Friday, October 30, 2009

Shortcuts in MAC

1. In windows 'Home' button directly takes to the top of page.


But In mac, there is no button for this -> the alternative way to do this fn+left arrow

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

how to convert a song into a ringtone in itunes - mac

Converting a song into a ringtone in Mac is not as tough as it seems. (Itunes 9)

you just need to follow these steps:

1. select the song that you want to convert into a ringtine.
2. Right click on that and select 'Get Info'
3. In the window that opens, select the tab named 'Options'
4. in that tab, there will be Start time and end time that need to be mentioned, make sure that start time and end time is such that the lenght becomes only 15 seconds not more than that.
5. then close this 'Get Info' window and select 'Advanced' on the top menu bar
6. select 'Create AAC version' It will create a new copy of this song in AAC format with this much length.
7. Now go to the original song and change the start time and end time to the original one.
8. Now drag and drop the newly created small song (AAC one) to your desktop
9. It will have extension as .m4a
10. Change it to .m4r and when it prompts chose the option 'Use .m4r'
11. It will change the format of the song to '.m4r'
12. Now first delete the newly created small song clip that was there in the itunes already.
13. Now drag and drop the song with .m4r extension into itunes library. It wil sync into the ringtones, and when we sync the iphone with this itunes, the newly created ringtone will get synced into that.
14. Enjoy your new sing-tone.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

I have a Mac that i had bought in April this year and its a prized possession for me. Its the very first laptop that i had bought in my life. So i cherish it a lot.




I have learnt a lot by trial and error, by using it and by re-searching. And here below are the things that i have learnt about it till now, which any new Mac user might not be aware of.

1.  For Burning a CD in MAC, we have to use iTunes. And the options in itunes keep changing. for my itunes version, i searched for the net and what was given on the net was not there on my version. Finally i got some other link which showed that the Burn button itself they have placed it on the home screen of itunes. You just need to press that after you have made a new playlist that is too be burnt on the Disk.
So after waiting for 2-3 days i was finally able to accomplish my goal of Burning a CD. :)