Site Seeing – Week Five

Ninite – Easy PC Software Installations

http://ninite.com/

Auto installs your selection of useful programs after that inevitable Windows install.. It’s even clever enough to prevent it installing those nasty bundled toolbars! (via @fry15)

Font Fonter – Preview Fonts On Any Site

http://fontfonter.com/

From fontshop, this tool lets you preview a selection of their fonts on any webpage of your choice. Try Bencollier.net in FF Duper Web.

Sharekit – Open source, drop-in share features for all iOS apps

http://getsharekit.com/

Enables sharing via Delicious, Email, Facebook, Google Reader, Instapaper, Pinboard, Read It Later, Tumblr, Twitter and more! Just simply copy the files into your iOS app. The whole UI can be customised and it’s open source!

iTunes could not back up the iPhone because the iPhone refused the request – iOS 4

Problem

When running iPhone OS 4 beta 1, syncing with iTunes doesn’t backup the iPhone causing the error:

iTunes could not back up the iPhone because the iPhone refused the request

Fix

Install the iPhone SDK 4 beta with Xcode 3.2.3 (or later), which will update some files in iTunes and enable the backup to complete successfully.

An iTunes update is likely to be released soon to address this and other issues some users are experiencing with syncing.

Update 25/04/10: Apparently iPhone OS 4 beta 2 backs up in iTunes 9.1 without any issues.