I love my iPhone and I love how well iTunes synchronizes my iCal, Address Book, and iPod content. Coming from ten years of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile (originally called Palm-sized PC until Palm put the heavy on Redmond), and through various versions of ActiveSync, I did miss one thing. That thing was having the most updated information on my PDA and then phone. Like Palm’s sync utility, HotSync, one has to manually force fresh content to be placed on ones iPhone. This has bugged me from the beginning, but I’ve held out hope for Apple to correct this. Well, seeing how I still don’t have Cut-n-Paste, Voice Activation, and MMS, all basics other phones have, I’ve given up on automatic syncs. Thankfully, someone else carried my same desires and answered them.

Stand Alone, Inc, has long been a developer for Palm software, most notably it’s well known address book enhancer Super Names and now it’s dabbling in Mac software. Its first step? iPhone AutoSync.

iPhone AutoSync installs a new preference into your System Preferences and allows you to disable or enable this excellent application that simply keeps your iPhone current. Listening to Safari (bookmarks), Address Book, and iCal, iPhone AutoSync will wait for about a minute after sensing a change and then force iTunes to sync your phone. At first I thought a minute was too long but found myself making a change to an Address Book entry and then going back to it seconds later and removing the change. Because of iPhone AutoSync’s patience, my iPhone wasn’t tied up with unnecessary syncs. Brilliant!

In the week of using iPhone AutoSync, I’ve already come to take advantage of it. I now know that I will have the most current information on my phone, as long as it’s on the dock, when I ever I make a change on my Mac. My only wish is for stand alone, inc to make some kind of Exchange Server Direct-Push application now. Then I’ll have the only two things I miss from my Windows Mobile device!