Want to use an existing mp3 file as a ring tone for your iPhone?

In a few steps you can.

1. Choose your song in iTunes, right click, choose ‘Get Info’.
2. Under the ‘Options’ tab there is a ‘Start time’ and ‘Stop time’, edit your song so that it plays only what you want. Don’t worry you can undo the Start and Stop times when we are done.
3. Click ‘Okay’ to save changes to your Start and Stop times.
4. Right click the song again and choose ‘Create AAC Version’. This will create a new file and add it to iTunes. You should see it right below your old file.
5. Right click the old song and under the ‘Options’ tab reset the Start and Stop times.
6. Right click the new song and choose ‘Show in Finder’ (or equivalent PC option).
7. When you find this new file, rename the extension from m4a to m4r.
8. Now delete the new file in iTunes, right click on the new file, choose ‘Delete’, then ‘Remove’ but choose to ‘Keep File’.
9. Now drag your .m4r file back onto the Library icon in iTunes.

You’re done!

Reminder: make sure you are syncing your ringtones to your phone.

My dad’s ring tone is now Yakety Sax, I figure Benny Hill would be proud.

(Tested on iTunes 9.0.1 for OS X.)

Taking the VIA train from Toronto to Smiths Falls gives me the chance to test out the iPhone tethering.

So far pretty good, only a few dead zones one big one near the Darlington power station and Edge only zone at the Port Hope VIA station.

Having internet on the VIA trains isn’t new, they have wifi, but it is nice not having to worry about it.

UPDATE: Huge Edge section from Port Hope to Cobourg, gah.

UPDATE 2: Edge from Cobourg to Belleville.

UPDATE 3: East of Belleville picked up 3G again, I think coverage is good if you can see the 401 from the train

This has been bugging me for a while, I use Firefox (3.0.11) on OS X and Windows XP and on both OSes Firefox messes up the favicons in my bookmarks.

(Aside: favicons are the images next to the url for some websites.)

Sometimes the favicons will change randomly. Example, I use delicious.com to manage my bookmarks and on Windows XP the bookmark for delicious seems to ‘pickup’ whatever link I clicked last from delicious.

Not a huge deal, but come on, this isn’t rocket surgery here.

LCBO gave us a scare with the strike threats, talk about a one day sales boost, wow.

So the plan for this weekend is to get a 1.0 OpenWiimote out the door. I have an action plan, just need to execute it. Easy right? Hah.

Lots going on, not much posting.

Follow me on twitter, yay, here:

http://twitter.com/gordonturner

New project (using Google code) to provide a processing library for the wiimote:

http://code.google.com/p/openwiimote/