When living with an iPod or iPhone and you find you have a lot of storage left on your device wouldn’t it be nice if you could use that to backup your files automatically.  With Clickfree you can do just that and much more easily than you might think.  According to their site all you need to do is plug the device into a USB port on your Mac or PC and then plug your iPod or iPhone into the Clickfree device.  

It then scans your computer for files you might want to backup and then backs up what it can to your iPod.  The company says it never overwrites your existing music or files on your device and works without even touching it, hence the click-free part.  The cost is $49.99 and if it works as it says it could be very valuable indeed, especially if you have an iPod Classic around with a lot of storage left over.

[Clickfree]

See the full Press Release Below:

  Apple has done it again.  Just when you thought no company had a growing profit margin, Apple continues to steamroll expectations.  The 3rd quarter profit of $1.23 billion is the most the company has ever made just outside of a holiday quarter ever.  

During their quarterly conference call, Steve Jobs announced they had sold over 5.2 million iPhones in this quarter alone.  Their profits continue to rise due to iTunes sales and the hugely successful App Store.  Hopefully some companies have been taking note and can turn their companies around in the "squeezing of ones finances", time.

If you would like to listen to the conference call you can do so [here]

  We knew a new iPod lineup or refresh was coming this september as usual.  What we did not really know is that the lineup looks to include an iPod Touch that has a camera built in.  This comes as no surprise as we always thought that Apple would add a camera to their iPod Touch line.  

Techcrunch reported:

"One of our sources in Asia say that Apple has placed an order for a massive number of camera modules of the type that they include in the iPhone. These are inexpensive cameras, in the $10 range. And the size of the order, our source says, means they can only be used for one thing – the iPods."

The picture above comes from The AppleLounge who found this case at Deal Extreme.

  By now most of us know that the Palm Pre syncs with iTunes, but the real question is how this is accomplished.  Many have stated that they believe Apple and Palm have struck a deal to get this accomplished.  According to John Johansen’s Blog this is not the case.  

"So how has Palm most likely enabled the Pre to sync directly with iTunes? By doing the following:

1. When you select “Media Sync” on the Pre, it will switch its USB interface to use Apple’s Vendor Id and the Product Id for a specific iPod model
2. The Pre exposes a filesystem through Mass Storage Class that mimics the structure of an iPod
3. The Pre responds to Apple’s custom USB command and returns XML info about the device

What can Apple do about this? When two parties implement an open standard, there’s usually some differences. In this case, there’s two implementations of a proprietary standard and it’s almost guaranteed that there will be differences. Apple will analyze the Pre and find out what those are. They will then be able to update iTunes to tell a real iPod apart from the “PrePod”."

While we all knew the Palm Pre has a very nice interface and the usability looks to be on the same level as the iPhone, the way to put media onto said device was the true differentiating factor.  Others have tried to accomplish syncing with iTunes via third party software, but now that the Pre mimics an iPod and syncs directly to iTunes, it makes the Pre a true competitor to the iPhone in ever way.  Competition is always a good thing and hopefully it causes Apple to take note and further innovate themselves while lowering the price to remain competitive.  Only time will tell what the Pre is capable of and what SPrint could do to possibly emerge as a better carrier.  We are betting the Pre really takes off once it moves to Verizon 6 or so months down the road.

[via MacRumors & Engadget]

  With the buildup to WWDC long underway there have been a lot of rumors and not much in the way of new physicality.  We have a couple new pictures of the bezel and internals from iphone-ticker.de.  They do not show us a whole lot, but give us a few ideas about the next iPhone.  iLounge broke down the visual information into what has changed from the current iPhone 3G.

"Notably, the bezels appear to show a repositioned and redesigned ear speaker, now significantly higher above the display than the present speaker, and ringed with metal, a change that may make room for additional front-mounted sensor or camera hardware. Also changed is the bezel’s color, which has shifted from the prior silver in all iPhone and iPhone 3G models to a nearly black metallic color reminiscent of the backs of later fifth-generation iPod U2 Special Edition models."

There you have it, more confirmation of slight changes to an ever growing populous of iPhone.  Only a week or so from now we should know more.