Ringtones Now Official on iPhone


Apple has bundled a little Xmas gift in with GarageBand '08 (4.1.1). You can now load (officially-approved) ringtones onto your iPhone, as Information Week reports.

You can make your own or use tracks from your iTunes library. And it's easy apparently, although we haven't tried it ourselves yet. And, no, your iPhone doesn't need to be unlocked to do it.

Here's the drill:

"Connect your iPhone. Open GarageBand. Create a track using Apple's loops or compose an entire song on your own. (The possibilities are sort of endless here and opens the floodgates for highly inappropriate ringtones.) Click on the "Share" tab, and under it is a selection called "Send Ringtone to iTunes". Click that, and it lets you select a 10-second loop of your track, mixes it, and sends it to iTunes. Once you've done that, simply sync your iPhone and voila! You've created your own ringtone. After you sync, you can go into the iPhone's settings and choose the newly added ringtone as your ringer."

Oh, one more thing: you have to have a Mac (obviously) to do this - only GarageBand can do it and iLife is, of course...Mac-only.