By now, I am sure many iOS 5 users that are utilizing the iCloud features might have realized that its pretty difficult to backup all of your iOS data in the small 5GB of storage that is provided by Apple for a free iCloud account. This space quickly starts to fill up if you have big size apps or games are installed. But what to do about it ? One of the ways is to ditch the iCloud and go with the more “open” solution for the cloud service. As we mentioned recently, you can get the Box.net 50 ...

After you format your PC to get rid of some stubborn virus or simply perform some major hardware modifications on your computer, a reinstall of your operating system is usually needed which requires you to re-enter the product activation key. However, due to the ongoing Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative to control piracy, the number of times you can enter the key has been limited to 10. This is done in order to forestall any fraudulent installations. Now this can be a serious cause of despair ...

We have reviewed a lot of backup Cydia apps in the past to make a backup copy of your iOS device such as iPhone that you can use later on to restore in case of some miss happening. Of course, a user can simply use the iTunes backup features to backup the data of his iPhone. However, there are some limitations for example, currently you cannot sync an iOS device with more than one iTunes installation (one computer). Even more importantly what if you have jailbroken your iPhone and installed a lot ...

Here is a nice video tutorial that I came across through the XDA blog. It explains the process of how to make a Nandroid Backup on your Android based device. For those who don’t know Nandroid Backup is simply a backup of your phone’s NAND memory state to the SD card, so that in case something bad happens you can go back to the working state. For the Android modders out there it might be a trivial process on how to do a Nandroid Backup. So this tutorial is more aimed on the beginners I think. ...

I recently discovered an awesome application in the Cydia store called by the name iBye that allows to do the data backup of the many built-in iOS apps as well as App store installations. In addition it can also backup the Cydia apps and tweaks that you have installed on your jailbroken iPhone. Of course this is not the only solution to do a backup your data, for example you can use the iTunes built-in backup but that will not backup your Cydia apps. Then you have some other Cydia applications that ...

If you have jailbroken your iPhone/iPad etc. then it is very likely that you have installed many Cydia tweaks, skins and may be added some custom repo sources as well. There can be a lot of customizations that avid jailbreakers might be employing after jailbreaking their iDevices. Problem is that after you restore iOS through iTunes you are going to loose everything coming though Cydia. Basically after restoration you will be starting from scratch again! There are some Cydia applications that allow ...

One of the most annoying problems in case you restore your iDevice using iTunes is that basically you loose everything (applications,games). Although, you can manually install the desired applications at the expense of spending some time. But what about the applications and games data that was stored in the iPhone, iPad etc. You can’t bring it back! and this is too bad. Another scenario is that you are playing some game on the iPhone say Angry Birds and you want the game progress (saved data) to ...

If you are one of the proud owners of a Nook Color device and used one of our guides on how to install an Android Froyo or Android Honeycomb then you know the importance of backing-up your data on the SD card before doing any further “experimentation” without messing around that is already working . Backup:Here we describe a simple method on backing up your SD card contents in it’s entirety just in case something bad happens you have something to resort to! Right? So, just follow this simple ...

iPhone Explorer is very nice free application for Windows that supports a number of very useful features for the users that own an iOS device. With the iPhone Explorer can you look into the file system of your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch and download and upload files by USB connection. You iOS device can be used as a USB stick if you like as the software provide a simple interface to upload and download files to the device. The program also supports direct access to the photos, emails, SMS and videos ...

If you are doing an upgrade or restoring your iOS device such as iPhone then you will loose all the jailbreak applications that you might have installed on you jailbroken device. Although there is not any foolproof way to avoid this scenario but AptBackup can help to a lot of extent. Basically, this is a free application for the jailbroken devices that can be downloaded here from BigBoss repo. Once installed you just need to launch and press the Backup button to create a backup. After you loose your ...