Free Ringtones – iPhone UK

So… here is what you do. Go in to Garageband and create a 30 second clip of whatever you like for a ringtone. Songs in your itunes library, effects, a voice going Awooga Awooga!. Whatever.

Then .. select Export Song to Disk from the Share menu.

Export it to the Desktop for convenience. You will see a file with your filename and the extension .m4a – Click once on the file and once again to change the filename. Change the .m4a extension to .m4r and hit enter. You will be asked if you meant to do this.

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Beatles on iTunes – Woohoo!? Beatles Schmeatles I say

I remember sitting in a restaurant in Tenerife circa 1986. I was with my mum, dad and sister eating my usual Margarita pizza covered with tuna and onions. The chef was flambeing (I have no idea where the accent goes there) a steak beside us and generally all was well with the world. The “entertainment” for the night was the usual sort you get in Tenerife, Joe Schmo from Middlesex transports his sound equipment to southern climes, develops a tan, waits for the sweat to build up on his forehead and begins to murder popular songs. One of those songs I vividly remember was “Yesterday” by the Beatles and written by Paul (oops I was a silly old man) McCartney. I admit now that I enjoyed it. It may also have been my first introduction to the song. Its a big hit and has been covered in places more (and less) exotic that Tenerife and Middlesex. I enjoyed it. I admit it, it stuck with me, I maybe hummed it a few times over the next few tuna pizzas. But do I want to buy the original on iTunes?Next Wednesday (5th September) Apple are putting on a media event entitled “the beat goes on” and the speculation is that this not only means the release of an entirely new generation of iPods but that wait for it … movies will be free from now on on iTunes.No, that wasn’t the big thing… it was that people are expecting the Beatles’ music to be released on iTunes store. Now I have had time to think about this… I asked a friend “what’s the big deal?” and we both decided that we didn’t give a Douglas Hurd if the Beatles were on iTunes. I mean I liked “Yesterday” and a bit of “Hey Jude” but do they EVER make my playlists, do I EVER think – I’ll put this on in the background at a dinner party – they’ll enjoy this – NOPE. Maybe somebody else cares (who already has their entire collection on DVD and ripped to their iPod anyhow) but it ain’t me and I don’t fully understand why anyone else should. Maybe it is a landmark muso-historical reason rather than a commercial reason. It matters to music execs and Liverpudlians and the executors of the two deceased Beatle’s wills.It don’t matter to me – tell me , does it matter to you? On another note, if you want a laugh. Watch this then followed quickly by this.

TV and Movies coming to iTunes in UK this month

Source: TV and movies coming to iTunes UK this month  - Not sure about the reliability of this report as these things generate web traffic and I wouldn’t put it past people to create desirable news rumours just to get flow to their sites.  But I do want it to be true, oh yes oh yes.   

Movies coming to iTunes in UK?

The following article – Apple updates iTunes, QuickTime – iPod/iTunes – Macworld UK suggests that with the introduction of UK film ratings to the newest update of iTunes, UK users could soon be able to purchase TV shows and movies from the iTunes UK store. This would make me very happy and probably less well off. We’ve looked longingly enough at the US (only for this feature in iTunes I might add).It is time for me to be able to buy vapid, addictive pseudo-intellectual mind candy like Lost when I choose and with a gentle tap of my little old trackpad.Amen, let it be so.