Enabling iPod Touch to be a storage device - optimal 3rd party application

The ONLY disappointment I have had with my beloved iPod Touch 32 is that it is the ONLY iPod not recognised by Windows or Mac OS as a storage device!!
In fact I only chose the 32GB version for that expected benefit - my dealer was shocked when I discovered this stupid limitation and offered to give me my money back!
I understand there are a couple of 3rd party applications that enable the Touch to be recognised as a storage device (to do daily file backups).
Has anyone had any experience with any of these apps? Which is optimal (simple, reliable and unlikely to cause software conflicts that mess up the reliability of the Touch?)
I am running firmware version 3.0 (happily).
Thanks for your time,
Simon.

It is ridiculous that the iPod Touch cannot mount as a device enabling use of free space for data storage. 3rd party apps are now addressing this limitation.

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No one seems to know the cause but there are many solutions offered to try. You will have to restore or do a full recovery depending on your situation. Again...lots of advice on how to do both in prior discussions.
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I've also read somewhere in these discussions that the larger mb apps could be at issue with the 2.0 and 2.0.1 updates and something to do with firmware updates? Sorry but I'm not real saavy with the technical side of it but i can tell you that between our two ipod touches we restored/recovered over 16 times from 8/04 to 8/10 because of crashes.
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They say you can have as many apps as you want on your itouch, so far i'm not testing that theory again...we're taking it slow and choose only what we really really want on our ipod...some say stay away from the gimmicky apps but we have a few on ours that are still working well, crazy lighter, iguide, itarot, campfire, magic8ball...so trust yourself and those that have provided info as well in previous discussions.
try to find the post from dbmandrake re workarounds for 2.0.1 app install crashes dated 8/9/08...it made sense and got me rolling again.

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i did the same thing as told above that my ipod is never sync with computer and i followed the same instructions so many times. but it doesn't work.
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Place the iOS device in Recovery Mode and then connect to your computer and restore via iTunes. The iPod will be erased.
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