How do i recover my music and apps!!!

i just got a imac and i plugged my iphone 4 in and i have the music in my phone but my apps arent in my computer and they wont open on my phone how do i recover my lost apps without paying for them again? PLEASE HELP!

If you've used your phone as intended, your contacts have been synched with a cloud service or an app on your computer for safe keeping.  You can synch them back.  In addition, photos taken with the iPhone would have been imported onto your computer for archival and safe keeping.  You can synch them back.  Apps and purchased music, if not already in iTunes on your computer for resynching, can be re-downloaded.
Any phone, not just the iPhone has NEVER been intended to be a storage of data, as it can easily be lost, stolen, dropped and damaged.  It's meant to be an extenion of your computer that you can take with you.  Apple realizes this and provides many ways for the user to protect his or her data.  If you, the user, failed to take advantage of this, well, you've learned a hard lesson.  Reading the User Guide is always a good thing to do.
Best,
GDG

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