I read about prowl a few weeks ago, and quickly dismissed it as I believed it required growl sending him the alerts. Actually it doesn’t!
Here’s the description from the website:
Prowl is a Growl client for the iPhone. Notifications from your Mac (or even Windows! see the FAQ) can be sent to your iPhone over push, with a full range of customization and grace you expect.
Just go the the prowl website, create your account, log in, go to settings and generate your API key. Once you’re done, download the prowl client for iPhone (2.79E if I remember correctly) and start it once, it will register your phone on the website.
Now, download the CLI client here (not yet in ports) and start playing around!
Here are a few things you can do with prowl already: receive Nagios alerts, know when somebody’s talking to you on irssi, ...
If you’re not an iPhone owner, then you’re probably not going to be interested by this post. If you don’t like custom ringtones then you’re definitely not going to be interested by this post. If you’re still reading, I’ll explain you quickly how to convert youtube videos to iphone ringtones.
This is basically going to be a quick walkthrough rather than a long explanation. Basically you need a way to download the youtube video (like youtube-dl) and ffmpeg compiled with faac support.
For FreeBSD users, this is as simple as installing the two ports: net/youtube_dl and multimedia/ffmpeg (make sure to run ‘make config’ and check that FAAC is on). For MacOS X users, the easiest way will be to download youtube-dl to your home directory (and put it in /usr/local/bin if you wish) and install ffmpeg following these instructions. Windows users can install iRinger (haven’t tried it but it looks quite nifty).
Ok, now for the actual information (this is actually pretty easy).
Alright, that’s it! Wait, I want to get rid of the first few seconds and the last few seconds as well. Let’s just play it in mplayer (or QuickTime, or iTunes) and find the offset (-ss option) then the length (-t option). The -y option is to force overwrite the output file.
Once this is finished, just send the ringtone to the iPhone, either using scp if your iphone is jailbroken (put it in /Library/Ringtones/) or via iTunes (just drag and drop it in Ringtones, then sync the iPhone). Enjoy!
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