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Video Ringtones For iPhone Revolutionize Answering Your Phone

What's more awesome and annoying than regular music ringtones? Video ringtones. iFoneTec has developed VideosTone, which lets you play back a standard formatted-for-iPhone video whenever someone calls. You can pick different ones for different people, like Devo for Lam and Ricky Martin for Jesus. We've been trying to try this app for ourselves but our download from Installer.app keeps timing out. The people on ModMyiPhone have had more luck getting Coldplay to dance on their phones, apparently. [ModMyiPhone]

10:00 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Jason Chen
10,634 views, 58 comments

Latest by n/a: hi for my posts can some 5 of you support me by signing up with this website [iphone.free4me.net] This will help you too cause all you do is sign up fill out 5 referals, complete 1 free offer i more »

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Apple Cutting Deals For More Ringtones

According to the New York Times, multiple label executives have confirmed that Apple is looking to expand its iTunes ringtone collection by June—far more than they have in the past. Their interests include both downloadable song snippets and ringback tones (new ringers). But apparently, the labels feel that these ringtones should cost more over a hypothetical 3G iTunes Store than the current Wi-Fi option. Why do music labels feel that way? Oh, because they are a bunch of greedy dinosaurs who hate you, that's why. [NYTimes]

9:17 AM on Mon May 19 2008
By Mark Wilson
2,316 views, 36 comments

Latest by deathbychichi: @Groggy Banana: You can. You can drag mp3s to the timeline and set your loop points and save it as a ringtone. more »

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AT&T's Top Ten Ringtones of the Year

And the award goes to...major corporations who are making a killing on ringtones. AT&T compiled a list of their top selling ringtones of the year, and while comfortably hiding their massive erections behind the podium, announced them to the world: More »

12:15 PM on Sat Dec 22 2007
By Mark Wilson
16,366 views, 31 comments

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iPhone Users Get GarageBand Ringtones

iPhone users with crappy bands will rejoice today, as the recently released GarageBand 4.1.1 update adds easy ringtone exporting. Users have full access to Apple Loops and iLife jingles—as well as their own recordings—to export tracks. Here's the full procedure: More »

9:14 AM on Fri Dec 14 2007
By Mark Wilson
18,938 views, 24 comments

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Ringboxx Gives Your Home Phone a Slice of the Ringtone Action

Let's face it, the ringtone on your home phone is dull and annoying. Fortunately, the Ringboxx can change all that by getting your home phone in on the custom ringtone party. Users can connect the device to a PC and download a tone from a collection of thousands of popular songs. It can even be programmed to sync tunes with individual numbers so you always know who is calling. More »

8:00 PM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By Sean Fallon
1,654 views, 11 comments

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Santa AT&T Gives Away Free Holiday Ringtones

AT&T is getting into the Christmas spirit and is serving up free Holiday ringtones, answer tones and a game called Santa Tower Bloxx to its customers. The ringtones include festive classics such as "Jingle Bells," "The Dreidel Song" and "Noche de Paz." The holiday answer tones featured in the promotion include "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," "Feliz Navidad" and "Wizards in Winter." You can text the word "GIFT" to 7230 and a reply message will be sent with the link to download the ringtone. The carrier does show its Scrooge side as texting and downloading fees will still apply. There's no word on how long this offer will last, but my guess is it won't be around past Dec. 25 whether you're naughty or nice. [I4U News]

2:51 PM on Thu Nov 29 2007
By hook
1,389 views, 2 comments

Latest by ZitosGhost: Wow, seeing as it is winter, I can't wait for the AT&T free ice cube giveaway to feed the homeless. more »

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Software Guru Rips Apple for Cashing in on Closed Systems

A few days ago, veteran Mac software developer and Apple community gadfly Wil Shipley published a tirade against Steve Jobs and Apple for limiting development on products like iPod and iPhone. He says what motivates the company now is not quality assurance, the usual excuse, but profiteering: More »

8:42 AM on Fri Sep 21 2007
By Wilson Rothman
9,258 views, 50 comments

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7.4.2 iTunes Update Patches Some Ringtone Hacks

iTunes 7.4.2 just came out, and its reported that it breaks some custom ringtone hacks. Apple's been open-minded about hardware changes, but anything infringing upon iTunes sales has been patched pretty aggressively in the past. Ringtones, too, it seems. The file renaming hack to cease working. Sendsong and manual copying of ringtones to the iPhone still seem to work as do a few of our older methods. [Macrumors] Updated: Custom Ringtone hacked once more.

7:06 PM on Mon Sep 17 2007
By Brian Lam
9,210 views, 9 comments

Someone discovered yet another way to get ringtones onto your iPhone for free. This time it involves a command line editor, some changing of metadata, and your regular songs will be come ringtones immediately. [Xanga via TUAW]

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How to: 8 Ways to Get Ringtones Onto Your iPhone

[Depreciated since iTunes 7.4.2] Purchasable iPhone Ringtones are officially here. However, with the discovery of free iPhone ringtones from inside iTunes 7.4 (and the rediscovery of them in iTunes 7.4.1), most of you won't want to pay $0.99 for the privilege of using a 30-second version of a song you've already purchased. Here are eight alternative ways to get ringtones onto your iPhone. More »

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12:40 PM on Tue Sep 11 2007
By Jason Chen
154,544 views, 20 comments

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iTunes Ringtones Now Available

Crazy Frog and iPhone fans can at last rejoice, as iTunes is now providing ringtones, just as we reported last week. You know the drill: get a 30 seconds ringtone of some of the songs you already bought in the iTunes Music Store for an extra 99 cents. Or alternatively, you can avoid the rip-off and make your own ringtones for free using the alternative method.

5:07 AM on Tue Sep 11 2007
By AddyDugdale
14,772 views, 18 comments

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Ringles: The Next Ringtone Product You Won't Buy

Apple's offering of $0.99 ringtones was just the latest effort for the recording industry to sell you a smaller version of songs you already own in order to use them on your phones. Following up that announcement, two record companies have just announced Ringles, which is essentially a CD with 3 singles, a ringtone and a CD Cover for $6 to $7. Sony BMG and Universal will be the first out with 50 titles and 20 titles respectively during October/November. Are you excited? Yeah, us neither. Just open up an audio editor, chop your music file into a 30- second piece and you're done. [Reuters via Boy Genius via Sci Fi]

8:00 AM on Mon Sep 10 2007
By Jason Chen
1,086 views, 10 comments

Latest by fussnfeathers: Actually, I see this as a win-win if the public buys it. Most kids (read- those really into ringtones) only want the hottest track off an album, leaving a good market for CD singles. The key here is the ringtone more »

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The DrumPants, Turning Musicians Into Instruments One Leg at a Time


And you thought ringtones were annoying. The DrumPants, created by Tyler Freeman, are the combination of two great inventions, MIDI instruments and pants. Basically he just gutted a MIDI keyboard and hooked it up to a couple piezo transducers wired into his pants that act as "drum heads". However, the result is actually pretty impressive. If you're truly interested in making your own, there are instructions over at his site as well as more videos. [Product Page via Fresh Creation]

1:46 PM on Fri Sep 7 2007
By blongo3
17,177 views, 32 comments

Latest by rndmx: Its nothing all that new. My friend and I did it last year for our percussion ensemble using a Roland DM5, from 1995. The technology has been around for along time I guess pants would be pretty sick to have more »

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Free iPhone Ringtones From Directly Inside iTunes 7.4

A MacRumors forum member discovered that you can actually get free ringtones directly inside iTunes by just changing around a file extension. All official purchased ringtones have the .M4R extension, so all you have to do is rename any AAC file to a M4R file to get it to show up in iTunes under Ringtones. Sync to your phone and you're done. To delete the ringtones, you may have to go into the Ringtones folder under your iTunes music directory. Zero cents beats 99 cents any day. [MacRumors]

11:28 AM on Fri Sep 7 2007
By Jason Chen
228,076 views, 34 comments

Latest by n/a: I just found a cool site where you can actually download a bunch of iphone ringtones free... this is actually a nice site where isn't a catch or any signup or any of that stuff.. kinda unusual... [www.outerspaceringtones.com] they have more »

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iTunes Ringtone Editor Hands-On


After a summer of waiting for ringtones for the iPhone, they're finally here. And Apple delivers with a package that's easy and convenient to use. iTunes lets you know which tracks you can turn into a ringtone by displaying a bell next to them. More »

3:51 PM on Wed Sep 5 2007
By Adrian Covert
17,905 views, 30 comments

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Apple to Sell Ringtones Bundled With Regular Songs?

The Post says they've got confirmation that Apple will start selling ringtones to iPhone users using iTunes. Although they couldn't confirm pricing, they could say that you will probably be able to make any song you buy from iTunes into a ringtone. More »

2:15 PM on Fri Aug 31 2007
By Jason Chen
4,621 views, 16 comments

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Free iPhone Ringtones from iTunes

TUAW's post on how to rip the 30-second track samples from iTunes for use on an iPhone is evil, brilliant and I love it. The secret: export a playlist from the iTunes store, download the MP4 sample clips, and upload them using iFuntastic. More »

3:57 PM on Fri Jul 27 2007
By Brian Lam
54,415 views, 5 comments

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How to Swap iPhone Ringtones in 7-EZ Steps

iFuntastic is a Jailbreak GUI/Checklist for simplifying the still complicated iPhone Ringtone hack. Previously, there was a tutorial, but this UI does a lot of the scripting for you, including download of the tools, prepping ringtones, unlocking the Phone, etc. Warning: Downloading and running random apps on your Mac can be dangerous for your software. We're trying to confirm it works, first hand. UPDATE: No dice. Maybe you're having more luck. UPDATE2: Works. If step 4 fails, try once more hitting the skip button on step 4. [iPhoneAlley via MyiTablet]

8:12 PM on Mon Jul 23 2007
By Brian Lam
8,110 views, 14 comments

Latest by JonnyQ: Guy with phone: -I got this cool ringtone, can I send it to you with Bluetooth? - No, my phone doesn't do that. - OK, via MMS then? - No, sorry. - Aah, you got an iPhone. I'll send the ringtone to you in more »

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