For those of you who are tired of Apple trying to rip people off with their Ringtone scams, I finally figured out a way to successfully add your own ringtones to an iPhone without having to pay the iTunes store each time. After doing some research and an hour of failing miserably while following other users’ guidelines, I finally figured a way to get it to work for the PC user. Here is my step-by-step plan to adding your own custom ringtones for people using iTunes version 7.4.1:
1) Open iTunes and add the mp3 file to your iTunes library if you have not done so already.
2) Right click on the file and select “Get Info.” Go to the “Options” tab and check both the Start and Stop Time boxes. Put whatever time interval you desire but it must be 30 seconds or less. For example, 0:06 to 0:36, etc.
3) Convert the file to AAC format (right click -> convert).
4) Open your windows explorer and find the file on your harddrive. Click and drag the file onto your desktop.
5) Now rename it to xxx.m4r (where xxx is the filename) and double click the file. The file should automatically load in your iTunes Ringtones library and start playing.
6) Now drag the file on your desktop into your /iTunes Music/Ringtones directory. Double click on the file in your iTunes Library and choose to locate the missing file.
7) Go to your iPhone’s Summary page in your iTunes program and make sure the following is checked: “Manually manage music and videos.” Also uncheck “Sync only checked songs and videos.” Click Apply and confirm the pop-up.
Note: This may remove all of your current songs and videos but it can be re-added later.
8) Click and drag the ringtone from your iTunes Library Ringtones into your iPhone Ringtones. It should show a small + sign next to the name when you drag the file over the folder.
9) On your iPhone: go to Settings and select Sounds. Change the ringtone to your custom one.
Perhaps there may be some extraneous steps above but I believe it works. Let me know if there are any problems and so forth.
Is there anything more annoying when you first wake up in the morning than having a boner? Not only can the male “organ” become uncomfortable, but several problems always seem to arise from the “morning wood” situation that could spell disaster. For example, when relatives or friends of the family arrive at the house, what can we do but throw on some pants that best camoflauge the snake. This in itself can prove to be an endeavoring task for sometimes your pecker is persistant on staying outside of your jeans. After struggling you finally resolve to shove the little guy in-between your belly button and your waste band. One can only imagine what would happen if you had a bladder malfunction while greeting your guests.
Another common perdicament that arises is using the bathroom. Does anyone else feel that they need to do a handstand to eliminate the probability of urinating all over the floor? While suffering to readjust your water hose, the sudden urge to let loose all your bodily fluids emerges, and you splash the toilet seat, wall, floor, and even the cat box (luckily the latter is easy to cover-up). You begin to feel lightheaded and dizzy, and have to support yourself on the nearest wall. Gathering a wad of toilet paper, you begin to whipe clean the dark yellow pee — it’s always yellow in the morning. Possibly an even worse scenario is trying to take a dump with an erection. It is damn near impossible to fit the pickle in the jar, and if you manage to do so you may end up pissing thru the bottom of the toilet seat, ruining your pants for that week.
Women tend to be confused when it comes to “morning wood.” They seem to think it is something sexual and ask us why we have a boner. “Why does it happen? Guys are so weird.” And then they laugh and play with it joyously, eventually giving your penis a personalized name. Of course, there are also the girls who tease, providing you with an erection and only an erection before you head off for work, school, church, etc. Inevitably because I am that great in bed I am no longer called by my birth name, but I am referred to by the name of my origin.
As some people are aware, the calendar marks the second Monday of every October of every year for a special reason — that being the acknowledgement of Christopher Columbus’s alleged discovery of the western hemisphere in October 12, 1492. Most people do not celebrate this day or even take the time to acknowledge it. If one can recall from their eighth grade history class, they would know that Columbus sailed from Spain with three ships in search of a new route to the East Indies (Spice Trade). After ten weeks, he and his 90 man crew landed on an island called Guanahaní in the present day Bahamas. The local Indian tribes understood the white Europeans to be divine — quite the contrary. Upon landing, these men raped and ravaged the villages. More interested in gold than welfare, they forced the natives to work the mines and rivers in search for riches. If they weren’t converted to slaves or Christians, or both, they were brutally murdered by the amusement of the Europeans. According to those contemporary sources, millions of natives’ lives were taken during this massacre.
“And the Christians, with their horses and swords and pikes began to carry out massacres and strange cruelties against them. They attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house.” - Bartolome de las Casas from The Devastation of the Indies (1552)
Sometimes I wonder how desensitized humans, or people, have become. When we hear the nightly local news and hear that women were raped, children killed at school due to gang violence, or that a woman drowns her four kids in the bath tub, we tend to not think as much about it as we should. This is extremely worse in America where we have mainstream media, popular culture, and an abundance of generic cartoons. Some months ago, I generated an idea…
So this idea has been running through my head for a while, and I finally got the chance to work with it on Photoshop. I’m not good with these types of programs (as you can see in my previous works), but I gave it a shot anyways. I hope you can detect the meaning behind it.
My fiancee unknowingly has a dirty mouth. While preparing waffles yesterday morning, I have the tendency to snack on what I bake or cook. While she was feasting on my delicious waffles for lunch, she told me to “tear it up and dip it in [her] sauce,” — her sauce being the syrup. Regardless of what she meant, I tore it up alright. Those were some really good waffles.
I hate new years. I always put down the wrong date on articles of papers. I don’t normally get used to writing down the appropriate year until mid-August. The contract with my domain provider runs out this April, so I am trying to resolve whether or not I want to extend it. It is basically dead space, similar to Britney Spears’s vagina. Yeah, it was easy.
Expect a funny “comic” in the near future. I practically live with Hallie’s family, and I have no access to a mouse for my laptop. I’m not aware of anyone else, but I cannot use Photoshop without a mouse. I start a difficult semester of school on January 14.
My family traditions are usually strange, but things got even stranger on Christmas Eve. After being forced to spend the evening at my aunt’s house with the rest of my mother’s family tree, we enjoyed the sensational taste of do-it-yourself tacos — quite different from dinners we ate in previous years. Don’t get me wrong because I do look forward to spending time with my family. However, I tried to escape the cheap dinner on Christmas Eve in exchange for playing Monopoly with Hallie’s siblings: failed. Instead, I had to endure the ramblings and rantings of my uncle who was formerly a crackhead. He is naturally ADD, so if I see him sucking down a beer I know it means trouble. Indeed it was an inexpensive Christmas. I am used to turkeys and hams, but because of the declining sources of income (thanks to the United States of American Government), it was decided amongst the elders to keep things moderately low. That’s fine by me.
It was only the second time that I had the chance to spend Christmas day at Golden Corral with my father’s side of the family. This buffet, — loved by my dad and his dad, and loathed by myself, — typically has nothing more to show than fried food, fatty steak, and cheap chicken; in other words, the summation of American food. Spending time with this side of the family is dreadfully boring. While feasting on some hushpuppies with Hallie (I made her go with me), we took site of a whale of a woman. Repeatedly, she walked back and forth from her table to the buffet lines. It has always been my humble opinion that if a person can barely manage to walk to the restaurant in the first place, then they should take that as a helpful hint to stop eating. Whatever, no one listens to me anyways.
I need to dust this web site off because I have not written anything at all since September. This is good and bad. It is bad since there have been a lot of things going on in the world for the past three months: elections, Iran, shootings, and the usual termination of personal freedoms by the right-wing government. On the other hand, it’s good because I have been busy doing more productive things with my time. I work out on a regular basis once again (I basically quit after leaving San Diego), my first full semester of college is almost completed, and Hallie and I are on better terms than we usually are.
Since I last made an entry in my blog, I have come to like Ron Paul. Will I vote in 2008? Probably not because I am in a Republican state. I finally had a chance to watch a live interview with President Bush. He really is a dumb asshole. I don’t think anyone who voted for the douchebag in both previous elections actually watched the man answer questions. It is one thing to read from cue cards or a teleprompter, but this guy could not make an impromptu speech if American lives depended on it. By the way, escalating pressure with Iran is a terrible idea. The Middle East has hated us since we first interfered with their governments with coups and assassinations decades ago. The only thing we need from there is oil. Speaking of which, why are we the ONLY country who has not signed the Kyoto Protocol? Oh, that’s right — Bush is a corporation sucking dickhead. If you have not noticed, elitist corporations run this country… right into the ground.
I’ll make more posts in the near future, but I have much studying to do. Until then…
In past weeks protestors have gathered in Burma (also called Myanmar) to demonstrate their displeasure with the 500% (that’s five times apparently) increase in fuel prices by the military controlled government. Videos of people being beaten, shot and killed have surfaced on YouTube despite the government’s attempts to cut the country off from the Internet, seriously. At least 13 people have been identified as dead as of lately, but many more are assumed dead as they are herded into prisoner camps around the country. Recent before-and-after satellite photos have been created and studied, which prove the human rights violations are correct.
Monks have peacefully joined the demonstrations and were beaten by military police as well. Who could have the nerve to beat a monk? A christian I can understand, but not Buddhist monks. They are the most peaceful and passive people on Earth. Here are pro-democratic people reaching out for global help, and the United States is stuck in the middle of another Vietnam. Here’s something to ease your minds for those who are being brutally beaten and tortured day after day in Burma, though: The United States is not economically interested.
If you are one of the estimated one million consumers who purchased a brand new iPhone, you just got fucked. Apple is slashing the product price by $200 (USD), and it has only been 6 weeks since its release. That means the new price for an 8-gigabyte iPhone is $399. Typically, it takes 6 months for prices to reduce, and an entire year for a product upgrade. Now I use the term “screwed” in a physical manner, because Steve Jobs has bent you over and fucked you in the ass so hard (without any lubrication) that you are bleeding from your mouth. What is Mr. Jobs doing to compensate its small (and I do mean small) userbase. They are offering $100 store credit to anyone who purchased a new iPhone outside the the 14 day period. What is this “14 day period,” you may ask. Well, it’s the amount of time Apple gave its consumers in offering them a full reimbursement of the difference paid. In other words, if you had not stood in line like countless others on the release date to purchase your overpriced iPhone and had bought it in the past 14 days, then you would be entitled to $200. Now you get store credit. You should have saw it coming as it only took approximately $250 to create an iPhone in the first place.
Why are they slashing the price of the beloved overpriced iPhone? Steve Jobs says it is because of an increase in technology and has nothing to do with him wanting your first born child. This is what he had to say in a letter: “This is life in the technology lane.” A job well done, Jobs. Well, that’s what you elitist, ignorant Apple assholes get. Fortunately, Apple’s stock just dropped 8%.
I have done some reading on the topic of states seeking private funding from foreign businesses and corporations for the production of freeways and highways. Before, since the great Dwight D. Eisenhower set forth plans for 41,000 miles of interstate highways for American evacuation in case of nuclear attacks, the roads were paid for by federal taxes associated with gas and inspection tags. However, since the former is not enough to keep up with infation in construction costs, states are now seeking foreign countries or private businesses to pay upfront the cost of building these long stretches of concrete. It started with Chicago’s Skyway and now includes 316 miles of Trans-Texas Corridor (parallel to I-35), 8.8 miles of Pocahontas Parkway in Virginia, and a 157-mile Indiana Toll Road. All of these contracts include extended leases of over 50 years of operation by the companies who will dictate the electronic tollway prices. The funds gained by the tollway prices will go directly to the corporations residing in foreign countries. And if you wonder why you’re “free” road’s speed limit decreases, blame it on the “non-compete” clauses in the contracts which will help gain more motorists for the toll roads. Will they maintain it better than the U.S. government? If I was a foreign investor, I would do the same thing.
I have said it before and I will say it again: this country is going down the shit hole. We are already losing over a billion dollars a day due to a horrible fiscal policy and an independent Federal Reserve. Not only do we have a horrible administration, but no one wants to do anything to stop this bullshit selling of our land to foreign countries. What the fuck did we fight all these wars for? Freedom, peace, and the right to fucking drive on a road that is not owned by Spain, France, Australia, China, etc. Why are we fighting in Iraq? Are we going to start selling our schools to the Iranians? “Oh, no! That’s an absurd thing to say.” Just wait for it. Afterall, our government did support/fund Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein prior to the First Gulf War. Vote Ron Paul or Mike Gravel 2008 — the news media hates them, which is how we know they’re legitimate candidates. Clinton and Obama are corporate pigs just like Bush, sidestepping every important national topic like it’s business.
