Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

Create a custom iPhone ringtone in iTunes

// December 16th, 2007 // No Comments » // tutorials

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You may have noticed that in one of my RSS feeds this week came an article from lifehacker showing you how to use Garageband to create ringtones for your iPhone. However, if you use a PC running Windows, you do not have this option. Well, it’s your lucky day, you can create ringtones just using iTunes, heres how.

Select, duplicate and convert the track

First find a track that you like in your iTunes library and duplicate it. Now convert that track to AAC by selecting the duplicated track, right clicking (windows), or CTRL/click (Mac) and select convert to AAC.
Please Note: make sure you have a back up of the track you are using just in case you make a mistake!

Edit the start and stop times

Ringtones have to be 40 seconds in length, so go to File > Get Info > Options. In the start time box enter the start time you would like the track to start playing. Then in the stop time box below, enter the stop time. Remember, the total duration has to be 40 seconds and no more.

Check the two boxes next to these fields and then check Remember Playback Position. Now you have your track.

Convert the file extension

We need to convert this to a ringtone and the way to do that is to first delete the track from iTunes. Do not send to the recycle bin or the trash, instead keep the file (use finder to locate it on a mac). Once located, we need to re-name the file with the extension m4r this will tell iTunes that it is a ringtone.
Double click the file to open it in iTunes, then double click once more and it should pop into your iTunes folder. Double check this by clicking on ‘Ringtones’ in the left hand column of your iTunes interface.
And there we have it, a custom ringtone for your iphone without using garageband.
Enjoy!

iPhoney – See What Your Web Sites Look like On The iPhone

// November 22nd, 2007 // 4 Comments » // mobile web

Now that the iPhone has arrived on these shores, I bet there’s a few of you out there that don’t yet own it, but can’t wait to see what your web sites will look like on apples futuristic device. Well, heres a tasty little app that you can get your claws on. It’s called iPhoney.

It’s a free open source download and the requirements are Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later. (It’s not available for PC’s). It’s a free download and once it reaches your mac, just unzip the file and place it in your applications folder.

Heres a few other things that iPhoney can do:

  • Test your iPhone-enabled Web 2.0 applications and compatible web sites.
  • Open any website that works with Safari (use Safari 3 beta for the most accurate experience).
  • Rotate to see websites in either portrait or landscape orientation.
  • Show or hide the location bar for a full-screen iPhone experience.
  • Simulate the iPhone user agent, to test browser redirection scripts.
  • Zoom out to see how your current pages might look while zoomed out on iPhone.
  • Turn off plug-ins (including Flash, but note that they all turn off (including QuickTime).
  • Automatic updates with Sparkle, so you’ll always know if there’s a new version.
  • And of course, open source code so you can contribute to iPhoney’s rapid development.