Monday September 1 2008
Wow! I didn’t expect that I would manage to keep up with making a ringtone every day, and I did not expect that it would quickly get so popular! One month of ringtones later, and I got 1250+ subscribers. That’s a bigger audience than I ever had in all my years of gigging with Endymaeria.
Interestingly, I got almost no visits to the aringtoneaday.com website, and although it is slowly picking up the pace (60 daily visitors now), it seems that almost everyone directly subscribes from the iTunes Store. In fact, today A Ringtone A Day climbed to top 4 podcast in NL!
I’m very happy to see it is so popular and I’m also happy that I brought a bit of music-making back in my life, even though I’m crazily busy with work these days. Cheers everybody!
Thursday July 31 2008
Since I am not making enough music I came up with a little fun project to force me. Mostly I don’t have the time to sit down for a few hours and finish the basics of a song. Combine that with being really bad at finishing something when out of the original flow of creation and the result is that I produce almost nothing anymore.
So, from today, every day, I’ll post a home-made iPhone ringtone to a special mini-site: A Ringtone A Day. The first three have been made! It doesn’t take much time to make one, so my aim is that this way I’ll incorporate some musical creation back in my life, even if it’s just a little bit.
Wednesday July 30 2008
That’s a small bummer. I have a personal calendar on my MacBook Pro using iCal. At work I have an Exchange calendar. When you sync using ActiveSync on the iPhone you lose the personal iCal calendar. :(
Simple solution for Apple: add the synced Exchange calendar(s) as extra calendar(s) in the calendars overview screen. No confusion for the user, easy split between personal and work calendars. Let’s hope iPhone 2.1 brings this!
Update: this has been fixed with iPhone OS 3
