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มาทำ ringtones สำหรับ iPhone ใช้เองกันดีกว่า

September 23, 2009 12:31 am

เนื่องจาก iTunes store ประเทศไทยยังไม่มีเพลง ไม่มี ringtones ให้ download
งั้นทำเองเลยดีกว่า

สิ่งที่ต้องการ : iTunes version ไหนก็ได้ (ผมใช้? version 9) ขั้นตอนมีดังนี้

1. Change folder option to display filename extension by unselect “Hide extensions for known file types”
2. Open iTunes
3. Enable Ringtones on iTunes
4. Select a song you want it to be a ringtone
5. Right click the song then select “Get Info”
6. Select “Options” tab
7. Change stop time to 0:40 (40s) and stick both start & stop time
8. Play it to make sure it start & stop as setted
9. Right click the song and select “Create AAC version”
10. It will make copy of the song but 40s long. You can’t make ringtone longer than 40s
11. Drag the 40s version of the song to somewhere on your machine such as Desktop
12. Rename from songname.m4a to songname.m4r
13. Delete 40s version from iTunes library
14. Remove start & stop time from original song in iTunes library
15. Double-click the file renamed on desktop (the *.m4r), it will be added to iTunes > Ringtones library automatically
16. Sync the iPhone

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August 15, 2009 9:59 pm

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The Vanilla Ice Cream Problem

For the engineers among us who understand that the obvious is not always the solution, and that the facts, no matter how implausible, are still the facts …

A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors: “This is the second time I have written you, and I don’t blame you for not answering me, because I kind of sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we have a tradition in our family of ice cream for dessert after dinner each night. But the kind of ice cream varies so, every night, after we’ve eaten, the whole family votes on which kind of ice cream we should have and I drive down to the store to get it. It’s also a fact that I recently purchased a new Pontiac and since then my trips to the store have created a problem. You see, every time I buy vanilla ice cream, when I start back from the store my car won’t start. If I get any other kind of ice cream, the car starts just fine. I want you to know I’m serious about this question, no matter how silly it sounds: ‘What is there about a Pontiac that makes it not start when I get vanilla ice cream, and easy to start whenever I get any other kind?'”

The Pontiac President was understandably skeptical about the letter, but sent an engineer to check it out anyway. The latter was surprised to be greeted by a successful, obviously well-educated man in a fine neighborhood. He had arranged to meet the man just after dinner time, so the two hopped into the car and drove to the ice cream store. It was vanilla ice cream that night and, sure enough, after they came back to the car, it wouldn’t start.

The engineer returned for three more nights. The first night, the man got chocolate. The car started. The second night, he got strawberry. The car started. The third night he ordered vanilla. The car failed to start.

Now the engineer, being a logical man, refused to believe that this man’s car was allergic to vanilla ice cream. He arranged, therefore, to continue his visits for as long as it took to solve the problem. And toward this end he began to take notes: he jotted down all sorts of data, time of day, type of gas used, time to drive back and forth, etc.

In a short time, he had a clue: the man took less time to buy vanilla than any other flavor. Why? The answer was in the layout of the store. Vanilla, being the most popular flavor, was in a separate case at the front of the store for quick pickup. All the other flavors were kept in the back of the store at a different counter where it took considerably longer to find the flavor and get checked out.

Now the question for the engineer was why the car wouldn’t start when it took less time. Once time–not the vanilla ice cream–became the problem the engineer quickly came up with the answer: vapor lock. It was happening every night, but the extra time taken to get the other flavors allowed the engine to cool down sufficiently to start. When the man got vanilla, the engine was still too hot for the vapor lock to dissipate.