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As the pic says ladies and gents, Apple has decided that if you’re clever enough to work in GarageBand — and really, aren’t we all? — you deserve custom tones. To get this working all you need do is grab at the fresh GarageBand 4.1.1 update released yesterday, select a cycle region in your song — a cycle region is just an area in the song’s timeline you want to repeat — then “share” and select “send ringtone to iTunes” option. Of course, your iPhone will need to be at version 1.1.2 to accomplish this little feat of magic, but we’re sure most of you out there have sorted updates by now. Enjoy the music and feel free to drop us a note with how things go.

[Via TUAW]

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Know Your Rights is Engadget’s new technology law series, written by our own totally punk copyright attorney Nilay Patel. In it we’ll try to answer some fundamental tech-law questions to help you stay out of trouble in this brave new world. Disclaimer: Although this post was written by an attorney, it is not meant as legal advice or analysis and should not be taken as such.

We hate to do another Apple-related KYR so soon, but this week’s announcement of Apple’s pay-and-pay-again iPhone / iTunes ringtone maker (followed up by statements made by Apple VP Phil Schiller) has had a lot of people asking us the following question:

So, is it illegal to make my own ringtones?

No!

Come on.

No, really!

What’s the catch?

Nothing!

You wouldn’t be doing this if there wasn’t a catch.

Oh, alright. But you’re not going to like it.Continue reading Know Your Rights: Is it illegal to make my own ringtones?

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Apple came out swinging today, with three entirely new iPod models, a color refresh of the Shuffle, the launch of the iTunes WiFi Music Store, iPhone ringtones and a price cut, and a partnership with Starbucks — if you blinked and missed something, here’s a brief recap of what went down at Moscone West:

Live Coverage / Hands-on

• Steve Jobs live — Apple’s “The beat goes on” special event
• iPod touch first hands-on
• iPod nano 3G first hands-on
• iPod classic first hands-on
• iTunes WiFi Music Store first hands-on

iPod / iTunes

• Meet the new iPod family
• Apple announces (PRODUCT) RED iPod shuffle, new colors
• Apple announces new 3rd gen iPod nano
• Apple’s new iPod classic
• Apple’s iPod touch gets official
• Apple announces iTunes WiFi Music Store
• Apple and Starbucks join up for iTunes WiFi purchase

iPhone

• Apple adds iPhone ringtones to iTunes
• iPhone to get iTunes WiFi Music Store, too
• Apple cuts 8GB iPhone price to $399
• Apple killing 4GB iPhone, $299 while supplies last
• Where the hell is the 3G iPhone for Europe? We might know.

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Want to add iPhone ringtones? iToner’s your solution, it’s the easiest (and most graphically purdy) method we’ve seen yet, and it works without even jailbreaking your iPhone. The down side (yeah, there’s always a downside) is this simple utility could teach a course in Nagware 101, bugging you incessantly and imposing increasingly longer delays before carrying out its function until you buy the thing. Still, it’s worth it if you’ve been waiting for an excuse not to use marimba anymore. We’d just suggest waiting until next Wednesday before making the buy, we hear Apple might just do this thing themselves. More shots after the break.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]Continue reading iToner makes adding iPhone ringtones ridiculously easy

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The New York Post is reporting that Apple’s September 5th dog and pony show is set to usher in the age of iTunes as ringtone-management software for iPhone. Apparently the rumored service will see iTunes able to convert any song into a ringtone — for a fee, of course — and you’ll even have the ability to dictate which portion of the song becomes the tone. The offering will also include the ability to use previously purchased tunes as ringtones, and we’re hoping your own music in iTunes, too. We’re feeling this is long overdue, but can assume that Apple could have been in conversation with the labels to sort out the financials of all this magic. Watch this space next week for more news on pricing and availability — if indeed, it actually pans out.

[Via AppleInsider]

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