Taken with ShakeItPhoto using an iPhone 3GS.
Category: iPhone
Frogger Screen Shot
It’s been a while since I made a ringtone. Here’s a classic from 1981: The theme from Frogger.
I’ve been slowly learning how to develop for the iPhone/iPod Touch platform, and this is the first result of my experimenting. Taskmaster is a simple To Do list manager for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
For the first release, I wanted to focus on the core functionality: Add tasks, sort tasks, delete tasks. The calendar icons are the fanciest part of this release. The text is rendered onto the image dynamically as needed.
You can get the application on the iTunes store. The application is free. If you have to time to try it and provide feedback, it’s greatly appreciated. New features will be added based on the feedback received.
When you think of classic arcade games, Pac-Man has got to be high on the list. The game is a simple concept — just one maze, 5 characters, and a bonus fruit — that it seems almost boring. But it was implemented quite well. The difficulty was just right…it always seemed that if I just played one more game, I could get past that level.
The arcade cabinet is difficult to find these days, but here is that wonderful sound that you hear after paying your quarter and pushing the start button. Now you can get that thrill every time somebody calls your phone! There is also an mp3 version for your enjoyment.
I know, I know, you want your iPhone to digitize you and suck you in so you can play Light Cycles with the CPU. But until then, you’ll have to settle for a Tron iPhone Ringtone.
Or you can get the sound effect as an mp3.
Here’s another ringtone for your iPhone! This time, it’s the theme for one of the most awesome video games of all time, Galaxian!
You can get the ringtone or the source mp3 file.
Enjoy!
You know that really annoying beeping interference sound you get when a GSM phone is around your speakers and the phone is communicating with the network? Well, if you can’t get enough of it, here’s a GSM Interference Ringtone for your iPhone.
Enjoy!
If you want this sound as an mp3, here you go.
Remember the long-ago days of dial up internet? Remember the anticipation as you listened to the modem handshake, and the jubilation when you heard that last little “bong” that meant you managed to negotiate a higher speed connection?
Well now you can live those days all over again on your trusty iPhone! I bring you the iPhone Modem Ringtone!
You should be able to download the file, drop it into iTunes, and sync it to your iPhone. Enjoy!
Apple released version 1.0.1 of the iPhone software today. It addresses the security hole in Safari that has been widely (mis)reported on in the media.
When I tried up update my phone tonight, the update crashed (twice) and the iPhone entered recovery mode. After I reconnected it to the computer, iTunes saw it and started a restore process. It synced up again just fine, but that was a bit of a scare.
The iPhone was modded with some custom ringtones and system sounds, and I suspect that this is what caused the firmware update to bomb out. I think I will wait a little while and see what is happening with this update before uploading the custom ringtones again.
How’s that for a verbose title?
Lately I have been encoding my DVD’s for viewing on Apple TV and the iPhone. A video encoded for the iPhone (or iPod video) will play on the Apple TV, but it does not look ideal when it is scaled up to fill a large TV. A video encoded for the Apple TV looks great on the TV, but will not play on the iPhone/iPod. So I have been encoding each DVD twice: once with Apple TV parameters, and once with iPhone/iPod parameters. The iPhone/iPod version contains “(iPod)” in the title to help me tell them apart.
This is great, except that by default iTunes syncs all new movies to the Apple TV, which means I have a large, high quality version, and a lower resolution version on the Apple TV. What’s the point? I am never going to watch the smaller version on the Apple TV anyway. There must be a better way.
Here’s the solution I came up with. Maybe there’s a better way to do it, there are definitely other ways to do it, but this works well for me.
First, I created a new Smart Playlist named Apple TV Movies which matched Video Kind is Movie and Name does not contain (iPod), limited to the 10 most recent additions, with live updates:
Then, I selected the Apple TV in the Devices list in iTunes, and told it to sync only my Apple TV Movies playlist:
Voilá! My Apple TV now only syncs the 10 most recent movies added, and only the movies encoded with the correct format for playback on my TV. I probably could have used the bitrate of the videos to determine which movies to sync as well, but I am going to have different versions with different names anyway, so I just used the name.