So, having left Microsoft, I find myself having to backup my iPhone to my TiBook rather than my Dell laptop. Of course, for some bizarre reason, Apple has made this difficult. I fail to understand why I cannot have music I OWN on more than one machine. Anti-deluvian thinking, surely put in place by Apple to salve the concerns of the record companies.
So I've had to engage in a search for software that will allow me to "backup" the contents of my iPhone to my Mac desktop. Failing to do that, some of the content I've loaded into my iPhone would be deleted by syncing my iPhone with my Mac. I've got some videos I've converted for viewing on the iPhone that I don't want to lose, hence my spending a couple of hours find appropriate software to accomplish this.
Along the way, I've found this cool app (TinkerTool) written by Mark Bresink, allowing me much greater control over some system features.
I'm currently trying out iLinkPhone, which seems to backup the contents of the iPhone fine, albeit with cryptic names. However, launching a file seems to play it (properly labelled) in iTunes. So, I'll try importing the content post backup completion.
Posted by artandscience at July 28, 2008 10:51 AM