Copy Songs from an iPhone/iPod to Your Computer WITHOUT iTunes

Let me talk you through one of my worst nightmares. I changed my laptop a lot for various reasons. There are times, however, where for whatever reason I re-install the OS, which happens to link in to the aforementioned nightmare… I’ve been collecting music on my iPod for years, and my iTunes library is just over 5GB in size, not counting any of my TV shows or movies. If I forget to back up my library and format my hard drive, then I’m screwed.

That was the exact situation I was in a few days ago. My iTunes library was gone, and I needed some way to get all the files off my iPhone and on to my hard drive. If you re-install iTunes and sync your iPod with an empty library, you’ll just end up with an empty iPod, and then you HAVE lost your music! Before you start panicking about your precious music collection being lost though, try a little app called SharePod! Have a look at this free wonderful little app called Sharepod.

And when I say little I mean less than 3 MB, no install necessary and completely portable. Sharepod lets you hook up to any iPod, iPhone and iPod Touch and move your content without having to download or install iTunes. A boon for anyone who uses one iPod but wants to manages music across multiple computers



SharePod can browse all the files of your iPod, backup your library, copy songs to your PC and even add songs. The best feature of this application is that it doesn’t require iTunes to be installed to work – just plug your iPod into your PC and open SharePod, and you can browse, add and remove anything!

Setting up Call diverts for O2 UK

I was looking to setup diverts on Iphone and found there is no way to do it as iphone OS will not let you to select diversion options.These codes will help!

About Call Diverts

With call diverts you can divert incoming calls to a fixed phone, or to another mobile. There are four call diversion options available which you can set up from your mobile:


Not Reachable Divert

* To activate **62* phone number # SEND

* To cancel ##62# SEND

* To check status *#62# SEND


Divert calls when busy

* To activate **62* phone number # SEND

* To cancel ##62# SEND

* To check status *#62# SEND


Divert calls when there is no reply

* To activate **61* phone number *11* no seconds# SEND

* To cancel ##61# SEND

* o check status *#61# SEND


Divert all calls

* To activate **21* phone number # SEND

* To cancel ##21# SEND

* To check status *#21# SEND


To cancel all call diverts

* To cancel ##002# SEND

Free Custom iPhone Ringtones Using Only iTunes

Create free ringtones for your iPhone using only iTunes and songs you already have on your computer (This method only works with songs that are DRM free. To create ringtones using DRM protected songs please use this method). This method has been tested and works with iTunes 7.7.1 and iPhone 2.0.1 firmware.

To create custom ringtones using only iTunes:

1) Right click on the song you are going to make into a ringer and select “Get Info.”

2) Go to the options tab and go down to the “Start Time” and “Stop Time” check boxes. Check both boxes and input the time you want your ringer to start/stop. The ringer has to be 30 seconds or less. Click OK when you’re done.

3)Right click on your newly “clipped” song and select “Convert Selection to AAC.” The song will be re-encoded using the start and stop times determined (If your menu item does not read “Convert Selection to AAC” and reads “Convert Slection to MP3″ (or some other format) please go to iTunes > Preferences > Advanced > Importing and change the “Import Using” drop down menu to “AAC Encoder”).


4)After the song is done encoding navigate to your iTunes Music folder, locate your song, and drag it to your desktop. After the song is on your desktop go back to iTunes and delete the clipped version from you iTunes library (It won’t delete it from your desktop, it will only remove it from iTunes).

5)Go back the song on your desktop and right click on your song and chose “Get info.” Go to the name and extension section and change the extension from .m4a to .m4r (or you can just change the extension right from your desktop)

6)After the extension is changed simply double click on the file to add it to your iTunes library under the ringtones section. Sync your phone with iTunes and you’re done!

Remember to go back into iTunes and uncheck your custom start and stop times for the original version of your song.