New Cellphone tools I got a new cellphone this weekend - a Samsung A900. This is Samsung's answer to the RAZR. Unfortunately, it doesn't support iSync on the mac - nasty nasty. There are some ways to work around this, however.

To copy contacts:

• Create a group in Address Book with the contacts you want to have on the phone.
  
• Note that Company contacts with no first name or last name entered will show up as "no name" on the phone.
  
• Set Address Book preferences to export as vCard 2.1 format, not vCard 3.0.
  
• Option-drag them to a folder on your drive.
  
• Use Bluetooth file exchange to copy the contacts over to the phone.

To make AAC ringtones:
If you have Quicktime Pro installed, you can make them very easily.

Open up Quicktime Pro and load in the audio file you want to turn into a ringtone. You'll want to trim it down to ~25 seconds worth of audio. Go to File -> Export. In the drop down option titled "Export:", make sure you select Movie to MPEG-4, and click on Options....Once you do that, under the dropdown, select Audio, and make sure Audio Track is set as "Music", and and set the slider for the kbits/second to 24. Under channel, set it to "Mono", and Output Sample Rate to 22.050kHz. Now, set the Encoding Quality to "Best". Click on OK, and click on Save. This will save your file on your desktop.

Now, you have a (filename).mp4 file. Make sure to remove all the spaces in the file name, and rename the extention from mp4 to m4a. If you can not see the extentions, you need to enable that in your windows folder options.

You now have an AAC-endcoded file, and can upload it by using various AAC uploaders.

Thanks go out to these bloggers and posters:
www.sprintusers.com forum on a900 and ringtones
Using an a900 and a mac
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