Here a bit of a story.
I’ve created by mistake 2 iTunes accounts and I’ve bought iPhone apps under both of these accounts. A few days ago after I’ve (finally) upgraded my iPod Touch to OS4 I’ve lost all the apps installed on iPod except those ones for each I did create a backup on my PC. Trying to install back some apps I’ve seen that some of my apps were installed while other not. This was happen because, like I said some were bought under a different account. I will explain you in the next lines how to install all your apps, even those ones purchased under a different account.

The question was if is possible to cancel / delete / disable one of those two iTunes accounts so in the future I won’t repeat the same mistake of buying apps using both my accounts. Unfortunately there is no way to delete an iTunes account nor to merge multiples in one single account. The only thing you can do to assure that you’re not purchasing apps under the wrong account is to set to none the payment method from your account page in iTunes and of course to pay attention when purchasing the apps to be logged in under the right account.

Still there is a good part, authorizing your computer to work under both accounts will make possible to have on your iPod Touch / iPhone the applications bought under different iTunes accounts. So, if you want all the applications you’ve bought to be able to install on your iPod or iPhone you will have to login into your accounts, one by one, into iTunes, and then go authorize your computer for each.

Here the detailed steps:
1. connect your iPod Touch / iPhone to your computer
2. fire up your iTunes
3. go login into your accounts one by one (click in iTunes on iTunes Store from left menu then click on your account – top – right – under the search button)
4. after each login go Store / Authorize This Computer
5. after you’ve repeating authorizing your computer for each iTunes account go sync your apps but don’t forget to select all you have in the left side. Failing to select them all will make you loose what you already have installed on your gadget.

Now you should have all the bought apps on your device, no matter under which of your iTunes account you bought them :)

And another tip before you go – if you’d lost an app when syncing you can get it back at a no cost! If you know exactly the name of it go buy it again. You should get an message that you’ve already bought that app and asking you if you want it just to download it again. Tap yes and hooray, you’d get back your lost app. Now before you go look for your lost apps to recover them, make sure you are login under the same iTunes account from the moment you purchase them. Otherwise you won’t receive any message and you will just pay again for the same app!

I’ve tried everything: unplugging and replugging my iPhone, turning it OFF and ON, checking my iPhone for restrictions (none) and finally syncing it. The damn iTunes didn’t let me rearrange the apps. The screen with iPhone’s apps pages was greyed out with no chance of selecting the apps or pages.

After all, even worst, I couldn’t transfer any of my purchased apps from iPhone to computer. Tried to deauthorize / re-authorize my computer but it didn’t work out as well.

After 30-40 minutes of doing all of these and tired of looking on internet for answers I decided to restore the Norton Ghost back-up and then I was able of transferring the apps to my PC and then rearranging the apps on iPhone from within iTunes 9.0.

You might ask yourself, do I need to reinstall the computer operation system to get back to normality? If you don’t have a back-up of your system, as I had, you can try and I have the feeling that will work also, to uninstall and reinstall iTunes but try an older version. As I said I am using now iTunes 9.0 and seams just fine. Go for it.

Leave a reply here if works so others (including me) will know another solution to solve the problem besides reinstalling the OS or using the back-ups.

As a conclusion, I think this is an iTunes software bug. Another guessing is that iTunes is getting somehow corrupt after a while and is giving this error which is going everyone crazy.

What is Notes actually doing is sending emails when the iPod got network connection, a kind of “send it later” email functionality, which is not really bad if you have to compose a few email when let’s say you aren’t home, with no internet connectivity. In other words you can use the boring time spent on the bus writing emails which will be delivered to their destination when you arrive home or at a whatever place with internet connection.

To use this amazing email functionality all you have to do is to open Notes from your iPod Touch,

Notes app iPod Touch

tap “+” sign (top-right corner),

Notes app iPod Touch

write your email and then tap the Email sign (bottom-left, that “letter” sign).

The email will be sent as soon as you’ll get network connectivity on your iPod Touch.

There is a chance to get the following message: “Cannot Sent Mail. An error occurred while delivering this message.”

As you can see I received the email sent while offline, so, don’t worry, the email will be sent.

Fortunately there is a solution, even a easy one:
1. turn on your computer and connect your iPod Touch / iPhone to it.
2. hold down both, the power and the home buttons (the iPod Touch / iPhone will power off after 10 seconds)
3. after theiPod Touch / iPhone powers off, release the power button (but keep holding down the home button)
4. in no more than a couple of seconds, you should hear that Windows sounds that means the iPod is being detected by your computer again.
5. release now the home button, and your iPod will be back alive, in DFU mode.
6. open iTunes (if is not already open) and restore your iPod Touch / iPhone firmware.

Your iPod Touch / iPhone will not be jailbroken now, but at least will be functional.

So, what I discovered? The best iPhone apps for all PDF’s readers is Stanza! From now you can change the font of any PDF, in any way you want: font size, font color, etc. Just amazing! Sorry, but I have to go now to read these one thousand PDF books waiting for me! :p

In order to make working the sync I had to setup the Outgoing Mail Server or, simple, SMTP server on iPod. No matter if you are planning to do the same or you just want to install other similar app you have to type the following data in the requested fields:

1. Host Name: smtp.gmail.com
2. User Name: here you type your gmail address
3. Password: your gmail account password
4. Use SSL: ON
5. Authentication: Password
6. Server Port: 587

SMTP server setup iPhone

If you’re still wondering how to transfer photos from iPod Touch / iPhone to your computer there is a simple way (actually, two ways, depending of your computer settings) to do it and YOU DON’T NEED ANY SOFTWARE! Yes, it’s true, to get the synced photos off, you’ll DON’T need to use a third-party tool.

The Solution(s):
A.
1. Plug in your iPod Touch / iPhone.
2. This will pop-up a new window “Select the program to launch for this action”.
3. Click on Microsoft Scanner and Camera wizard / Next.

4. Select de pictures you wanted transferred to your PC and Click Next, give to the group of pictures a name and choose a place to save this group of pictures.
5. Check Delete pictures from my device after copying them if you want to have this pictures only on your PC.
6. Click Next and all your selected pictures will be transferred from your iPod Touch / iPhone to your PC.

B.
1. Plug in your iPod Touch / iPhone and there will be no such a message “Select the program to launch for this action”. See How to enable “Select the program to launch for this action” message.
2. Go to My Computer and right click on User’s iPod (or User’s iPhone’s I guess for iPhone users).
3. Click on Get Pictures. It will pop up a new window like the following one. Click Next and follow the same steps you get used to follow for transferring files from other devices like a photo camera, etc. This steps are described in the previous method, as well.

So, what is the best apps that I play with on my iPhone iPod Touch?

So far the most important one is Touch Todo. Is a scheduler, a To Do application which is giving you the chance to synchronize your Google Calendar with iPhone / iPod Touch. No matter where you add a new task to do, on Google Calendar or directly into your iPhone / iPod Touch using Touch Todo, you can synchronize them both for more control and accuracy without any third part application.

Another iPhone / iPod Touch useful application (maybe I should put it on the first place) is Jaadu, a remote desktop app which is giving you the total control over the PC. You can do anything you want with a computer using this application. Of course there are lots of remote desktop applications but in my opinion Jaadu is the best.

The iPhone that I’m using daily is IM+ with push. It helps me to keep in touch with my friends wherever I have WIFI connectivity. I can chat with friends on Yahoo Messenger, Skype, Twitter, GTalk, etc. The only thing I don’t like is that is not supporting more than one account to log in on Twitter.

Because I like to read the daily news I’m using Pro RSS which in my opinion is the best RSS reader for iPod Touch / iPhone. To tell you a secret I have in my RSS list only the TechCrunch feeds. It seems that they have the best articles about technology. And who doesn’t like news as this one?

Notes PRO is a gorgeous mobile application. I still stick with it from that day I discover it! Writing notes and update them to Google Docs within a single tap. Don’t you find it amazing?

Enough for today. I’ll come back with another iPhone apps I’m using for a while and you can’t miss them,too.

1. Go to Settings, General, Keyboard and turn ON Enable Caps Lock

2. double tap the Shift Key from the iPhone / iPod Touch keyboard. The Shift Key button will became blue permanently as long the CAPS LOCK is enabled. To disable it, tap once the Shift Key.

No need for a new application :)
Cons. CAPS LOCK is being disabled when you go from letters to numbers and come back. You will have to double tap again the Shift Key if you want CAPS LOCK enabled. Kinda annoying if you have a mix of CAPS LOCK letters and numbers (e.g. a password).
Tested on version 2.2.1

What I discovered it’s quite helpfully for everyone I guess. It’s about making shortcuts / icons on the screen for preferred web addresses. This means when you are accessing frequently some websites, you can create icons directly into the applications list onto your iPod Touch / iPhone screen and you can access these websites very easy and fast.

Steps:
1. open Safari Browser on your iPod Touch / iPhone
2. open your preferred website
3. tap the “+” sign on the bottom of the screen

4. tap “Add to Home Screen”

5. give it a name and press “Add”

Now you’ll have a small print screen or the website icon, as an icon into the apps list on your iPhone screen :)
Nice huh? ;)

1. press menu button and after that press the hold button (on the top of your iPod).

2. go to pictures / saved photos and you’ll find there the screen shot :)

Wondering what you can do with these screen shots? If you have a blog about iPods/iPhones, you’ll find this screen shots very usefull.

I couldn’t find yet a free app to download these screen shots on my pc, but as soon I get some of them I’ll be back with another article.
Till then, have fun! ;)

UPDATE: I got a really good application, not free unfortunately, very good for downloads from iPod Touch to PC – Touch Copy

Here is the screenshot of my iPod display ;)