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How-To: Create iPhone Ringtones in Garageband

Written on October 30, 2008 by Tom Reestman and 19 people have commented

If you own an iPhone and a Mac you can easily create ringtones within Garageband. I love music, but am not a music maker, so I don’t really use Garageband at all. Luckily, you don’t have to know much of anything about the program to easily create ringtones for your iPhone. Trust me. If I [...]

Free Custom iPhone Ringtones Using Only iTunes

Written on August 07, 2008 by Jenny Kortina and 657 people have commented

Create free ringtones for your iPhone using only iTunes and songs you already have on your computer (This method only works with songs that are DRM free. To create ringtones using DRM protected songs please use this method). This method has been tested and works with iTunes 7.7.1 and iPhone 2.0.1 firmware.
To create custom [...]

Don’t be a jerk about ringtones

Written on September 14, 2007 by Todd Baur and 19 people have commented

I was excited to learn that Ringtones were now a part of iTunes. I thought it would be great if I could mash up some stuff in GarageBand, or shoot, even my current iTunes tracks, and easily get them on my iPhone. I hurriedly downloaded my new copy of iTunes to get this ability [...]

Apple, lay off the ringtones a bit

Written on September 13, 2007 by Josh Pigford and 13 people have commented

Putting aside my general feelings about how annoyed I am by the constant noise of ringtones in any public place, Apple is obviously free to offer any type of product they want.
What does it in for me, however, is that Apple is pushing their ringtone product at me when I don’t even own an iPhone.

In [...]

iPods Galore – “The Beat Goes On” Apple Special Event Overview

Written on September 05, 2007 by Josh Pigford and 12 people have commented

Today at 10AM PST Apple held a special event called “The Beat Goes On” in which a whole slew of new iPod and iTunes announcements were made. The entire iPod line was “refreshed” including the addition of a new iPod Touch model that is similar to the iPhone. Here’s an overview of the new products [...]

Add Ringtones to your iPhone

Written on July 17, 2007 by Josh Pigford and 6 people have commented

Hack The iPhone has posted an in-depth walkthrough on how to get custom ringtones working on your iPhone.
It requires quite a bit of hackery and, if you’re not careful, could very well kill off your iPhone altogether.
I honestly don’t think I’d want to risk that considering it costs a small fortune to purchase an [...]