Let’s say we have an Mp3 file and we would love to make a ringtone for our mobile phone out of it. I’ve figured out how to do this in 4 easy steps with my iMac and my Nokia 6111. What you need, even if you work with other machines/os/devices, will be:

1. An Mp3 cutter (I’ve used Mp3 Trimmer)
2. An Mp3 to AAC (Mp4) converter (I’ve used iTunes)
3. Bluetooth or infrared or any other support that allows you to send to your device a file (I’ve used bluetooth)
4. A cell phone that supports AAC format as ringtones

Actually the Mp3 cutter is optional as it is used just for reduce the file size of the final track for your device.
Once you cutted out an Mp3 file of some seconds from your original file, all you have to do is convert your mp3 file in AAC format. With iTunes just open your file, select the track, right click and click “Convert to AAC”.  Once succesfully converted your file, just send it to your mobile phone. Then go to your cell phone alerts options settings and select your file as ringtone.

It has just happened that I received an email with a .docx file as attachment. For those who wonder what it is and how to open it, once done a quick search I am able to explain below.

A .docx file is a Microsoft Office 2007 format used to save an Word XML file. If you have not Office 2007 installed on your Mac, you can open that document using a (beta) application called MicroSoft Office Open XML Converter 0.2 that allow you to convert your file in .rtf (RichTextFormat).

In this tutorial I explain how i realize some nice vectorial tech-circles with a couple of tricks in Adobe Illustrator. Hope you will enjoy it.

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Ok, now since I updated last time my QuickTime version I experienced a really annoying lag. I took ages in order to open an .avi or whatever file and it affected the front row in the video section. If you tryied to move your selection along the movie/files lists, it was lagged. Until this, I thougth “I can simply use VLC media player to see my movie files”, but if I would had tryied to connect to a movie trailer you had to wait 15 seconds to see the movie start retrieving data from remote server.

So I made a quick google search and I came into a post suggesting a user, for another QT-related issue, to upgrade his codecs. In this case I looked for upgrades of Flip4Mac and Perian components and it tourned out that the ones I had installed were out of date. I upgraded them and now everything works perfectly.

If anyone out-there is getting as crazy as I did, hope this post can help. Cheers