make your own iphone ringtones from mp3

How to make your own iphone ringtones from mp3?

when you download a mp3 music from the internet, you cannot 'create ringtone' directly in your iTue (by right click). What you have to do is the following:

step 1. select your mp3 music which you want to make as ringtone: right click at 'convert ACC version...

step 2. the 'acc version' will directly generated just under your music, as a new music file: right click on 'Get Info'. in 'Options' define your 'start time' and 'stop time', then click 'OK'...

step 3. go to 'Finder', to your own folder, and to Music/ iTunes/ iTunes Music/ then you will fine the artist name on one of the folders. Go into this folder and find the file: you will see two files - one is mp3 file and the other one is .m4a file.

step 4. rename the .m4a file by changing '.m4a' to '.m4r' and click 'Use .m4r'. now you will see this as a ringtone fine.

step 5. put all your ringtones into one folder named 'Ringtones' under 'iTunes' folder. Then you can sync your new ringtones!

ps: this can only done under Mac OS. For Windows seems you cannot change the extension from .m4a to .m4r. In this case, if you have both MacOS and Windows, just copy the ringtones folder into a harddisk and paste into iTunes folder in Windows. If you only have Windows, google some softwares that could convert mp3 into iphone ringtones...

good luck!

iphone 3.1

Currently i'm using iphone 3G, with Vodafone sim card.

In the Netherlands, iPhone has to corporate with T-mobile as bundle. However, as i mentioned in my previous blog, i have jailbreak and unlocked my iPhone fro 3.0 to 3.0.1.

Now the latest version of iPhone software 3.1 is on... but at this moment there's no possibility to jailbreak and unlock 3.1. What we have to do is to wait till iPhone Dev Team announce the latest version of RedSn0w and PwnageTool for 3.1.

Apple's marketing strategy

Apple's marketing strategies are very interesting...

Two years ago, Apple were still selling the 13" white/black MacBook. MacBook Pro has 15" and 17" with silver look.

Last year, 2008, Apple changed the 13" white/black MacBook to the same appearance as MacBook Pro, which has the black outline on the screen. So on the market the white or black MacBook computers are gone. Seems Apple would like to have a unified appearance to the customers -- MacBook,MacBook Pro, and iMac... although the MacBook Air still keeps its silver appearance...

This year, the white MacBook with 13" come back. However, the MacBook Pro added a new product, MacBook 13"...

Isn't it interesting? White MacBook has come back and 13" MacBook become, no, i shall say updated to MacBook Pro...

Why this happened?

I guess, it's because customers still love the white MacBook! After Apple no producing white/black MacBook, the sales were dropping and seems many customers request the white MacBook come back to the market.

I guess, then, Apple would say, if white MacBook come back to the market, where shall we put the 'unified appearance' 13" MacBook? Since the appearance are the same, then Apple position the 13" MacBook (which are already produced and ready in the market) into the MacBook Pro line.

So now you could see 13" Apple computers are no more just MacBook, but also the Pro. In this way, Apple won't throw away the produced 13" with "unified appearance". And, they could just tell the customers, i guess, 'look, you want 13" as MacBook Pro, i'll give you the 13" MacBook Pro; you want white Apple computer, i'll give you the white Apple computer"... without losing customers, Apple also repositioned the "unsuccessful" product.

For further observation, the only difference between MacBook and MacBook Pro is the appearance: white or silver. Because they both got 13" in the product line and what else could be different? Some would say the hardware... Yes, but Apple is the producer. If they don't want to put a 1TB harddisk on MacBook today, they just don't do it. And, only today, not tomorrow. So tomorrow they could say 'new MacBook has updated to 1TB'... and ask for higher price...

and next, we are waiting for Air to joint the Pro line?

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the SAME to Snow Leopard... they don't update as service pack, they sell new product...

so my observation is: Apple come up with new products (either laptop, desktop, phone or MP3 players, and even operation systems, etc.) at least twice a year, to grab the customers' attention to the brand. Not like Windows... either the operation system or office software...

Vampire

To have eternal life, you could either be Jesus (definately not possible), medication (seems need lots and lots of money and waiting time), or be a vampire (with wonderful tooth).

A vampire... is there real vampire on our earth? many stories and movies talking about this unnatural creature and seems like they are much more close to our daily life then we thought (such as the stories told in Underworld). Or, perhaps there is one near you, like Vampire Boy (恋して悪魔). You never know!

Don't you think become a vampire is a cool thing to be happened on you? you can have eternal life, no more sick and illness, and you can go anywhere you like...

On the other hand, vampires are afraid of sunlight, crucifix and garlic... but does it matter? we have UV protection now, some vampires seems not afraid of crucifix and garlic, and seems the only weakness is the silver...

How come we didn't see too many vampires? First just forget about those scientific research and historical issues about where does the vampire come from and what is the 'real' vampire like... because if vampire is a real creature on earth, you can imagine that some information (news, reports or other literatures) can be fake.

Human are dangerous. If they want to kill, they will. No matter how powerful a vampire is, there still 60 billion human natures out there. So that's why we can't meet these creatures. Reasonable?

Perhaps vampires have their own rules and not to expand the population of their race. Which means they might not willing to let some human to become one of them. Why? One of the reason might be the more vampires exist on earth, the less food they could possibly get.

so, how to become a vampire? wikipedia says needs to be bitten by a real vampire. and some says you need to be qualified. No matter what, it would be difficult to become one... would you like to become one of them?

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A future life?

What is a future life? In Buddhism people believe that if you cannot become a buddha, you still can be a human, or an animal.

So when people asking: what would you like to be in your future life? Have you ever thought about this question?

Some would say, i would like to be a bird. because then i can fly in the sky. Some would say, i would like to be a fish, because i like to swim in the ocean. When you dead before your parents, you might say i would still like to be your son/daughter in my future life.

And there's a Chinese book named 'Don't be a Chinese in Future Life'. Then what nationality would you like to be?

To this question, for men, the answer i guess the best would be an Arabic. Because they can marry to four wives...

But is everyone like to have a future life? if this can be realized.

Or, some people prefer just to play a 'Back to Future' ... sleep and open your eyes again you are in the future. You are still yourself but everything changed. No one knows you anymore and ... you know nothing about the future world too. But the most fascinating thing is, you see the development of the future; Or, you will see how people surfer on the Earth. Just like the movie 'Time Machine', and that's one of my favorite movies.

My other favorite movies are Sengoku Jieitai (戦国自衛隊1549 and 戦国自衛隊2006関ヶ原の戦い). Isn't it wonderful? Change the history, change the future.

So where would you like to be? back to history? or go to the future?