Create iPhone Ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1

With GarageBand 4.1.1 you can export your original song, your original audio recordings, or use Apple Loops and iLife jingles to create a custom ringtone for your iPhone.

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Google Pre-Launches New iPhone Interface

If you visit Google.com from an iPhone, you now get a menu of services to choose from - home (search box), Gmail, Calendar, Reader and More (docs, sms, goog-411, news, photos, blogger and notebook). It’s basically all of the core Google services, accessible from a single easy to use menu. Accessing the site through other mobile devices continues to deliver the old Google Mobile interface. Read on for more screens.

The 20 Best iPod Utilities

With a new generation of iPods on the market this holiday season, your reliable old iPod may not seem as shiny as it once did. But with the help of third party applications and utilities, you can unlock tons of useful functionality you never knew was there and revive that aging iPod so it doesn't look quite so bad next to its successors. Whether new or old, the following 20 iPod utilities can help you get the most from your iPod.

uTorrent WebUI For The iPhone

The iPhone UI for uTorrent can be used to access uTorrent from your iPhone when you’re away from your computer. The interface is optimized for the iPhone and uses the regular uTorrent WebUI. At the moment the iPhone UI lets you pause, resume and add new torrents. The iPhone UI also shows some status info such as the download/upload speed and the number of seeds and peers connected to the torrent, which should be sufficient to track the progress of your downloads.

iFlix iPhone Netflix Queue App

I got five words for you: Drag and Drop Netflix Queue. This app by Brent Jensen that supports multiple accounts, downloads thumbnails of movies, lists new and top 100 movies, also has a search function.

iPhone Users Can Now Drop Data Plan

For those of you who keep your iPhone connected via WiFi entirely more often than through EDGE, listen up. As of now, it appears that iPhone users can login to their AT&T myAccount page, surf on over to the "Add / Manage Features" section and opt out of the (previously required) monthly data plan. Making the change will save you a whole $20 per month -- or $240 per year, if you prefer that perspective. Granted, you'll also lose visual voicemail in the process, but at least you're now being presented the option, right?

Apple to Release iPhone SDK in February

Apple has just announced that it will be releasing an SDK for the iPhone in february allowing for third party application developement. The SDK will also allow developers to create applications for iPod Touch.

"It will take until February to release an SDK because we’re trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once—provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc. This is no easy task. Some claim that viruses and malware are not a problem on mobile phones—this is simply not true. There have been serious viruses on other mobile phones already, including some that silently spread from phone to phone over the cell network. As our phones become more powerful, these malicious programs will become more dangerous. And since the iPhone is the most advanced phone ever, it will be a highly visible target."

Gmail for the iPhone

Stupid. If I were to buy an iPhone, I would have done it for the "real" internet.

iPhone/iPod Touch Remote Control

Apple's bringing back the old plug in remote for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

iToner 1.0 Released

iToner enables you to quickly transfer custom ringtones for your iPhone - without modifying, hacking or having to reset your iPhone. Simply drag and drop your MP3 or AAC audio files on iToner's window, click the Sync button, and you're done! Even better, your ringtones will continue to work with future iPhone OS updates. iToner is a $15 shareware app, but a fully functional demo is available for download.

Facebook's iPhone Interface

Facebook has just released an iPhone formated version of the site that works and looks amazing. Comparable to Helio's MySpace application. Try it out at iphone.facebook.com. As an added bonnus you can bookmark it and tell firfox to open it in a sidebar and now you have a Facebook Sidebar.

iPhone NES Emulator: Fast, Usable, Totally Rewritten

So what happens when someone releases a functional but extremely slow NES emulator? Two of the finest iPhone hackers spend all night re-writing the thing to make it blazing fast and include multi-touch support. Behold the optimized NES App created by NerveGas with help from NightWatch/Patrick Walton. You can download and run the app today and the source will shortly be rolled into the official SVN.The NES App has been getting updates all day. To keep on top of the updates, check out Nate True's iPhone archive, which is where new updates will appear.

iPhone Skins

For $6.99 you can get an iPhone sticker skin complete with digital background to blend it all together.

iFuntastic 2.0 iPod Modding Application

bitSplit has released version 2.0 of the software, which enables Mac users to add ringtones, change the carrier logo, and reorder their iPhone applications.

Digg iPhone Beta Live!

Head on over to digg.com/iphone to check out the new iPhone friendly interface.

Apple Plans a Cheaper Nano-based Phone

Apple plans to launch a cheaper version of the iPhone in the fourth quarter that could be based on the ultra-slim iPod Nano music player, according to a JP Morgan report.

Kevin Chang, a JP Morgan analyst based in Taiwan, cited people in the supply channel that he did not name and an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office for his report.

Apple filed a patent application document that refers to a multifunctional handheld device with a circular touch pad control, similar to the Nano’s scroll wheel.

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Ten Things You Should Know Before You Buy an iPhone

1) Not all iPod Accessories and headphones will work with the iPhone
2) AT&T is Evil
3) No video recording or MMS
4) No Instant Messaging
5) Not for business use
6) It's not a full iPod Replacement, and it has no games
7) It's not a smartphone
8) The data connection is slow
9) There's no GPS
10) There are no custom ringtones

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