Admittedly there's nothing quite as painful as watching our iPhone's carefully planned settings get messed up.

Now, if you're keen on ensuring that your phone is always tuned to your liking, you may want to take a look at this application by hc, dubbed TimeCapsule.

As its name implies, TimeCapsule will enable you to back up and restore the previous settings of certain apps on you iPhone or iPod Touch. At the moment, TimeCapsule version 0.13b4 is expected to back up the following applications:

• AddressBookÂ?s contacts
• Call History
• Calendar
• InstallerÂ?s sources (restore may not work due to permission problem in some firmwares, refer to FAQs for solution)
• MapÂ?s bookmarks & history
• MapÂ?s caches
• Notes
• SafariÂ?s bookmarks & history
• SMS
• TransitÂ?s Preferences
• Stocks
• VoiceMail
• Weather
• WorldClock
  

TimeCapsule has been rated for all the iPhone/iPod Touch firmwares. However, the SMS sync, SMS selective backup, and SMS contact-specific backup functions won't work on firmware 1.1.3 and above.

Those interested in picking up this download or reading up further on TimeCapsule's functions will want to visit its original release site via the source link below.