iTunes 7.4 adding ringtones for free
Just so you know, you can add ringtones to iTunes 7.4 for free, just like you add audiobooks.

Just so you don't think Apple just totally sucks, OK? They always leave the backdoor open on these things. There's a nice thread going on MacRumors.

Best,
Dudley

Fancy-schmancy ringtones
You guys and TWIT are it. Been listening since the beginning--never e-mailed or called in before now.

After today's p-cast, and the Apple scheme with ringtones, and the attendant mind-numbing hoohah on the forums and blogs, and even you two, I was moved to write.

Why--please tell me, please--why do people need fancy-schmancy ringtones?! At all. Really. I mean, who cares? Am I just so uncool? So out-of-touch? So old (46)? I mean, I bought a freakin' iPhone in the first week, after all! And I listen to you two!!! (Three--sorry, Jason.) How uncool can I be? Am I the only one that wants nothing to do with this custom ringtone shenanigans? Maybe I am just a huge fuddy-duddy, but I wish people would use the vibrate mode all the time. People: please silence the phones and use the slick v-mail!

Sheeeeeeeesh. Thank you. I feel better now.

Oh, and if Apple can get a buck from some poor sap who already bought the song to turn it into a ringtone, well, good-on-ya, Apple.

BTW, I used Treos for years, I give the iPhone a B-plus, my main computer is a Thinkpad (XP), and I have an iMac at home, too.

Please don't stop doing the podcast--looking forward to the frivolity surrounding episode 1,000.

Todd from NYC

P.S. Tom: Hook 'em. UTAustin, Class of '83.