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iTunes offers first Beatles ringtones

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 22nd, 2012)

Apple started selling albums from The Beatles last year and now the company has released a set of ringtones taken from the band's most popular albums. The selections span a wide range of titles including early titles like A Hard Day's Night and later tracks like the 1970 chart-topper Let It Be. ...

iOS 5 to sell text alert tones through iTunes

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 8th, 2011)

The beta version of iOS 5 includes a new feature that lets you buy ringtones for alert messages, and it's just one of the 200 new features that are to debut in the new operating system. The ringtone option is found in the settings menu under the sounds. Users select any of the available ...

Apple working on video ringtones

by Dana Franklin (Mar 7th, 2011)

Patently Apple recently uncovered a patent filed by Apple that describes methods for creating video ringtones for telephonic iOS devices like the iPhone. The technology is designed to allow users to automatically combine sound and video from various sources, including iTunes and iMovie, to ...

iTunes 10 drops custom ringtone purchasing

by Michael Rose (Sep 5th, 2010)

Along with the up-front iTunes 10 changes (social awareness, monochrome sidebar, new-attitude icon), it looks like Apple has quietly dropped one store-centric feature from the latest version. Roberto Baldwin at Mac|Life notes that the feature allowing users to buy a section of a track from the ...

Ringtones and a twist with AutoRingtone Pro Uncensored

by Mel Martin (Jun 23rd, 2010)

It's not hard getting ringtones on your iPhone. You certainly don't have to buy them. If, however, you'd like something a bit more customized, there is a nice app called AutoRingtone Pro Uncensored. In a nutshell, it lets you pick out what the ringtone should say. It can be just an announcement ...

Apple adds 30-second samples to browser-based iTunes previews

by Dave Caolo (Jan 7th, 2010)

Last November, Apple launched browser-based iTunes previews, which gave customers information on a song or artist before pushing them out to the iTunes Store. It's a handy, welcome change. And now this week, they've added 30-second song samples to those preview pages (check it out). Just as you do ...

Sony offers 1,000 ringtones for iPhone for 20 bucks. Pass.

by Mel Martin (Nov 4th, 2009)

Let's file this under 'really bad ideas done poorly.' Sony would like to sell you 1,000 ringtones, sound effects, and comedy voices on a data DVD that's just oh so ready to import into iTunes. Sony doesn't seem to offer a comparable product for other cellphones, like maybe the Sony Ericsson brand, ...

First Look: PocketMac Ringtone Studio 2.0 for BlackBerry

by Steven Sande (Jul 30th, 2009)

PocketMac has been in the business of connecting Macs and handheld devices for quite some time, so it's not surprising that they have decided to start working on other ways to make our mobile devices more useful. Since our readers include Mac owners who use RIM BlackBerry devices, I jumped on the ...

More easy ringtones with Ringer

by Mel Martin (Jul 21st, 2009)

Just the other day we reviewed one ringtone maker for the iPhone, and now another worthy app has crossed my desk. Ringer, from Pixel Research Labs, is another very easy to use app for the creation of iPhone ringtones. You can use any non-protected media file, including videos, and select it from the ...

Ringtones for iPhone dead easy with this Mac app

by Mel Martin (Jul 16th, 2009)

There are a lot of ways to get ringtones on an iPhone. Some are easy. Some not so easy. Some are free. Some cost money. A new release of PocketMac Ringtone Studio is about the easiest way to get ringtones on your phone, but it is not the cheapest. I think many users will be glad to buy the app, ...

iPhone for Newbies: Ringtones, double contacts, periods, and AppleCare

by David Winograd (Jun 22nd, 2009)

I just bought my first iPhone, a 32 GB iPhone 3G S, and found that that there is an abundance of information out there covering just about every aspect of its use. As an iPhone virgin, most of this is new to me, but I'm sure it's old hat to most. Apple, however, is set to sell over half a million ...

Ringtone Recorder Pro provides iPhones a roundabout route for ringtone capture

by Mel Martin (Jun 2nd, 2009)

There is no shortage of ringtone solutions for getting tones onto the iPhone, especially after Apple opened up the phone enough to allow user generated ringtones without buying them from the iTunes store. Now there is a bit of a new twist on the ringtone creation game. Ringtone Recorder Pro [App ...

Audiko: an easy (and free) way to create ringtones

by Mel Martin (Dec 12th, 2008)

When the iPhone came out, things looked pretty bleak in the ringtone department. You were supposed to use the sounds that came with the iPhone, and like it. Things loosened up a bit, as Apple thought it was just fine to buy them from the iTunes store. If you already had the music you wanted to make ...

Go Hollywood with a free "In a world" ringtone

by Steven Sande (Aug 24th, 2008)

You know those movie trailers that begin with the narrator intoning the familiar words "In a world...."? Beau Weaver, a Hollywood narrator and diehard TUAW reader who does a lot of those trailers, was asked by his friends to create an iPhone ringtone that played on the same phrase. He did, and ...

TUAW Tip: Make iPhone ringtones with GarageBand

by Steven Sande (Jul 8th, 2008)

An earlier post about PocketMac Ringtone Studio for iPhone reminded me of how I put together ringtones for my iPhone. I just fire up GarageBand and iTunes, do a little quick magic, and out come the ringtones I want. This doesn't work with protected files such as those you've purchased from the ...