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If you see or hear something you like in your iPhone or iPod Touch applications, then you can follow these relatively simple steps to obtain the desired content.

Open iTunes and switch to the Applications section of the sidebar. If this section isn't in the sidebar, go to iTunes preferences and click the checkbox for Applications in the General tab. Pick the app you want, Control-click on it, and select the convenient Show in Finder option from the pop-up menu.

I'm going to say this before the next step, just to emphasize it: Make a copy of the app you are going to work with! That way, if something goes wrong, you won't lose the original.

Control-click on the application in the Finder and choose Copy from the contextual menu. Switch to another folder and paste (Command-V) the copy. Once the copy is fully there (sometimes apps take a little while to copy), you'll need to decompress it. For this, you'll need ...

As I had a hard time figuring this out, this hint may be of help to other coming into the same situation...

I had a number of kernel panics due to a bad RAM stick. By the time I figured this out, my iTunes library file was damaged; iTunes built me a new one. However, when I plugged in my iPhone, it lost all the applications from the App Store, along with their data.

Restoring the applications was easy, as the files were still in ~/Music » iTunes » Mobile Applications. One just has to drag them into the iTunes window, with Applications selected from the sidebar. On the next iPhone sync, iTunes copied them onto the iPhone

However, all the application settings and data were still missing. The up-to-date backup was of no help. One has to resort to an older backup from Time Machine or another backup system. The procedure is as follows:

1. Disable automatic syncing in the iTunes preferences under Devices.
2. Replace ~/Library/Application Suppor...