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As a big Forza aficionado, I couldn’t help but leave this here for all of you out there.

Worst thing that can happen is when you format your computer and you need to sync your iPhone, iPod or iPad with your computer. And what happens? Everything gets messed up and you need to set up everything from scratch.

I found this by chance, and for it to work you need to have iOS5 and an iCloud account.

This was tested using the iPhone 4, the iPad 2, Windows 7 and Snow Leopard, all up to date, using iTunes 10.5 Beta 7.

So, what are the steps?

1 – Make a backup into the cloud of your device;

2 – Restore your device settings. Upon restart you will get the welcome screen to input all your details.

3 – When you get a choice to restore from a backup, choose the iCloud backup. This will make the device start to download all the apps you had previously.

4 – Once the device starts downloading the apps, connect it to the computer with iTunes open.

5 – On iTunes, choose the device, go to the apps tab and choose to sync the apps. You will see that the device kept the layout configuration you had already setup.

6 – Just wait for it to finish synchronizing and you are all done.

Today I received a white carbon cover for the iPhone 4. Looks nice doesn’t?

Some time ago I upgraded the hard drive on my macbook to a bigger one, creating a image of the old one and dumping on the new one. Everything worked fine, except it took a long time to actually start the booting process.

Today I found a solution for it: go into System Preferences -> Startup Disk, then choose the harddrive and click restart. This worked out for me, as now it starts booting from the hard drive immediately after I power the machine on.

Well, 8 more hours of work, and then is a 5 day rest If I was back home there would be the carnival to attent, but here the carnival is only in the end of August, so a couple more months of wait.

Also recently I’ve started doing some work on the iPhone: a sound app to generate music tracks. Yes, there are already some on the AppleStore, but is a good way to learn openAL and make something interesting at the same time

EDIT: Just noticed that with the latest version of wordpress you get a nice topbar when you are on the frontend (and logged in) to add new pages, check comments and a couple other things. Really useful