i got an iPhone

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: September 30th, 2010 | 0 Comments

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! :D 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!

Make your own iPhone ringtones

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: September 27th, 2010 | 0 Comments

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. 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!

Whats that song called?

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: May 14th, 2010 | 1 Comments

It always happens, you are sitting there and a song comes on either on the radio or in a shop that you are in and you know you heard the song before and you just can't remember what it is. There is an app for you iPod and iPhone that you can get to find out what that song is called. The app is called Shazam, it only takes a few seconds to find out what the song is called. This app works on WiFi and on 3g networks, so you are not just tied to finding the names of songs when you are near a internet connection. Currently I have it on my iPod and I will definitely be putting it onto my iPhone when I get one, it is so useful! You can get a trial of Shazam which is what I done first to see if it was worth paying money for it, with the trial version, you are only allowed to "tag" a certain amount of songs each month. Tagging songs is the term used when you want to find out what the song is called. The full version of Shazam is €3.99 on iTunes store and I decided I would get it because it is so helpful. To use it on your iPod you will need a microphone so the earphones with the microphone works fine with this app. On the iPhone obviously you don't need anything extra, it just uses the mouth piece you speak into. To tag a song, you begin by pushing the big Shazam logo in the app, then you just put the mic near the speaker, for better sound, and the app listens to it for about 20 -30 seconds, then it at sends it off and matches it and send back the name of the song. Once the result is shown, you will know the artist album an title of the song. You also have the option of buying the album straight from iTunes on your iPod or iPhone. Other extras on the Shazam app are to show the top ten songs currently in the charts and also you can see a history of songs you have tagged. You can get the trial of Shazam Here. You can get the full version of Shazam Here.