As I understand there aren't any public APIs available or any 'legal'/'official' way of accessing those...
I was just wondering how come some Desktop apps (MissingSync, iPhoneDrive) have access to those then...
UPDATE: I found that Desktop App still shows the most updated info from iPhone device, without having to sync/back-up the device to desktop. Which makes me conclude that the Desktop app must be fetching info directly from the device and NOT from the back-up residing on Desktop (Windows PC: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
) Pls. correct me if am missing something here..)