I want to have song from my song list in iTunes into a ringtone I can use on my iPhone? Is it even possible, and if so, how do I go about this?

I purchased my iPhone 5 just before the New Year on December 29th. I was so excited and still love my new phone, but after using it for a week or so, I knew I was going to need some help getting through my favorite convention, CES, the Consumer Electronic Show.

It is amazing how Las Vegas runs down any mobile phone. Phones simply die much faster out there. I always practice my ABC's, Always Be Charging, but I knew that was going to be next to impossible during CES. CES is a marathon. I'm on the move for the four days, running from meeting to meeting, checking out new products, talking with developers, manufacturers and listening to speeches. There's just no time to plug in and charge.

My sister and I constantly have problems finding each other when we meet on business trips. Somehow where she thinks she is and where I think I am isn't always correct. I understand there's actually a way that we could send each other a map with current locations since we both have iPhones. How do we do that?

I've written before about the problems I've had with the built-in hands-free bluetooth system I have in my 2008 Toyota Highlander. I've given up using it, actually, as I got tired of people complaining that they couldn't hear me. I even called up Toyota asking if there was an upgrade path and their answer was "nope." Not so useful. To compensate, we've been testing out a lot of different bluetooth hands-free systems, both little speaker devices that hook to the visor and headsets.

Problem is, a car is a noisy environment, particularly when I'm zipping down the highway at 70mph, surrounded by traffic.

Enter the amazing VXI BlueParrott Xpress wireless headset that's specifically designed for high noise environments like construction sites and crowded spaces. Should be plenty enough for my car, right? Read on to find out...

I get a ton of audio gear here at Ask Dave Taylor and I'm definitely not complaining. From headphones to speakers, we have enough gear that there's a separate audio system in every single room in our office. And we have a lot of rooms. Much of it proves uninteresting once I put it through its paces, like little external speakers that sound tinny and are way too quiet to work in any but the most tomb-like of spaces to headphones that miss all the nuances in good music (our test music is usually classic jazz vocals like Ella Fitzgerald, in case you're curious).

Still, there are areas of audio tech that are new and worth exploring, and both of the products reviewed in this article fit that bill. The first, dblogic earphones, are earbuds designed specifically to max out at a reasonable sound pressure level, helping avoid any hearing loss, particularly in younger music fans like my kids.

The second device seems more magical, though it might be a bit less practical: iFrogz Boost is a near-field audio amplifying speaker which lets you put any audio source on top of it and have that audio play through the device too, louder and usually with better audio fidelity. That's right, put any cellphone on the gizmo and suddenly it sounds way better. Even speaker phone calls.

Read on for my hands-on experience with both...

I haven't yet figured out how to work with the auto-upload capability of the Google Plus app on my iPhone, but I like the idea that all my photographs are automatically uploaded for me to peruse later. Can you show me how I can actually publish some of them, however? Know what I mean?

I've been playing Words with Friends and am just starting a game with someone who I just realized is a gal I don't want to play games with. We have kind of a history. She's sly, though, not having a real name associated with her Words with Friends account, so it was only a mutual friend who told me. Now I want to resign the game. How do I do that on my iPhone?

My daughter got overenthusiastic and preordered a bunch of upcoming music CDs from the Apple iTunes Store. Not so good. Once they all ship, I'm looking at over $100 in music purchases, way more than I can afford. Is there some way to cancel these pre-orders before they're charged to my iTunes account?

I admit it, I don't sync my iPad with my computer very often. Nor do I sync my iPhone, for that matter. Just seems a hassle. On the other hand, when I do, there are tons of updated apps. Isn't there some way to update my applications directly on my iPhone or iPad, Dave?

I love Starbucks and go there all the time. It's no surprise that I like the slick Starbucks app for my iPhone too, it shows me the closest 'bux and also manages my gold card, letting me swipe the phone to pay for purchases and track drinks so I get those lovely free drink after 15 cards. Problem is, my son snagged my phone last time we were at Starbucks and promptly bought himself a new thermos and a bunch of VIA, which I didn't find out about until I saw my balance drop precipitously. Is there some way to prevent this from happen, to add a password to the Starbucks app itself?

My iPhone and MacBook are constantly connected, and with the advent of wireless sync in iOS 5, even when they're not connected, my phone still stays in sync with my computer data, which would be a life saver if I ever -- horrors! -- lost my iPhone.

But most people who have iPhones don't sync very often at all, and a surprising number of iPhone owners have never sync'd their phone to their computer.

That's the old school vision of your cellphone as a standalone device that works or dies, and there's no way for you to interact with it on your computer or in "the cloud", so I completely understand people who go from a Motorola or a Nokia device to an iPhone and use it the same way.

The problem is, what if their phone gets broken or they lose it? What happens to the photos they took on the device? What happens to their contact list and address book?

Enter the simple, ingenious iomega SuperHero Backup & Charger for iPhone.

Everyone keeps telling me how they find all these great bargains and deals by using the location features in their iPhones, but I have an iPhone too and I have no idea how to find any of this stuff. It's a phone. What am I missing?

Hi Dave. I've seen your earlier article on how to tweak my text message notification beep [see iPhone beep repeatedly on new text messages?] but now that I'm running iOS 5, it no longer works. On iPhone iOS5, how can I change this notification setting?

I spend a lot of time surfing the Web on my iPhone 4 and sometimes want to share what I find with my administrative assistant. On my laptop, I can just copy and paste the URL, but in Safari on my Apple iPhone, I can't seem to do the same without a lot of hassle. Is there an easier way to share a Web page address on the little gizmo?

My parents live in Mumbai, India and sometimes when I call them I realize that I've mis-computed the timezone change and woken them up. They are forgiving - they're good parents! - but I'd like to be a bit smarter about it all. How can I add Mumbai as a world clock on my iPhone?

I read your article yesterday about how to set up Picasa [soon to be renamed "Google Photos"] so you can email a photo to your Picasa account, but you sort of skipped the step of how to actually send that message from the phone. When I go to send a message, there's never an "add attachment" or "add photo" button on my iPhone. Am I missing something?

I want to add some photos to my Picasa album from my iPhone. I believe you can do that by emailing yourself the photos - which is pretty easy to do on the iPhone - but I don't know what address to use on Picasa [soon to be renamed "Google Photos", btw]. Help!

I've seen some people on Google Plus checking in at specific Google Places venues but I don't see how they're doing that. Google Local is shut down and I can't figure out how, using the iPhone mobile interface, they're doing it. Help!

Every time I plug in my iPhone to my Toshiba PC laptop running Microsoft Windows 7, it promptly tries to import all the pictures and place copies of them into "My Pictures". It's driving me crazy. How the heck do I stop Windows trying to import my iPhone photos?

I have my iPhone set up as a personal hotspot through AT&T but suspect that using it via wifi slows me down and that if I could plug it directly into my computer, it'd work faster. Is that true, and if so, how can I tether my iPhone via USB to my MacBook and gain faster access to the Internet?