Are you tired of having to constantly sync your iPhone to ensure that you have the latest address, calendar and bookmark changes that you have made on your computer? Then Stand Alone Inc has released an application called iPhone AutoSync to solve this problem for you to ensure that your iPhone is always up to date with the latest.
One of the problems with iPhone's contact, calendar and bookmarks functionality is that if you have made any changes in your contacts or calendar or added new bookmarks on your computer then your iPhone does not get automatically synced with the changes. iPhone only syncs your bookmarks, contacts and calendar whenever you connect iPhone to your computer.
iPhone AutoSync solves this by automatically checking your Address Book, Calendar and Safari bookmarks for any changes periodically, then it initiates a sync whenever it identifies a change. In case you are not ready to sync your latest address changes, you also have option to turn AutoSync off until you are ready to start syncing them.
However, I could not figure out exactly how it works, as it seems for now it works more like a reminder service which then syncs the changes to the iPhone when you connect it to your computer rather then magically syncing your iPhone over Wi-Fi whenever your iPhone is on the same network as your Mac.
But if you find yourself with an out of sync iPhone regularly then it would be worth checking out iPhone Autosync. Unfortunately like many applications that have been released for the iPhone, iPhone AutoSync too currently only works with Mac OS X.
iPhone AutoSync is priced at $9.95, however you can also try the 30-day trial version before you buy it. You can download the demo from this link.
Screenshot of iPhone AutoSync UI below:
How the hell do you remove it. It keep s asking me to register. I can;t even turn it off!!
Here's a free way of keeping Entourage auto sync'd with iPhone. I use Entourage (because I have to) and an Intel Mac running 10.4 OS X.
This simple shell script, will check Entourage every 30 minutes for updates and tell iTunes to sync if there are any appointment changes. You also have to have Entourage syncing with iCal for this to work – but you know that already right?
#!/bin/bash
DOSYNC=`osascript -e 'tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to get the count of (every event whose modification date > ((current date) – 30 * minutes))'`
if [ $DOSYNC -gt 0 ] ; then
osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to update'
fi
Save this file to your home directory as iphonesync.sh (or whatever)
do a chmod 755 iphonesync.sh
then set up a crontab to run this script every 30 minutes. add this to your crontab file:
30 * * * * /Users/pho/iphonesync.sh
And that's it! Free auto sync for the iPhone!