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iPhone iOS 4 now stores photos in one folder

Jules — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:35:11 +0000

Tech blogs have done a pretty good job of drilling down into iOS4’s new features, both big and small, but here’s a very minor one they’ve missed (I think). Until iOS 4, the iPhone stored photos in a seemingly random fashion within any number of folders inside the DCIM folder — a quick check on [...]

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iPhone iOS 4 now stores photos in one folder

How to sync an iPhone with two computers

Jules — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:11:45 +0000

Unless you’re using over-the-air Microsoft Exchange syncing with your iPhone (via Google Mobile Sync, NuevaSync or a corporate Exchange server), you’re probably keeping its contact and calendar information in sync with Outlook or iCal using iTunes. This works well enough, but what if your calendar and contact data is stored one computer (at the office, [...]

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How to sync an iPhone with two computers

Where does iTunes keep its iPhone backups?

Jules — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:57:51 +0000

Whenever an iPhone is synchronised with iTunes, iTunes makes a backup of (most of) the iPhone’s data. You can view the iTunes’ backup history by going to Preferences > Devices. iTunes maintains some kind of history for successive backups, but I have no idea of the underlying logic. You would imagine that three or four [...]

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Where does iTunes keep its iPhone backups?

How to sync Google Contacts and Calendar with the iPhone using Google Mobile Sync

Jules — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:24:55 +0000

Google now offers its own ExchangeSync service for smartphones called Google Sync for Mobile, which means you now now automatically synchronise your Google Account data with your handheld over Wi-Fi or a mobile data connection. If you’re an iPhone or iPod Touch owner, this means you can now synchronise your Google Calendar and Contacts data [...]

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How to sync Google Contacts and Calendar with the iPhone using Google Mobile Sync

How to sync multiple iPhone calendars with Google

Jules — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:10:10 +0000

If you’ve recently set-up Google Mobile Sync to synchronise your Calendar and Contacts with your iPhone over-the-air, you may have noticed that only one Google Calendar is being synced. It is possible to set-up Google Mobile Sync to sync up to five calendars, though (the maximum the iPhone supports) – you just need to make [...]

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How to sync multiple iPhone calendars with Google

Backup your iPhone contacts to Google with iTunes

Jules — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:34:10 +0000

If you want to use Google Mobile Sync to keep your iPhone synchronised with your Google Calendar and Contacts, you’ll have to backup any existing contacts on your iPhone first, otherwise Google Sync will delete them. Fortunately, there is an easy way to do this and you can use iTunes to upload your contacts to [...]

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Backup your iPhone contacts to Google with iTunes