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prettyvacant77 said:
When you go to the iTunes Store, if you right-click on the table header when viewing any album or list of songs, there's a Ringtone option (along with Album, Artist, Genre, etc.). This will add a column with a bell icon that will let you know if you can make a ringtone out of that iTunes Store song. Once you've purchased a song that can be made into a ringtone, or have ones that you previously purchased, you can select that song and go to the Store menu and select Create Ringtone. That should open the editor in iTunes to let you make the ringtone.
mrkgoo said:
DarkJC said:
Can't see it to be honest. If there would be any outrage it would be some snide mutterings about Apple copying features from indie developers. I mean do you really think there would be an outrage now if Apple included landscape mode for writing emails now after people have got third party apps for that purpose? Doubt it.
Edit: from PoliGaf
:lol :lolWaltJay said:
Kung Fu Jedi
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Supposedly AT&T is announcing free WiFi at Starbucks for iPhone users again, but I've been burned on this rumor so many times in the past, I'm afraid to buy into it now. :lol
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Bboy AJ said:
This won't help if he's on a PC, since he'll still have to do a (small but annoying) hack to have iTunes recognize the ringtone.
centracore
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Does anyone know of a free program to easily make ringtones for the iPhone? I know I personally make mine using Audacity and iTunes but I believe that's a bit too indepth for a friend of mine.
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
Damn. Now all of a sudden my phone key pad disappears any tme I try and make a call, I'm getting keyboard lag the likes of which I've never seen... Time to do a restore and start all over. 2G > 3G at this point, at least for me... Although the Google Earth app is sweet...once you disable auto-tilt.
Kung Fu Jedi
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AirBrian said:
Yeah, that's what I saw on the tech blogs earlier. I haven't received it yet myself, so I'll believe it when I see it.
Jack Scofield
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While on the internet, How do I open images in another window? I've done it accidentally a few times, but I can never do it when I want to. :lol
Jack Scofield
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RubxQub said:
Hmm, maybe I am clicking thumbnails. Hard to tell, though. I just know that I was able to do it with the Gallup poll in the PoliGaf thread but not with other images.
I think it will depend on how up-to-date Starbucks' WiFi service is. I have been to 2 Starbucks that asked for a login and password for AT&T's subscription service, but the store I work at will detect your iPhone and direct you to a login screen that only requires you to enter your phone number for verification. Sadly, since I'm running on an unlocked phone with T-Mobile I can't get the free Wifi. Obviously they can't detect what your phone's number is, so I am hoping that if I just find someone else with a proper iPhone subscription I can enter their number and be set.Kung Fu Jedi said:
I was in a McDonald's today and it defaulted to their iPhone login as well, so I presume they are on the program too.
Basically nothing. If you unlock the phone, you can use a prepaid sim card to make calls (provided you are using AT&T or T-Mobile prepaid), but for data you will probably be limited to WiFi hotspots. There aren't a lot of options for prepaid data plans, I am finding.mrkgoo said:
AT&T's prepaid service offers something called Medianet, but I can't tell if it is full web access or some kind of proprietary network.
MEdiaNet**
A whole world of information and entertainment is at your fingertips with MEdiaTM Net. Get weather, news and sports scores delivered right to your phone. Even better, you control what you receive when you personalize your home page by placing your favorite categories and headlines right up front. Surfing the Web from your phone has never been easier.
$0.01 per KB.
It doesn't matter anyway, because here are the rates:
MEdia Net
1MB - $4.99
5 MB - $9.99
:lol
You'd be spending $10 everytime you looked at a thread on GAF. I suppose it might be useful strictly for checking e-mail with images turned off, but beyond that I have no idea what you'd do.
MEdiaNet**
A whole world of information and entertainment is at your fingertips with MEdiaTM Net. Get weather, news and sports scores delivered right to your phone. Even better, you control what you receive when you personalize your home page by placing your favorite categories and headlines right up front. Surfing the Web from your phone has never been easier.
$0.01 per KB.
It doesn't matter anyway, because here are the rates:
MEdia Net
1MB - $4.99
5 MB - $9.99
:lol
You'd be spending $10 everytime you looked at a thread on GAF. I suppose it might be useful strictly for checking e-mail with images turned off, but beyond that I have no idea what you'd do.
Spiritreaver
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This has probably already been addressed, but I just realized that the Safari browser can display PowerPoint. Is there anyway for the iPhone/iPod Touch to point Safari to PP files saved on the device? I don't want to do that silly image/video conversion thing.
Also I'm using a 2G iPod Touch so no jailbreak.
Also I'm using a 2G iPod Touch so no jailbreak.
Phoenix
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DarthWufei said:This has probably already been addressed, but I just realized that the Safari browser can display PowerPoint. Is there anyway for the iPhone/iPod Touch to point Safari to PP files saved on the device? I don't want to do that silly image/video conversion thing.
Also I'm using a 2G iPod Touch so no jailbreak.
How did you get the powerpoint files on the phone? Unless you're using some 'unsanctioned' process, you'd be pointing the browser at the URL on the web. If you're somehow sync'ing them using some file sharing program - tell the author to open those files using UIWebView because MobileSafari can't be pointed to the file share of an application much the same as your application can't be pointed to the filesystem of the phone.
Spiritreaver
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Lame.Phoenix said:
I haven't saved anything to the iPod so I was just curious. I've only browsed to files that are available online. I suppose I could just upload them myself to a server and just bookmark them.Was just curious as to if there was an easier way of going about it.
Nah, not really.mrkgoo said:
This is the same as how there is a free Wikipedia app and a paid one, the only difference being that the free one in the case of podcast downloading is made by Apple. If someone bought the paid Wikipedia app, and later found there was a different one that was free, they'd just kick themselves for buying the paid one.
How is Apple liable for that? It's not an outrage, it's pretty simple - if third parties wish to make an application that was completely within Apple's guidelines, and charge money for it, they should not be rejected just because Apple themselves are making something similar.
Or put it more simply, why are third parties allowed to compete against each other but not against Apple? That doesn't sound anti-competitive to you?
prettyvacant77 said:
its really simple to make your own.
-select song you want in itunes
-right click, get info
-go to the tab that allows u to set start and stop time
-make it start and stop where u want the ringtone, about 30 seconds in length
-press ok and convert the track to AAC
-now go to the newly created files location, it should be like 300kb or something small
-make sure you can see file extensions, its in the folder options, and change it from .m4a to .m4r
-now add that .m4r file to itunes, and it will see it as a ringtone, done. so easy
Wait, so how did you get the powerpoints on the ipod touch then? Anyway, check out the app store. To start you off on the search look at Files, AirSharing and File Magnet.DarthWufei said:This has probably already been addressed, but I just realized that the Safari browser can display PowerPoint. Is there anyway for the iPhone/iPod Touch to point Safari to PP files saved on the device? I don't want to do that silly image/video conversion thing.
Also I'm using a 2G iPod Touch so no jailbreak.
hirokazu said:
As I stated above, I suppose so. I never said Apple is liable, just floating the idea that maybe Apple wanted to be a bit 'responsible'. Again, not really like a large company to do something for THAT reason. And yes, it does sound anti-competitive, because that;s what it is if Apple is rejecting apps on that basis. I was always under the contention that Apple never let it on, not because of that, but more because of some other issue - they didn't even do it themselves, when they could have (ie have them on the Apple store).
border said:
thanks for the info. In NZ, our iPhone carrier has some crazy fees like data plans that allow you 200MB per month (for over NZ$20). Strangely, the prepay option for data is actually pretty good in comparison. It's something like $1 for the first 10MB on any day, $1 per MB after that, and it resets every day. So it's kind of like 300MB for $30 per month, but you only pay for days you use it.Even more interestingly, they lock out iPhone owners from this data rate by issuing a specific iphone-only APN. Even MORE MORE interesting is that the APN is editable on the iPhones here, so you can just open it up and use the data plan.
DarthWufei said:Lame.
Was just curious as to if there was an easier way of going about it.
Couldn't you just email them to yourself?
Holy wow, a OneSeg add-on:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article...one_owners_to_be_offered_tv_tuner_add_on.html
http://www.appleinsider.com/article...one_owners_to_be_offered_tv_tuner_add_on.html
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Ashhong said:
The site given above is easier and also does any file, not just your purchased music:
http://audiko.net/
Thanks to whoever provided that
Seems to work okay, but the cutting of the files is not very precise -- it seems to "round" to the nearest second or half second when the final file is produced. The volume on a couple files I tried was a little low as well.anonymousAversa said:The site given above is easier and also does any file, not just your purchased music:
http://audiko.net/
Thanks to whoever provided that
Does anyone know of a lightweight application that will generate more precise cuts and louder audio?
GodfatherX
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audiko is great, my friend actually gave me a link to it yesterday, fairly large amount of pre-cut tracks, havent tried to upload my own yet
Apple is blocking Opera for iphone.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/opera-sings-an-ode-to-browsers-everywhere/
Patrick Klepek
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I jailbroke my phone for the sole purpose of being able to capture videos, but for some reason my phone refuses to acknowledge my home Wi-Fi network now. It did before. I've hard booted the phone and the router. Any ideas?? I can't pull the videos off the phone without having it connected to my network...
Jack Scofield
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Sometimes when I'm browsing the web on the iPhone, the screen will turn black then kick me back to the desktop. Um, is this normal?
yoopoo said:
this is hardly a surprise. Unlike some of the other apps Apple has rejected, Apple lays it out quite clearly that you can't write a new web browser (using webkit to render pages within an app is not the same thing) for the thing.
I'm not sure why Opera was even investing the time, aside from purely academic purposes.
anonymousAversa said:The site given above is easier and also does any file, not just your purchased music:
http://audiko.net/
Thanks to whoever provided that
who said anything about purchased music? my method works for all files. and i havent checked that site, but it doesnt get much easier than setting start stop times, converting, and changing file name. but whatever floats your boat. also, using itunes allows you to raise the volume, which apparently that doesnt.
eXxy said:
honestly, just do the hard resets with sleep/home button. also keep toggling the wifi. if nothing works i think ull have to do it again. probably with a restore of the whole phone
NekoFever
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iToner might be suitable. It's only for the Mac and it's not free, but if that's not a problem it's very easy. You just open it and drop any audio file into the window, then hit sync and it'll convert it to the correct format and copy it to the phone. It gets around the limitation of the length of ringtones as well, so there's no need to trim them.centracore said:
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