Apple Inc How To Create Custom iPhone Ringtones With Garageband

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By Alexia Petrakos

Nintey-nine cents isn't a huge price to pay for a song, but if you already have a gigantic collection of music in your iTunes library and want to use one of those songs as a ringtone for your iPhone, 99 cents is a bit of a stretch. Apple now allows user-created custom ringtones for the iPhone. All you need is iLife's latest version of Garageband and iTunes and you're ready to turn any song in your iTunes library into a 40-second looped ringtone.

Step 1

Launch iTunes.

Step 2

Launch GarageBand.

Step 3

Select "New Music Project" if this is the first time you've opened GarageBand.

Step 4

Click "Create." There is no need to type in a name for the project.

Step 5

Select all tracks (if there are any) on the GarageBand workspace, click "Track" > "Delete Track" to start with a fresh work area.

Step 6

Drag and drop the song you want to make into a ringtone from iTunes into GarageBand. This will make a new track you can edit.

Step 7

Click the "Cycle Region" button on the bottom of the screen--the one with two arrows looped in on itself.

Step 8

Drag the yellow bar above the track's timeline, called the "region loop tool," to the spot you want to begin your ringtone.

Step 9

Expand the region loop tool by clicking on one of the ends and dragging it along the timeline to the part of the song you want to use as a ringtone. The limit is 40 seconds.

Step 10

Click "Share" on the menu bar and select "Send Ringtone to iTunes". GarageBand converts the song to the.m4r format that iPhones use for ringtones, and it will save it to your iTunes ringtone library.

Step 11

Sync your iPhone to iTunes to upload the new ringtones.

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Apple Would Be In A Position To Claim Patents

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Apple is butting heads with RIM, Motorola, and Nokia over the next evolution of SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card sizes. SIM cards are used by GSM and LTE carriers to attach numbers and service plans to mobile devices like iPhones and iPads. After paving the way for the micro-SIM format, which has since been adopted by Nokia for their Lumia series, Apple is now putting pressure on the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to recognize a their new nano-SIM format as the next industry standard. What's the problem? Well, competitors worry that Apple would be in a position to claim patents on the nano-SIM format, and if it was set as the universal standard, they could all end up paying royalties. There's also a concern that other vendors would be stuck with Apple's design even if they think they've come up with something better.

On top of that, Apple might skew the voting process, having recently applied six of their subsidiaries for membership in the council. This would oust Nokia as the largest voting member. Service providers are all for the nano-SIMs, in any case, and they're supporting Apple's proposal to ETSI. Voting at ETSI starts next week.

The nano-SIM would be 30% smaller and 15% thinner than the micro-SIMs currently found in iPhones and iPads, and that means more room in smartphones for other good stuff. iMore previously heard Apple was intent on moving away from the traditional 30-pin Dock port towards a "micro-Dock" connector due to similar space considerations.

Source: Financial Times

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Soundclip For iPhone

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Whether you are someone who uses the external sound through the built in speaker of your iPhone 3G for handsfree purposes when driving, or just want to listen to the music on your iPhone at a low volume in the park on a nice sunny day, Soundclip for iPhone 3G from TenOne Design is a nifty little accessory that enhances the sound coming from your iPhone.

The built in speaker in the iPhone 3G is not half bad, but once the volume gets a bit high, say while driving and using the functionality as handsfree, as we do not want to break the law, the sound can often become less clear and distorted. This is where the Soundclip for iPhone 3G from TenOne Design comes into play.

SoundClip easily clips onto the 30 pin dock connector of your iPhone 3G and immediately amplifies the external sound from your iPhone by 10dB between 5kH and 20kHz.

If you enjoy playing games on your iPhone 3G you will be glad to know that the SoundClip does not get blocked by your hand while playing. The only downside to this nifly little iPhone gadget is that you have to detach it to be able to charge your iPhone, and it is not compatible with the extended batteries for the iPhone 3G.

The price however makes the SoundClip a very affordable gadget for your iPhone 3G, as it is priced at about $7.95. We will get back with more information about where to buy the SoundClip in the UK. In the US it can be bought through TenOne Design website.

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The iPhone Can Not Cope With The Image Quality Of A Good Digital Camera

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Sure, the iPhone can not cope with the image quality of a good digital camera but it's great for snapshots and ShakeItPhoto- or Hipstamatic-experiments. That's why I'm collecting a lot of pictures on my iPhone from time to time. Sometimes I sync the pictures with iPhoto. But I'm not always using the delete-after-import feature. The current version of iPhoto does not have any problems with that if you use the "Hide Photos Already Imported" option: iPhoto just ignores the old photos and only downloads the previews of the new ones in the import section.

But there is no way to delete all or a selection of these old photos in iPhoto, iTunes or on the iPhone. But the only solution to delete these photos one-by-one on the iPhone is not working with hundrets of photos. So, what to do?

Every Mac ships with a standard Apple utility which helps you out It's called "Image Capture" (or on German Mac OS X systems "Digitale Bilder"). This utility shows all images on the iPhone. You can select all or only a selection of these pictures and you're able to delete them right away! Here is how to:

* Connect your iPhone via USB with your Mac.

* If iTunes or iPhoto starts, wait for the sync, and press the iPhone-disconnect button within the itunes window. Make sure, that you quit iTunes and iPhoto.

* Open "Image Capture" from the applications folder.

* Select your iPhone in the left column and a list of the iPhone photos will be displayed on the right.

* Select the photos, you want to delete - or select all pictures by pressing command-A.
* Now press on the red delete button just beneath the list. If you're sure, that you want to delete the pictures you can confirm the deletion. WARNING: YOU CANNOT RECOVER THE DELETED PHOTOS - SO BE SURE, THAT YOU IMPORTED THEM TO IPHOTO BEFORE!

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Hospital Frenzy Is Compatible With iPhone

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Apple Inc Privacy Block iPhone Apps From Spying On You

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Saurick has released PrivaCy, an iPhone app that blocks iPhone apps from watching what you do on your phone. PrivaCy is available for free in Cydia. "It has recently come to the attention of angry Cydia users that they are being watched by many of the applications they have installed from the App Store.

Sites like I-phone-home have been discussing this in detail, leading to a post on the Dev-Team Blog about one provider in particular: Pinch Media.

Pinch Media, however, is not the only tracking provider: on the iPhone alone there are three other companies: Flurry, Medialets, and Mobclix.

Developers integrate these systems for much the same reason people use Google Analytics: to better understand how their customers use their products.

Unfortunately, due to the restrictions Apple places on their App Store, these providers are unable to directly interface with the users they affect.

Instead, they rely on developers of every single application to document what information is being logged, and allow users to "opt-out" if they desire.

Thanks to applicatons like redsn0w and Cydia, however, these restrictions are no longer important: a system-wide global "opt-out" setting is now possible.

Pinch Media realized this fact, and took the lead in contacting me regarding getting this feature out there to all the users of jailbroken devices: they care.

With BigBoss, we then contacted all of the other providers, getting not only their blessing, but also their technical expertise in disabling their systems.

The result is PrivaCy: a new Settings panel that allows you to selectively opt-out of sending anonymous usage statistics to each of these providers.

This extension was a team effort, and was able to be executed as quickly as it was thanks to the help and interest of the companies involved."

More info here.

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Apple Says That Wi-fi Sync Occurs When The iOS Device Is Plugged In To Power

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Battery life with my iPhone 4S was very poor, and I finally discovered why: I'm using a battery extender case. The problem is that the phone considers that the case is a source of AC power, so if have iTunes Wi-Fi sync on - which only operates when your phone is plugged in - you'll be syncing more than you might expect, since your phone is technically plugged in.

The solution is to either turn off Wi-Fi sync, or use an external battery pack that has an on-off switch so that you can control when it is actually sending current to the phone.

[KIRKMC ADDS: I guess this makes sense. Apple says that Wi-Fi sync occurs when "The iOS device is plugged in to power." But this should only occur if two other conditions are met: "iTunes is open on the computer," and "The iOS device and the computer are on the same Wi-Fi network." So I would think that if you're not on the same network as your Mac, then nothing should hap...

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