iPhone Passion

Every time I connect my iPhone to the computer, iTunes would start backing it up. And it’s slooow - really slow - at least half an hour of waiting.
There’s a fix for this, which I found on Zerologic: disable automatic iTunes backup, and only allow manual backups for it.

Here’s how to do it:

1. - Quit iTunes.
2. - Open Terminal.app
3. - Copy and paste this in, then hit return:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes AutomaticDeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true

4. - Copy and paste this in, then hit return:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool false

5. - Open iTunes
6. - Plug in your iPhone (2.0 or 3G) and sync.

Now it finally looks more like in the good old days of the 1.1.4 firmware. Almost instantaneous sync. Hurray!