Operating System Ground » iTunes http://www.osground.com The perfect match of a web developer and a laptop. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:22:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Getting yourself a ringtone http://www.osground.com/2010/06/28/getting-yourself-a-ringtone/ http://www.osground.com/2010/06/28/getting-yourself-a-ringtone/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:12:25 +0000 Andrew http://www.osground.com/?p=1266 Save all your gold coins or iTunes coupon. Getting a ringtones is way easier with both Quicktime and iTunes :) Back when I was using Macbook, from time to time I do some video editing for college assignment. Both Quicktime and iTunes has helped me too much, much more than iLife’s iMovies can.

Quicktime

I’ve never regret for registered Quicktime Pro. Quicktime can actually do a lot more than just playing as video and toggle for full screen. It can cut out a part of the movie and save on another files, save your time to edit pieces by pieces in Adobe After Effect. Quicktime works with music files too!

iTunes

Quicktime only save files to *.mov. While in iTunes, it can be easily set to convert almost any file format to another. In iTunes, first set to mp3, since most mobile phone support mp3 as a ringtone nowadays.

iTunes convert

Play the *.mov file from iTunes and convert it… You can easily get a part of the ringtone you want :)

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iTunes library
A lot of people telling me that in iTunes, the library is easier to use, iTunes helps you to maintain all the music files and listed them in the library. Just for your information, iTunes arrange the music file according to folder and more folder from Album folder to Artist folder to Grenes folder and all about folder. In WMP, there’s actually library as well. Just dump all your music file in there, the library won’t create any folder, it will cache the files themselves on your favorite folder.
WMP library
WMP has a nice interface on showing tracks, vizualization and lyrics at the same time. Unlike iTunes and the coverflow though, the lyrics are essential when you wanna sing along with the music :P
WMP playlist
Well, I didn’t say that iTunes is a piece of shit and WMP are rocks. There are pro and con on each of them. I’m just listing out the thing I find out. I’m not a hardcore fan of either operating systems.

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iTunes U
My two cent:
I get to learn. Correct, I don’t have a TV over in my room. With this iTunes U, I get to download and listen to things like health, sciences, renaissance clothing etc. Now that iTunes have this, I don’t need to look into YouTube or anywhere else to download presentation :D

]]> http://www.osground.com/2008/07/31/itunes-u/feed/ 0 More Windows Application From Apple http://www.osground.com/2008/01/11/more-windows-application-from-apple/ http://www.osground.com/2008/01/11/more-windows-application-from-apple/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:50:00 +0000 Andrew http://www.osground.com/2008/01/11/more-windows-application-from-apple/ I was looking for a AV chatting in between Windows and Apple, well, it’s because my girl friend are using Windows :( To get to look at each other, we’ll have to either use Windows together or Apple. I’ve been trying to use iChat (GTalk) to video conference with her but it doesn’t work :( Except to wait for the newer version of Mac:Messenger from Mactopia, which I presume it’s another long wait, this however makes me look into Apple application development.
Apple to Windows applications
First it was Apple QuickTime for Windows, but from my hearing, most people (Windows users)don’t like QuickTime, first, it works like a spam, turned on when Windows started without warning. Second, the resolution wasn’t as good as it promised (Which I don’t think so :P )

Second it was iTunes, with the combination of their iPod lines, iTunes was widely used by Windows users who owned an iPod :lol: It was the hardwork of iPod though… It’s like TuitionWise student loans, without the tuition, there isn’t any loan, with loan there is interest to earn :lol: Everything linked. Thirdly, happened recently, the Safari browser, the so-called fastest browser and crashed a lot on me :(

Now, when will iChat be available for Windows user? Better be fast before the newer version of MSN for Mac comes out and replace the opportunity of iChat to shine in Windows machine ;)

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