One of the more commonly reported complaints about the iPhone’s SMS scheme is the text message storage limit. While the iPhone offers a significant amount of free memory, the number of text messages that can be stored is capped at 1000. This cap, of course, prompts the iPhone’s friendly reminder: “Your SMS mailbox is almost full. Please delete some messages.”

To combat this dearth of text storage space, software developer Vaughn Cordero has developed the “MobileSyncBrowser,” a Mac OS X tool that allows you to view the backups of SMS text messages and optionally export them. This utility enables you to delete messages from your phone while keeping them archived on your computer. MobileSyncBrowser can also backup notes and call history every time you sync.