Efiko Software has released an iPhone ringtone generator. Effectively it takes an .mp3 file (not .aac as of yet) and chops it into a usable ringtone for the iPhone. Rather than having to pay for each ringtone you can simply use this to generate your own for a one-time fee of $9.95 (US).

Right now the only downside is that the software works on PCs and not Macs but that is apparently being remedied currently.

iPhone Ringtone Maker

With the iPhone v2.1 software out of the door, Apple is hard at work on v2.2. From this first glimpse it looks like Apple, now that the major bugs have been squashed, is adding some new features.

The screenshot, unearthed by iPhone Atlas, shows a new Safari interface. Above you see a shot from my iPod Touch (left) next to a picture of the new v2.2 Safari. In the new browser, Google gets its own search bar (instead of popping up when you hit the regular URL bar) and the reload button has been moved the address bar, a purely aesthetic change which helps the text-entry areas to look bigger.

Of course, there’s still no mention of copy and paste, a seemingly ridiculous omission from such a powerful device. But I have a theory: Apple won’t ever put it in, at least not in the form we currently know. The iPhone model is quite different from that of a proper computer. In a Mac or PC, you use the operating system to act on files, be they pictures, e-mails or text documents.

The iPhone works more like iTunes, where each application takes care of its own files and what you can do with them. Thus, in Safari, you can choose to send a picture to the Photo application, whence it is squirreled away into a filesystem only accessible through the same Photo application, or through a “media browser” (which is used to pick the desktop background, for example).

It’s possible that Apple is taking so long to implement copy and paste not because it is difficult, but because Apple is reinventing it. Imagine a system-wide menu added to all applications which, instead of shuffling items off to a clipboard, lists all the places you can send that file (or text string). This would be like the existing “Open with” option available in the Mac’s right-click menu — each application effectively reports to the OS exactly what kind of files it can handle and the OS remembers this. Thus a picture could be sent to not only the Photo app, but to any other photo program. Text could be sent directly to any open dialog box in, say, Safari.

Technically, this still uses a “clipboard” stack to store items temporarily, but the user experience changes to fit the iPhone’s one-open-app-at-a-time paradigm.

Of course, this is all speculation, but there has to be a reason why we can’t shift information around the iPhone more easily. Maybe this is it.

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Apple has been innovative in design with the Bluetooth headset and wired headset. The new iPhone Bluetooth headset will work with other mobile phones in addition to the iPhone. It is expected the Apple will release additional iPhone accessories, but no word on whether they will be available at launch.