Deleting old iPhone and iPad backups in itunes on a Mac.

You might want to clean out all old back-ups of iPhones and iPads.

Run Software Update on the Mac that you back up to all the time.  It should have your music/photos/mail on it.  

Make sure iTunes is up to date.

Run update on your Phone or iPad from iTunes.  iOS 5 is seeing reduced battery life on iPhone 4 by the way...

Sync iphone/ipad first….

In iTunes go to prefs>devices and you can click on and delete them there.

Then delete ALL back-ups… (the iPhone/ipad has all the data, a back up is just a back up)

Then Sync again.

Now its all cleaned up.

**I have a 16gb iPhone and a 32gb iPad and both are full of music and photos and a few apps.  Photos/Music reside in other locations so backups shouldn't be that large, it is just backing up address books, mail (attachments) etc….  I see with 2 back ups stored its almost 2 gigs of data.  If you had many iPhones, iOSs and iPads it could be very very large.

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Oh, and for you nerds out there the User Library folder is now HIDDEN in 10.7 (thank you apple).  You can find it by clicking on the desktop.  THEN holding down the option key and navigating up to GO on the top bar.  You will see the Library in the list of things there.  I can only imagine that idiots are mass deleting things from their user/library folder and its crushing the call centers at 1-800-myapple.

Of Verona

So I discovered my new favorite band "Of Verona" at a new music festival in Los Angeles (thx @DJMIA).  I have seen them 3 times now in LA and I plan on seeing them again very soon.  They are giving away their EP starting today.  It is really worth a listen and seeing them live.  They are playing at the Viper Room in LA for CHEAP.

Upcoming Shows
 
Sunset Strip Music Festival West Hollywood, CA Fri Aug 19 11 06:30 PM  
The Viper Room West Hollywood, CA Sun Sep 04 11 08:00 PM  
The Viper Room West Hollywood, CA Sun Sep 11 11 08:00 PM  

Check it out, from the press release.

"Our debut EP, Fall Like Roses, is being released today and  for a limited time... it's FREE.  Just go to our Facebook orReverbnation page to download a copy."

Enjoy!