This Tuesday I finally got myself an iPhone 4. I have always wanted to get one, but I always saw the price as a really big obstacle! For a prepay iPhone you would be talking roughly €600 and then you would be buying credit on top of that, scandalous!

So I had intended on ordering the iPhone this week, I settled that I would go and get the bill pay because I saw it as having more benefits. It was not an easy decision to go bill bay, I felt really strong on prepay.

Then I got a call from my uncle last weekend and he told me that I could have his iPhone! So I was thrilled about this, getting an iPhone for virtually free, I just gave him my iPod touch which was 32gb for the 32gb iPhone, I saw that as a great trade, especially for me! My uncle didn’t really like how the phone worked, he found it too awkward so he switched back to his blackberry.

The iPhone is currently on the o2 network and I was too so it was perfect. But I recently found out that bill pay customers can get their iPhones unlocked, for free! So I rang up o2 and got them to fill in the paperwork and now I am waiting for the unlock code to be sent from apple, it can take up to two weeks!

It will be great to have the phone unlocked, then I can switch over to Vodafone like I intended on doing. I still think I will go

and get the bill contract once the phone gets unlocked, it just makes more sense. From using the iPhone since Tuesday I have used a fair chunk of credit ( I did also ring America! ). With the bill contract I will be able to ring all Vodafone customers for free that also includes texts, which is great for me as most of my friends are on Vodafone.

I will also get 150 any network minutes and 2gb monthly download limit, not bad for €45! It makes sense to go bill with a Smartphone.

I made a blog post on Monday about how to make iPhone ringtones, this will definitely come in handy now!

So once the phone is unlocked, bring on Vodafone!

Since I will be getting an iPhone soon I have been looking up how to go about doing certain things such as setting multiple email accounts up, I only recently found out you could do that.

Anyway I noticed that by default with your iPhone you can only use set ringtones that come with the phone, you cannot just simply select a song from your library and use it as your ringtones, apple probably done this to encourage you to buy ringtones from them.

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Anyway after a while of looking around I found out how to make your own ringtones for free from your iTunes library and it is really simple.

Here is what to do, firstly right click the song you want to make a ringtone from and choose get info, then click options and set the start time to for example 0.00 and then the end time to 0.30 and then click ok. The reason we set it to 30 seconds is because that is the maximum length ringtone apple allow, which is stupid!

Next right click the song and choose create AAC version, then when that is finished go into the folder where that song is saved to, you can find the folder path by clicking get info on the song.

Then rename the file extension of the song you converted from .m4a to .m4r then just drag it into iTunes and then onto your Phone, simple!

whois? what is it, basically it is a form on online identity protection for your domain name. That may sound a bit blown out of proportion, but that’s basically what it does.

Whenever you buy a new domain name and fill in your details such as your email, home address and contact number, usually this is all publicly available. this is unless you choose to buy whois, if you choose to get the whois privacy then all these details will be masked and not available to the general public.

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if you want to look up the whois details of a domain you can look them up on whois.net, sometimes when your domain was bought from a web hosting company you will have to go to their site to see your whois information. So if you have recently registered a domain name, and you are unsure if you have paid for this service, I recommend you go and check.

I always pay for it, I like to have my identity as protected as possible. I have a few friends who have recently bought some domain names, and I looked up their sites on the whois site and they forgot to get this service, since then they have gone out and paid for it!