How to make a free iPhone ringtone from a song Examiner.com
17.07.09
If you have a song that you want to turn into a ringtone, there's no need to shell out money for something you've paid for already. Making a free iPhone ringtone from a song just takes a few simple steps to complete.
These steps have been tested with iTunes 8.2.0.23 on an iPhone 3GS. If you are having trouble getting a song to show up on your iPhone after converting it to a ringtone and syncing, it might have DRM. These steps only work on songs not protected by DRM.
How to make a free iPhone ringtone from a song in iTunes
Locate the song you want to convert in iTunes. Right click the song and choose Get Info. Click on the Options tab. Right down the Stop Time or copy it to the clipboard and paste it in notepad. You'll have to modify the Start Time and Stop Time to choose only a 30 second (or less) clip for your ringtone. If you just want the first 30 seconds, just type "0:30" in the Stop Time. Make sure both are checked. Click OK when
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16 More Things That Would Greatly Improve iPhone 3.0
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We recently published an article which detailed 15 things that would greatly improve iPhone 3.0. After reading the article, our readers had lots of genius ideas that they left in the comments. This article features lots of our reader's ideas, as well as some of our own. While iPhone 3.0 is great, it's definitely missing a lot of cool and useful features. Here's 16 more of them.
1. Customized text message alerts The iPhone (like many phones) allows users to set individualized ringtones for contacts. You can set the "Funeral March" for when your mom calls, and "In Da Club" for when your friends call (if you want to be hated by society...but you get my point). So why can't we do the same for text messages? I would like to be able to tell whether a text message is coming from a "work" contact or a "home" contact. Vibrations should even be customizable (a long single vibration for home, three short repeated vibrations for work)...which brings me to number 2. 2. Customize Ring Tone Vibrations It's pretty clear that more people use vibrate mode than ringtone mode, and there's a lot more that can be done with the iPhone's vibrate mode. When a contact from work calls you, the vibrations can be long with 1 second pauses in between. When a contact from home calls you, or some other specified group (or perhaps a very special individual), the vibrations can be very short and quickly repeated, with no breaks in between. It's not a crucial...
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