Making Ringtones

Making Ringtones (cutting from your favourite songs)

Difficulty : Medium

Hey again... This is how you make ringtones from your favourite songs.

Step 1: Select the song which you want to edit... Have an idea of what part of the song you are going to cut off and make the ringtone..

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Normally ringtones vary from 30 secs to 60 secs. Of course people have full songs as their ringtones. But it so happens that sometimes you like the portion just one min before the song ends. These are the high pitch parts of the song which you would normally want to cut off.

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Step 2: Download a software called AUDACITY from the internet. Its free. You can find it here in the following link...

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/latest/audacity-win/audacity-win-1.2.6.exe

Click on the link. Your download must automatically begin.

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Audacity is a music editing and mixing tool and its a free software. You can cut and mix music. The level u use it depends on how much u are interested in music.

The software interface looks like this .... .

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Step 3: Open the file you want to edit. After you have opened it. You should have something looking like this.

The waveform above is your song in a graphical representation. Click on the play button to play and listen to it... Now the tricky part is to play the song and remember the part of the waveform which represents the place you want to start cutting from and the place u want to mark as the end of the segment that you wanted to cut. It normally takes a little practice. But then... Youll get a hang of it...

Step 4: Select the part of the song which u want to cut by click and dragging the mouse across the waveform.

you should have something like this...

Step 5: Cut this part out by going to EDIT and clicking on CUT.
Step 6: Open a new file and paste it
Step 7: Save the new file as a wave file (since u cannot decode it straight away to mp3 with audacity)
Step 8: Later convert this file to an mp3 file. (i recommend FORMAT FACTORY for this).

Taking Screen Shots...

Taking screen shots is something everyone would like to do and its pretty simple too.. You might have seen me using screen shots of softwares and then posting them on my blog for your reference. Well this is how i do it.

You can go about it in the most popular way (no softwares required) or u can take another route with some softwares like... irfan view and Xnview.. which are very common softwares using for viewing pictures. Of course if you don wanna use any softwares then just do what im saying now....

If u want to get an image of your desktop.. Then just left click on ur desktop once (just to make it active...).. then press... Alt + Print Screen ... (The print screen button will be located on the top right corner of your keyboard....search for it.... just in case u didnt know) ... Now that you have pressed these keys you now have a copy of it.. All you have to do is go to an image editor. Such as Paint. And Press "Ctrl + V".... to paste a snapshot of your desktop in it. Thats it!...

If you want to take a copy of just a window tat you are working on. For example .. A software whose size isnt as big as the desktop itself and you just want to take the snapshot of the software alone. Then click on the software and make it active before taking a snapshot.

For any queries contact memphisguy1990@gmail.com

Downloading Youtube Videos

This is one of the most obvious things these days.. yet so many people are not so familiar with it .. so ill start off with this simple one...

You can go about it in one of the following ways...

METHOD ONE

Youtube Downloader method...

This is one of the most popular software used these days i guess. You tube downloader has become a must for all pcs.

You can find the software right here in the link given below...

http://download.cnet.com/YouTube-Downloader/3000-2071_4-10647340.html

This is a pretty simple software. After the installation is done. Your software should look something like this....

The interface is pretty obvious... You should copy the URL of the video you want to download from youtube and paste it in the "Enter video URL" box and press ok. It will be downloaded to the default download folder which i guess is in My Documents. You can change this setting by pressing on the folder icon present below the Enter URL dialog box (as shown by a red circle in the picture below)....

You can also change the quality of the video you want to download... that is ... HQ.. HD .. or Standard

Well thats that about downloading Youtube videos with Youtube downloader.

Send in your queries to memphisguy1990@gmail.com

METHOD TWO

Using Firefox

This is for all those firefox fans... and also people who dont want an extra software in your pc.

There are many addons in the firefox for downloading youtube videos.

I'll name the most common ones and explain them...

FLASH GET

Refer Downloading Youtube videos using Flash get blog... Click the link below

Video download helper

Refer Downloading videos using "Video download helper" blog .. Click link below..