Apple explains this with a scenario where you might be at work on your desk and are called for a meeting. At this point, you might only want to sync your work related content and might not want to waste time syncing other files.
This is just one aspect of several other features explained in the 84 page document. A few key points from the patent application are:
Sync personal files as well as content within specific applicatons (Eg: Recent websites (more…)

Apparently, there is no glitch while the user connects the iPhone to the computer. However, when a syncing of the
is attempted, a cryptic ”
” is displayed.
Addressing the issue, Microsoft has said, ”
Microsoft has not seen this particular question posed in the Microsoft Answers for Windows 7 community forum, nor in any of our call centers. We reviewed the issue raised on the Apple Discussion Board and are currently investigating. If we determine (more…)

The problem that existed with the sync to work with Linux was due to customized USB communications protocol on the iPhone which could not be recognized by most non-Apple devices. Also, a new hash that came with the
only made developing a syncing function all the more tedious.
According to the solution developed by Hector, an advanced API is provided by libusb-1.0 to connect to the USB devices. Another software called the usbmuxd then helps coordinate (more…)

Earlier this month, Palm had released an
that enabled Pre to sync with iTunes with the help of a hack that changed Pre's USB Product ID to that of iPod Video's and thus enabling the syncing to happen. As a follow up, Apple has now released a new version of iTunes which has disabled the syncing; yet again.
However, the new release of iTunes is not solely to counter Palm's advances. Rather, it has a more important update in the form (more…)

Google made two significant enhancements to Google.com on mobile phones on Wednesday.

The first, history sync, now makes it possible to carry over a record of your search queries when you switch between mobile and desktop versions of Google.com. Dubbed “Personalized Suggest,” Google will now remember your searches and will add them into the list of search suggestions you see as you type into the search bar. The new feature saves you (more…)

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Last week, Apple released iTunes 9.0.1, which addresses a number of iPhone syncing issues as well as making some performance and stability improvements.

During our first hands-on look of iTunes 9, we noted two problems with podcast episodes being listed in random order and being unable to arrange certain apps based on their being checkmarked and therefore set to sync to the iPhone or iPod Touch (more…)

Here is the story so far: Palm released its Pre smartphone earlier this year. In order to let Pre owners be able to seamlessly sync songs and playlists between iTunes and their phones, Palm sneakily made use of Apple 's Unique USB identifier. With this, they were able to 'fool' iTunes into thinking that Pre is an Apple device and so syncing became possible.
Apple countered this by releasing a series of iTunes updates that helped them (more…)

iPhone OS 3.1 includes the following fixes and improvements:
for now. It will be also interesting to see if iTunes 9 prevents jailbreaking the iPhone .
then download and install iPhone OS 3.1 via iTunes and please let us know how it goes.
Beta versions of iPhone OS 3.1 had broken the
, however we are hearing conflicting reports , some say it works with iPhone OS 3.1 that was released today and some say it's broken. So please wait for a (more…)

Yahoo’s new iPhone -optimized Web site.

(Credit: CNET/Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt)

Yahoo has been busy. Last week, it announced a new customizable home page you can personalize by adding favorite Yahoo services and social-networking modules. On Tuesday, Yahoo unveiled a new iPhone -optimized design for the iPhone ‘s Safari browser that invites you to sync the modules between the PC and your iPhone .

Here’s (more…)