Mac Hard Drive Failure - How to get all info of iphone?

The computer that I sync my iphone to had a complete system drive failure. The drive is toast, nothing recoverable. There is lots of information that I have on my iphone that I now only have on my iphone: mail, contacts, notes, pictures. I want to keep all of this information, but I haven't been able to find a way to get it off the iphone.
If I sync to the fresh OSX install on the computer that failed, or one of my other macs, the iphone gets wiped squeaky clean. I obviously don't want this to occur. Does anyone know a way to create an iphone backup on a computer other than the one the iphone is set to sync to, or is there a way to access the iphone as a disk and copy the information?
Any help would be appreciated.
And yes, I have learned the "backup frequently" lesson.

This is one reason why maintaining a backup is so important. The iPhone does not support disk mode, and is not designed nor intended to be a backup storage device.
If I sync to the fresh OSX install on the computer that failed, or one of my other macs, the iphone gets wiped squeaky clean.
Not true. In regards to iTunes content, an iPhone can be synced or manually managed with an iTunes library on a single computer only, and photos can be transferred from a single computer only. When transferring iTunes content and photos from another computer, all iTunes content and photos transferred from a different computer will be erased from the iPhone first, but no other content on the iPhone will be touched. Contacts, calendar events, and Safari bookmarks can be synced with the supports applications on multiple computers.
iTunes includes an option to transfer iTunes content that was purchased or downloaded from the iTunes store from an iPod or iPhone, but this is for iTunes content that was purchase or downloaded from the iTunes store only.
With your iPhone connected to iTunes on the Mac you plan on using to sync your iPhone with, first you need to authorize the Mac with your iTunes account with iTunes if your haven't already done so. Without syncing, at the iTunes menu bar go to File and select Transfer Purchases From - the name of your iPhone. If all 3rd party apps do not transfer, you can re-download a 3rd party app with iTunes on the Mac and you won't be charged again for a purchased app as long as you use the same iTunes account to re-download the app that was used to purchase the app originally.
Photos transferred to an iPhone is a one way transfer process only. Photos transferred to an iPhone are optimize for viewing on the iPhone as part of the iTunes sync/transfer process only - the original resolution of these photos is reduced, which is why Apple doesn't transferring these photos in the opposite direction, and why including these photos with your computer's backup is important.
There are some 3rd party apps that support transferring these photos in the opposite direction and if successful, the original resolution of these photos will be lost.
Before syncing contacts with the Address Book and calendar events with iCal on this Mac if there are no contacts in the Address Book and no calendar events in iCal - both are empty, enter one contact in the Address Book and one calendar event in iCal - make these up if needed, which can be deleted later. This will provide a merge prompt when syncing this data, which you want to select.
Backup, backup, bakcup backup, backup, backup.
Did I mention maintaining a backup?

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