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When my Mac desktop crashed I found myself in the position of having address book and calendar entries only on my Vista computer and I wanted to be able to put these files onto my new MacBook Pro laptop. It turns out iTunes stores the backups of your iPhone in a file with the extension “.mdbackup” and with some work you can extract this data.

If you are running Mac OS X, it is located at:

USERNAME/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/

If you are running Vista, it is located at:

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

(It is important to note you cannot access this from Windows Explorer. You must open a command prompt, change to this directory and make a xcopy of the files to a location that is accessible in explorer, such as a new folder on your desktop.)

Once you have made copies of these files, I would suggest you use this fantastic program to extract the data from the backup files. Note: this program only runs on a Mac. If you are running Windows, it is a slightly complicated task that is best outlined in this blog post.

After you run the above mac program you will end up with a bunch of sqlite database files whose data can easily be extracted with the SQLite Database Browser.

Hope this helps.

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now playing: Lady GaGa – Beautiful, Dirty, Rich

So here is an interesting feature my brother accidentally found that the iPhone has and I’m spreading the word: The ability to take a screenshot and save it to your camera roll. Turns out that by simultaneously pressing the lock button on the top and the home button near the bottom it will cause the screen to flash and save a screenshot of your current screen to your camera roll. Pretty sweet eh?

iPhone iPod screenshot

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now playing: Hilary Duff – Happy

I’ve had my iPhone 3g for a couple weeks now and I’m still trying to decide if I am as fond of the new 3g as I was of the original.

That aside, I have been testing to see how much bandwidth AT&T is actually dedicating to each phone out of the theoretical 54mb/s speed of a 3g network and am pleased to note that I have been consistantly getting 1.69mb/s. Really no complaints from me as that trumps the 0.32mb/s I received with the first generation iPhone’s edge network, and is faster then the rumoured 1.4mb/s limit that was circulating before the release of the phone.

That’s one point in favour of the iPhone 3g against the original….. Too bad the rest of the phone has a laundry list of problems & annoyances which make me wonder why I stood in line in the rain overnight to be one of the first to get this phone, but that’s part of a future post on my experience/review of the new iPhone which I’ll add once I’ve had it a little while longer.

I’m writing this post on my iPhone via the just released wordpress app. I wish the iTunes app store had been out when I was in Austria earlier this year because I could have really used the ability to upload pictures taken with the iPhone’s camera when blogging from my iPhone. ( As a test image I took a pic of my new rig I talked about in my previous post. ) Well, enough messing around on my phone… back to work I go.