- - - It occurred to me recently that I have installed almost 600 applications on my MacBook Pro. Many of them were given to me to review, and quite a few of them were free. As I was going through the list in order to decide what I wanted to load onto my new iPad 3G, I realized that it would not be too cool if I were to lose all of these little beauties. What happens if my computer crashes and I lose all this data? Apple doesn't make it easy to restore all of these apps - you have to remember what ones you had.