iPhone News Updated

Download iPod Access Photo 1.7 - Supports iPhone OS 3.0

iPod Access Photo, the premier application for copying photos from your iPod or iPhone to your Mac, has reached version 1.7. Adding support for iPhone OS 3.0, iTunes 8.2, and improved support for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, the new release is a free update for previous users – just download and install!

“Need to get photos off your iPod and back onto your Mac? If so, you have probably realized that the iPod stores photos in ithmb files,” Findley Designs says. “These files contain all the photo data for your iPod to display but can not be read by regular photo programs. iPod Access Photo solves this problem by allowing you to select individual photos and albums to be moved back onto your computer or an external hard drive.”

iPod Access Photo is also a companion to iPod Access, the company reveals. The latter allows you to copy your music and videos off your iPod and to your computer. “With both programs installed on your computer you have complete control over all the media on your iPod that is important to you,” the developer adds.
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Next iPhone will charge via Micro USB

Apple signs up to phone charger “harmonization”

Apple has signed up to an EU-wide “harmonization” of phone chargers, which Pocket-lint first brought you news of back in September 2007.

The iPhone-maker has joined Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, RIM, Samsung and Texas Instruments in signing an agreement to use a standard micro-USB socket to charge handsets.

The agreement means that from next year, Apple will have to offer a micro USB socket on the iPhone. Whether that means that the traditional dock connector will be changed or whether there’ll be an adaptor remains to be seen.

It’s unclear too what’ll happen to the dock ecosystem that’s built up around the iPod and iPhone. We’ve put in an email to Apple asking it to clarify what the company’s plans are, but have had no response at the time of writing.

On the bright side, the agreement should mean an end to the difficulty of coping with five different chargers in your house or office. Here’s hoping that the European Comission offers some way of recycling all those old chargers that are now redundant.

[Thanks: http://www.pocket-lint.com]