Andy’s iPhone Blog

UPDATE: The 1.1.1 firmware update for the iPhone “broke” iToner and erased any custom ringtones on your phone that were created by it. With iToner version 1.0.3, Ambrosia Software has fixed these problems.

You can create ringtones for your iPhone using Apple’s iTunes and selected songs from the iTunes Store. Apple has made, as usual, a very slick interface for downloading the song and editing it inside iTunes. I, however, have lots of MP3 files not purchased from the iTunes Store. I also do NOT want my choices limited or to spend 99 cents for every ringtone! Ambrosia Software has come up with iToner, a $15 application to create and sync ringtones with your iPhone. Combine iToner with the Open Source audio editor application, Audacity, and you have the ability to create, edit and sync the music or sounds you want!

Apple has just released iLife ‘08. As part of the iPhoto upgrade, there is a new feature that allows you to create Web Galleries. These are similar to regular albums but automatically sync to a photo gallery on your .Mac site. One option to an iPhoto web gallery is to enable emailing of pictures to the gallery. You attach pictures as attachments and send to your gallery email address. A new option in the iPhone “Photos” application appeared “magically” when Apple released iLife ‘08. You can now select a photo and “Send to Web Gallery”. Good stuff!

The nice people at Content.Robot have come up with iWPhone, a WordPress Plugin and Theme that automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone. It detects the iPhone’s User Agent and serves up the content with the special theme only to iPhone visitors, all other browsers will view your WordPress blog with your current theme. This blog takes advantage of this tool - as you can see if you are browsing this on an iPhone

iPhone Atlas bills itself as “A resource for Apple’s iPhone, containing guides to usage, troubleshooting information, pertinent news and more”. The site is produced by TechTracker Inc. - who also manage VersionTracker and MacFixIt. I have found the site to be informative and useful.  It is published using WordPress, the personal publishing platform, as is this site