware, iTunes, iPhone
Remember the days when getting a ringtone up on the iPhone was about as hard as, say, fixing the economy? There were all kinds of programs you had to mess around with, and sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t, and most of the time, it just wasn’t worth the trouble. Cut ahead a year from those days of yore to right now, and look at this — all you need to get a ringtone of almost any song you want is iTunes itself.
If you want to do anything more fancy, you’ll need GarageBand (and you’ve got it anyway, so follow Steven’s guide if you’d rather do that), but as CNET shows, iTunes will let you choose the start and stop times of a song, and converting to AAC from mp3 will let you cut it down to just those times. Pull it out of iTunes, rename the extension, drag it back into iTunes (making sure to delete the version that’s already in there), and voila, custom ringtone.
Note, however, that it doesn’t work for music with DRM on it, but it does work for music you rip from a CD. One favor to ask, though: don’t really put Young Jeezy on your ringtone — those ‘tones are obnoxious. How about a little Miles Davis instead?
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