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Download Ringtones Wirelessly – Overview

Brooke — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:14:21 +0000

Another new feature of the 3.1 firmware is the ability to download ringtones wirelessly from your iPhone or iPod touch. Currently there are over 30,000 ringtones available from all 4 of the major music labels. The ringtones are $1.29 (USD) each.

To view this new feature, you will need to go into the iTunes application and then the More option on the lower menu bar. Here you will see a Ringtones option in the menu. Once selected, you have the ability to view Featured, Top Tens (by genres) or Genres of ringtones.

If you see a song from the list that piques your interest, select it. This will bring you to an info page that contains the Artist, Album title, Genre and Release Date of the song. You are also able to preview the ringtone, read reviews about the ringtone and see more media by the artist (which include songs, albums, videos… etc).

You can listen to the ringtone by tapping on the ringtones title. The ringtones range from about 20 second to 30 seconds in length. Each ringtone can be quickly purchased by tapping on the purchase price which will switch to a Buy Now button.

Once you select Buy Now, you are giving the option to assign the ringtone as the default ringtone (that would be your main ringtone), assign it to a specific contact or Done which would just add the ringtone into the list of ringtones available on your iPhone. Once you have made your selection, you will need put in your iTunes password.

Voilà, a new ringtone.

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3.1 Firmware Available Today – Genius and Ringtones

Brooke — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:39:49 +0000

Apple has just announced at the “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it.” event that the 3.1 firmware will be available today in iTunes. The update will be free for all iPhones and for iPod touches that are already on the 3.0 firmware. The 3.1 firmware includes a few new features however, they only touched on a few which include; Genius and Ringtones.

The Genius feature will make recommendations for new apps based on the apps you already own. It will give you a list of recommended apps and why they have recommended them. The Genius section will be located in the App Store application in the Features option. At the top of the Features page it will now have tabs for New, What’s Hot and Genius.

The second new feature is Ringtones. There will be over 30,000 ringtones available from all 4 of the major music labels. They ringtones will be sold for a $1.29 (USD) each.

Remember, you may want to hold off on updating until we have more info on how jailbreaking/unlocking will go.

WinterBoard Mods

Brooke — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:27:46 +0000

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

Below are a few WinterBoard mods that are available in Cydia. The theme, Tinker Bell (via BigBoss), changes just the basic icons and also adds a wallpaper to the Tinker Bell wallpaper to the lock screen. There is also a nice SMS mod called Winter Night SMS (via BigBoss). If you are starting to winter/Holiday itch…you might want to check out this SMS theme. Speaking of holidays…the last mod is Christmas Ringtones (via BigBoss). If you install Christmas Ringtones it will add three ringtones (Holly Jolly Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch) in with your stock ringtones. This is a very easy way to add ringtones to your iPhone! Holly Jolly Christmas and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer are the traditional renditions of the song and have great audio quality. You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch does not work (at least I can’t get it to).

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iRinger – Free Ringtone Maker

Douglas — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:03:36 +0000

Yes, it’s really free. No kidding. Catch? Only works on Windows… But that’s ok ’cause if you’re on a Mac you can just use GarageBand. Here’s a video of how it works.

The sweet thing about this program is that it runs without installing on your system. So you can just throw it on a thumbdrive and it’s ready to go. It’s pretty simple and exports right to iTunes. Works great!

You can download it at www.iringer.net

VideosTone 1.3

Brooke — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:12:25 +0000

The update to version 1.3 of VideosTone adds a few new abilities to the application. The app is now able to detect system vibrations which means, if you have your iPhone set to vibrate when you receive a call, VideosTone now recognizes that and your iPhone will vibrate even when VideosTone is enabled. The same is also true for the silence switch. VideosTone now detects the silence switch which means you are able to silent the ringer while a video ringtone is playing. The iPod volume settings are now also able to be detected by VideosTone. One thing I am really glad to see with this update is that VideosTone is now compatible with Kate!! That is huge for me. Also, there has been an additional video ringtone added in the Video section. Other than that, the application functions the same an in the previous version. You can get VideosTone through the iFoneTec source.

Update: Below is a video of what the new video ringtone looks like.

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Watch “New Video Ringtone” on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

vWallpaper 0.93 & SkrewCommon 1.49

Douglas — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:32:51 +0000

The update to SkrewCommon and vWallpaper gives vWallpaper some nice new features. When you select Video Ringtones you will notice that the Select Video option has been changed to Select Global Video and that there is a new Manage Contacts feature. The Select Global Video option still allows you to choose one video ringtone for all incoming calls. A cool new feature is the Manage Contacts feature which allows you to select video ringtones for specific contacts! When you select Manage Contacts, you will get a list of your contacts. You can then choose a contact and it will bring up the list of videos you have downloaded. Just select the video you would like as that contact’s ringtone. You will then be brought back to the contact list. The contact’s with video ringtones assigned to them will have a delete icon next to them. To delete a video ringtone, tap the icon and then select Delete. It will only delete the video ringtone and not the actual contact.

Another very nice new feature is when you select a video to assign it to a contact or as the global video, you will get to see a preview of the video. An excellent feature! The update also allows you to use videos from MxTube as a video ringtone. The only feature I would love to see now is the ability to view the videos before I download them. That way I do not have to download them and then delete them…it would save a ton of time. You can get both vWallpaper and SkrewCommon through the Skrew source.

VideosTone vs. vWallpaper

Brooke — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:08:54 +0000

Quite a few people have been asking what the difference is between, VideosTone and vWallpaper. Below is a breakdown of both the applications (the numbers are corresponding).

VideosTone
1. Ability to set a video ringtone for all incoming calls or you can choose video ringtones for specific contacts
2. You can preview the videos before selecting them
3. Ability to set both the audio ringtone and video ringtone
4. You have to manually SSH in more videos to be used as ringtones (comes with one default video ringtone)
5. Shows up as an option in your stock Settings app on you iPhone
6. Free
7. Available through iFoneTec Source

vWallpaper
1. If you set a video ringtone…that is the ringtone for all incoming calls
2. You can only see the file names of the videos
3. Can select only a video…whatever audio is with that video is what is used as the ringtone
4. You can download more videos to be used as ringtones from within the application
5. Shows up as an application on iPhone’s SpringBoard
6. Free
7. Available through Skrew source

Let me know in the comments which application you prefer…I really think it comes down to personal preference.

Ringtones 2.87

Brooke — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:45:23 +0000

Today, version 2.87 of Ringtones showed up in my Installer in Recent Packages. However, version 2.87 of Ringtones has already been released (a month ago!). I did notice that when I installed the “update” it changed the application icon. There are no other visual changes to the application so, I’m not really sure what the deal is…maybe just an icon update. You can get Ringtones via the Skrew source.

vWallpaper 0.92 & SkrewCommon 1.48

Brooke — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:44:00 +0000

The update to SkrewCommon and vWallpaper adds the ability to set video ringtones. When you open the application, you will see that the main menu has changed and the options now include; Video Wallpaper, Video Ringtones, Visit Application Page and Donate. The Video Wallpaper option itself has not changed. When select the Video Ringtones option, you will get a menu with the following options; Enable VideoRingtone, Select Video, Download Videos, Videos Repository (which is not available yet) and Restart SpringBoard.

There is one default video ringtone already in the Select Videos option, you can add more videos by downloading them from the Download Videos section. As of now, there are eight videos available to download from the Download Videos section. After you have selected a video from the Select Video section, you will want to enable videoringtones and then restart your SpringBoard. The video ringtone that you select will be automatically added as the ringtone for all incoming calls. The only thing that drives me crazy about this application is that there is no back button. The Home button brings you all the way out to the main menu when I only want to go back one menu!! Other than that, the application worked good. I did have to turn off my VideosTone ringtones in order to get the vWallpaper Video Ringtone to work. You can get both SkrewCommon and vWallpaper through the Skrew source.

VideosTone 1.2

Brooke — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:55:53 +0000

The update to version 1.2 of VideosTone makes the Personalize Settings option available without purchasing the application…which is cool! The Personalize Settings option allows you to apply Video Ringers to select contacts. When you choose the Personalize Settings option, you will see the Select a Person field…this will allow you to choose a contact from your Contact List. Once you have selected a contact, you can then select a phone number for that contact. It will automatically bring you back to the Personalize Settings screen and the contact’s Name and Number will be automatically added to the Name and Mobile fields.

You can then choose the RingTone and Video you would like to apply for that contact. Another cool new feature with the update, is when you select a video, it will play a preview of that video. This helps in knowing exactly what video you are choosing. Once all the information is entered (Name, Mobile, RingTone, Video) you can go back to the Main Menu by selecting VideosTone in the upper left corner. To customize another contact’s ringtone, just go back into the Personalize Settings field and repeat the steps. The only confusing part about this whole process is that it does not list which contacts you have changed. If you want to delete a contact’s VideosTone, you have to remember which contact it is, pull it up with the Select a Person field, select the correct number, scroll down and select Delete this Contact VideosTone. I have a feeling this could get confusing very quickly. You can get VideosTone through the iFoneTec source.

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