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Custom Ringtones For Your iPhone

1) Open the song in quicktime pro and crop the song down to less then 40 seconds.

2) Save song to desktop as AIF.

3) Open AIF in itunes, convert AIF to AAC (m4a) 128kpbs. (Note: If you already have itunes set to rip to 128kbps AACs then just right click and select convert to AAC, if not then go into your Preferences and change the importing settings to 128kbps AAC.

4) Once the song is converted to AAC, select it in iTunes and hit command+r to show where it is on your computer. Drag that to your desktop and delete the listing for it in iTunes.

5) Now download this: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/25788/makeiphoneringtone
MakeiPhoneRingtone is free and automates the process of changing the extension and placing it in the ringtones folder and adding it to itunes. You will want Version 1.3 which now works with iTunes v7.5 and iPhone OS v1.1.2.

6) Open up MakeiPhoneRingtone, drag the AAC that is on your desktop into the MakeiPhoneRingtone window.

7) Connect iPhone, select the iPhone in iTunes and check the ringtones sync window, the song should now be listed. If not, but the song is listed under ringtones in your itunes library, then the song may have been too long and you will have to shorten it and go back through the process.

Using Mac Mail Without A Mac Account

Want to use Mac Mail program and don't have a Mac Mail account? No problem, use Gmail!

Just go to Mail's Preferences and select the Accounts tab. Click the + button on the bottom left to add new account. Enter your username and password for Gmail, and check the box to "setup automatically".

For outgoing mail use the free Gmail IMAP setup on there email servers. You would use the IMAP if it is showing itself as available inside your Gmail settings (online). If its there then the following pae will show you have to setup Gmail IMAP for your outgoing mail.

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77663&topic=12761