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How to Create a Ringtone Using iTunes

John — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:23:19 +0000

A very simple tutorial on how to create a ringtone from one of your existing iTunes music tracks. Just tried it and it works great.

RTL Reconstruct Kubica’s Canada Crash

John — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:15:36 +0000

German TV channel RTL have made a computer reconstruction of Robert Kubica’s crash in Montreal the other weekend.

(The link is a Quicktime movie).

The video highlights the various safety devices working during the high-speed accident.

Here’s the actual accident:

Apple Evolves

John — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:14:48 +0000

I hate to admit it, but I was sitting on my sofa last night watching the textual reports from MacRumors.com coming in on the MacWorld Keynote. I started watching it at work at 5.15pm (the GMT when the keynote started), left work around 5.40pm and got home just after 6.15pm. In that time, Steve had unveiled the iPhone.

I frantically scrolled back down the page to see exactly how he’d unveiled it — it wasn’t the ‘One More Thing’ that I thought it would — it came right after the Apple TV announcement. I have to admit, I was 50/50 as to whether Apple would ever release a phone — they’re a computer company, right? — but they broke the mould when they released the iPod, and we knew the iTV/Apple TV box was coming so perhaps it’s not that surprising that they’re branching out into telecommunications.

I’ve yet to watch the keynote cast — there’s a lunchtime task — but from what I’ve seen on Apple’s site the iPhone appears just great. Their engineers have spent a lot of time working on the interface and interaction methods, figuring out what the phone should do (and what it should not do) and how it should do it. First impressions are that Steve’s right — current smart phones do not appear so smart now. I know that when it’s released (apparently by Q4 2007 in Europe) I shall want one.

So I guess it’s not surprising that ‘Apple Computer Inc.’ is no more. Long live ‘Apple Inc.’!

Amongst the furore, I wonder what’s happening with Leopard? Cabel Sasser has an interesting piece on a new patent filed by Apple for an interface creation tool — perhaps a resolution independent interface? Who knows. Hopefully we’ll be double-wowed by Leopard when it’s announced.

MacWorld 2007

John — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:57:51 +0000

There’s around an hour to go until Mr Jobs comes on stage and puts us all out of our misery. Will it be a phone? The ‘iTV’ product? Video iPod? New look (and resolution independent) Leopard? Who knows.

MacRumors are covering the event live (albeit in a textual, non-video type way) as Apple aren’t providing a live feed for us non-US citizens. LoopRumors are also text-covering it.

What Has Leopard Got in Store?

John — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:22:07 +0000

The start of the annual WWDC always sparks a frenzy amongst Apple afficionados about what new and exciting features will make it into the next release of OS X.

There are many ideas being presented (John Gruber has his yearly WWDC prelude up), some good, some not so good, but I love the whole sense of anticipation.

Over at Veerle’s Blog there’s a lovely nostalgic post showing the various incarnations of OS X, from the Public Beta through to Tiger. Check out the bevels of doom in iTunes in 10.1!!!

And for a bit of fun and to get your Mac juices flowing, check out the Fake Leopard Screenshot contest winners over on Phill’s blog. The winning entry is excellent.