Apple iTunes is really handy application which not only allows you to upgrade your iPhone, iPod Touch, download apps, songs from apple store but also allows you to backup your iPhone to protect your data and can be restored only with iTunes in event of any issue.
iPhone OS Backup created with iTunes can only be restored with iTunes and you cannot modify this backup files, here is small free utility iPhone Backup Extractor which can help in decoding and extracting files from your iPhone OS.
iPhone Backup Extractor not only lets you extract iPhone OS backups created with iTunes, but also allows you to mess around with their contents just like you would on your iPhone and is compatible with latest apple iTunes 8.1. Using iPhone Backup Extractor you can also extract Call History, SMS messages and Notes from backup.
iPhone Backup Extractor converts the iPhone / iPod Touch backups that are created by iTunes into readily usable Mac OS X files.
You can only install and use iPhone backup extractor on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on both Intel and PowerPC users.
