Filed under: Developer, Utilities, Macintosh, Productivity, iPhone, Troubleshooting
What's really on your iPhone? Find out with iPhone Backup Extractor
by Jay Hathaway Nov 14th 2008 at 9:00AM
When you back up your iPhone or iPod Touch, iTunes can use the backup to do a restore, but not much else. It's nice when Apple's stuff "just works," but what if you want to see inside the black box and interact with the data on your phone? This is especially important for developers, who can fix bugs a lot more easily if they can look at a user's backup to figure out what's causing problems with an app. iPhone Backup Extractor is a tool that makes this possible.With iPhone Backup Extractor, you can convert an iPhone/iPod Touch backup to make it readable by the OS X Finder. This lets developers get access to application resources that there's no way to see in iTunes. It might be of some interested to curious non-developers, too, if you just to figure out what files a 3rd-party app has created on your phone.
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With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jash Sayani said 1:17PM on 11-14-2008
Just tried it out this morning. Its indeed a great app.
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Sanjay Goel said 9:57AM on 11-17-2008
Anything similar on Windows?
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tejumang said 12:12PM on 12-12-2008
@ Sanjay...
this App won't be useful in Windows platform to the Developers as the SDK works only on a Mac