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Jul 14 2008

Free iPhone ringtone from Geoff ”I’m a TWiT” Smith

RingtoneFeeder has announced a free tribute ringtone named “Worldwide hello” to mark the release of the new iPhone 3G and taking the opportunity to send a friendly native “hello” from RingtoneFeeder to the many new countries finally getting the iPhone. There is also a free demo feed available so the service can be tried out with no obligation. The free feed contains a few sample ringtones as well as an introduction video and a PDF guide to managing ringtones via iTunes.

“The release of the new iPhone 3G is an important event for us and we would like to welcome the many new iPhone uses around the world by giving them a dedicated ringtone and saying ‘hello’ in their native language. We are matching the languanges of the first batch of countries where the iPhone 3G is released.” said Geoff Smith, Partner and Producer at RingtoneFeeder.

RingtoneFeeder is a new and innovative approach to ringtones offering a subscription model which automatically installs two new original ringtones on the iPhone via iTunes every week. The earlier a subscription to the service is made the bigger collection the subscriber will have. When a ringtone has been released it will not appear in the weekly updates ever again. The 10 latest ringtones are delivered when subscribing and then an additional two new ringtones every week.

There is also a free demo feed available so the service can be tried out with no obligations. The free feed contains a few sample ringtones as well as an introduction video and a PDF guide to managing ringtones via iTunes.

Geoff Smith has been producing and playing music most of his life and is mostly known online from his jingles heard on Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code Podcast, GeekBrief, Tips from The Top Floor, ScreenCasts Online, the successful iYule project and recently the theme song for TWiT Live (pictured here). Geoff began composing jingles and theme songs for podcasters back in 2005 and has literally written hundreds.

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Nov 2 2007

Pirated copies of Adobe InDesign CS3 don’t like Leopard. Adobe unconcerned.

In case you haven’t been following the blog of Adobe’s Tim Cole, since October 26th, he has been keeping us updated on the Leopard compatibility status of Adobe InDesign CS3.

In installment one we were told InDesign CS3 would not require an update to run without problems on Leopard.

Next, in his second post, we learned that problems had been reported but only on using Leopard’s archive and install process, as opposed to doing a completely clean installation.

Then, yesterday, Tim asked for people to submit crash logs and other information to help track down any further problems.

And now, today, he reveals what all those crash logs told him:

the crash logs continue to indicate that it is pre-release versions of the software (which are not made legally available to the public, I should hasten to add) that are having these compatibility problems on Leopard, not the release versions of InDesign CS3 (versions 5.0 and 5.0.1).

Tim goes on to say…

I think most users out there will regard it as rather obvious that Adobe feels no obligation whatsoever to make sure that pirated or otherwise (knowingly or unknowingly) illegally acquired and used pre-release software updated to run on the latest operating systems (and I would strongly suspect that Apple has a similar attitude). One might go even further and say that even suggesting such a thing is very silly indeed.

So… sounds like Apple and Adobe have created an accidental anti-piracy feature in InDesign! If you do have a legal version of InDesign CS3 (5.0 or 5.0.1) and really do have a problem running it under a clean install of Leopard, Tim’s blog has links and instructions for submitting your reports.

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