Các chương trình khởi động bao gồm các cổng chính (Safari) internet, thông tin trọng yếu công cụ (điện thoại, văn bản, và Mail), hồ sơ hình ảnh của cuộc sống của bạn (hình ảnh, Camera), táo trung tâm mua sắm (iTunes, ứng dụng Store), và cũng thả trung tâm giải trí (iPod). | 210 Chapter 9 10 Custom Ringtones Your iPhone comes with 25 creative and intriguing ringing sounds from an old car horn to a peppy marimba lick. But where s the fun in that Surely you don t want to walk around listening to the same ringtones as the millions of other iPhone owners. Fortunately the iPhone offers the delightful prospect of making up custom ring sounds either to use as your main iPhone ring or to assign to individual callers in your Contacts list. This chapter covers the two primary ways of going about it carving 30-second ringtone snippets out of pop songs or recording your own in GarageBand. iTunes Ringtones In September 2007 Apple announced that it would begin selling custom ringtones from its iTunes Store. Using simple audio tools in the latest version of the iTunes program you can buy a song for 1 choose a 30-second chunk pay 1 more for the ringtone and sync the result to your iPhone. Now if paying a second dollar to use 30 seconds of a song you already own strikes you as a bit of a rip-off you re not alone. But look at the bright side that s a lot cheaper than most ringtones. Pop-song ringtones from T-Mobile and Sprint cost apiece from Verizon they re 3. You don t get to customize them choose the start and end points adjust the looping and so on. Worse incredibly after 90 days every Sprint ringtone dies and you have to pay another if you want to keep it. Verizon s last only a year. Unfortunately not all iTunes songs can become ringtones only the ones whose rights-cleared-by-the-lawyers status is designated by a bell icon. To see that icon add the Ringtones column to the iTunes list by right-clicking or Control-clicking any column name and then choosing Ringtones from the pop-up menu. You can see the Ringtones column and some bell icons in the illustration on the next page. Custom Ringtones 211 When you see a purchased song in your iTunes list that bears the lucky bell click the bell itself. The Ringtone Editor which looks like a .
