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# Gizmodo via Mystery Man - iPhone Ringtone Sounds Like Holy Angels Tinkling: Download it Here - get yours today, before Apple's lawyers do their thing. [irc]

# Nicholas Shanks & Uli Kusterer - ResKnife "is a resource editor for the Macintosh. It sup­ports resource files in any named fork (data, resource or one of your choosing), runs natively on Mac OS X, as well as classic Mac OS, and allows editing the data fork using any of its editors." Free. Small (264K download). [google]

# I purchased Speed Download after successfully resuming, multiple times, a 24-hour, 5 gigabyte download. I had a problem, though, which I had to work around. I attempted to post the following to the Speed Download Forums, but was told that it contained a censored word (likely my login ID: imacpr0n). Hopefully, Johnny will let it through, and add the requested feature:

I was downloading a 5 gigabyte installer DMG over a 60 kbyte/sec DSL line. This took over 24 hours, during which I moved my computer from my office to my home and back again. All went well until I got back to my office, and attempted to resume the download. It got a 404 (file not found) from the web server. It's a web server that requires a login, which sets a cookie, in order to get to the download area. Then you can request the file. Speed Download did exactly the right thing in remembering the cookie, and resumed fine until the last resume. My guess is that the cookie had a 24 hour expiration. I had to re-login and download the file again. I was hoping that Speed Download would notice that I was downloading a second copy of the same file that was paused in its earlier download (with well over 4 gigs downloaded), and ask me whether I wanted to proceed with the earlier download. No such luck.

After looking around at the download directories a bit, I figured out what to do. Call the first partial download directory file.dmg.partial. The second one was named file.dmg.1.partial. I quit from Speed Download, renamed file.dmg.1.partial to file.dmg.2.partial, created a duplicate of the file.dmg.partial directory and renamed it to file.dmg.1.partial, replaced the properties.plist file in the file.dmg.1.partial directory with a copy of the properties.plist file from file.dmg.2.partial, restarted Speed Download, and resumed the second download. It proceeded from the point that the first download had stopped and successfully downloaded the rest of the file.

Boy would it be nice if Speed Download would notice a former partial download of the same file name with the same length and do the right thing. It wouldn't need to copy the first partial download directory. It could just overwrite the properties.plist file and resume.

# I reported on 9 January about my purchase of a Radian SkyTone RST103 USB Skype phone. People have been complaining about hearing an echo of their voice since I started using SkypeOut regularly. Yesterday, I traced the problem to using the microphone on this phone. If I use my iMac's microphone, the echo goes away. So I'm back to headphones and the internal mic, or the cheap headset I bought a year or so back. Wonder if I can get my money back for the SkyTone, or convince them to fix their software, if that's the problem. But my mom says that she still hears an echo of my voice, even though she no longer hears the echo of her voice, so maybe SkypeOut is just not ready for prime time.

# JC at mac geekery Nondestructively Resizing Volumes - since Boot Camp, the diskutil command-line tool allows a disk volume to be resized. This article gives details. I haven't tried it. I'm using an external firewire disk for my extra volume needs. [google]

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