My Macbook Dilemma
Ever since I got my iPhone and fell in love I decided that I now need all things Apple. My plan is to get a Macbook. However, as of October 14th, Apple released the new Macbook, which has now put in me in the dilemma I am currently facing. I’ve been searching all over the internet trying to find where I could get the best deal. Ebay is in the lead by far. It seems as though people are trying to sell anything they can to get a couple extra bucks due to the economy. I am included in those people. I tore my room apart searching for old cell phones and other gadgets that had some worth and sold them on craigslist and ebay. My plan is to reap the benefits of those selling their Macbooks dirt cheap in order to get that extra couple dollars.
I have found Macbooks that are only a few months old selling for $600 and less. That is an absolute steal! I also found Macbook Pro’s for $800 and even a couple Macbook Air’s for $1000. The new Macbooks I found on there are at least $1200.
So, here is my dilemma. Do I get the “old macbok” and save myself a couple hundred dollars or do I splurge a little and get the new one?
What do you think?
I JUST learned how to make ringtones for my iPhone!
How exciting! Now I don’t have to give up $1 to iTunes everytime I want a cool ringtone… this is awesome. I’m going to share my new knowledge with you…
Here are the instructions for Windows Vista with iTunes 8.0.1
- Select the song you want. Right-click, and select “Get Info”
- Click on the “options” tab.
- You will two boxes labeled start time and stop time. Check those boxes and enter the time in the song where you want your ringtone to start and stop. It shouldn’t be over 40 seconds long. Click OK.
- Right click on the one you just selected and click on “Create AAC Version”.
- In the left hand side of the iTunes menu you should see it say “converting”.
- After it’s done, right-click on the song you created and select “show in windows explorer”.
- A window will pop up showing the song you just created. Right-click and select “rename”. You need to change the file from m4a to m4r. A window will pop up, click yes.
- Double click on the song. It should start playing in iTunes and automatically go under “ringtones”.
Things that could make this not work:
1. Your iTunes might not have a “create AAC version” selection, only a “create mp3 version”. This is the problem I had and finally figured out how to fix it. You need to change the import settings in your iTunes. Go to iTunes and click “edit” then “preferences”. Under the General tab, click on “import settings”. Where it says Import Using: change it to AAC Encoder. This should fax that problem.
2. Your folder options are not right. This is probably the most common one, but is super easy to fix. Click the start button and where it says search type folder options. Click folder options and go to the View tab. About 7 check marks down it says “Hide extensions for known file types”. Make sure that box is unchecked, and click ok.
It is a pretty simple thing! If anyone needs any help or is having any trouble at all please feel free to ask for some help!
