I recently obtained an iPhone. Yes it is the iPhone 4 with notorious reception problems. I’ve had none so far.

I wanted to get a custom ringtone, so I purchased a couple of songs labeled as ringtones from the iTunes store. Beware. Not all tracks found with a search on “ringtone” are actually ringtones. I tried just renaming the file, changing the extension from .m4a to .m4r, but that didn’t work. I asked Apple, but their first response was inaccurate (told me to look for a check box that isn’t there in the current version) and I haven’t yet heard back.

Using the magic of Google, I found a page from a site that has MP3 software that tells how to do it in iTunes 10. It really works!

The second magic of Google came when I went to send an e-mail. I wrote in the e-mail that I was attaching a file. I went to send it without attaching the file, but Gmail interrupted me to ask if I was sure I wanted to send it, since I had mentioned an attachment but not attached anything. Great feature!

Now I just hope they aren’t parsing and storing everything we write….