How to delete 'other' from iPhone 4

Lately I've noticed the 'other' portion of memory on my iPhone is taking up more and more room, by more room, I mean about 1 GB. I've cleared the browser cache and history for my web browsers but that didn't seem to do much. Is there an app out there or some process in iTunes I can run that will clean this up back down to a more reasonable level?
Also, what exactly goes in to the 'other' folder?

http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5142
1GB to 2GB of other is normal size, anything over that would be considered corrupted files.
Note you can't completely delete others.

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