If someone figures out what this does and how it works, please let me know. It grabs huge amounts of ram and creates a file, but now what?

Worked instantly for me, and is easily the best solution so far for those who need to sync files between the iPad and a Mac. I would like to be able to choose the sync folder on the Mac, but that may not be feasible, given the weird way you have to get files into iTunes.

The interface may have been "spectacular" in 1972, but today it is little more than a bad joke. This is pure OS9.

This may work for some, but here's my experience on an Intel iMac with 2G RAM:
1. With multiple programs running, including Safari with multiple tabs open, my system had about 25MB free RAM.
2. I ran iFreeMem, and suddenly had about 600MB free RAM. Quite a feat, I thought. Usually I have to quit Safari and other programs, then restart them to reclaim the huge amounts of memory they consume after a day or two of heavy use.
3. When I went to actually use Safari, switching from one tab to the next took 10-20 seconds (with the spinning beachball). Copying to iClip took longer than usual, and some items weren't copied at all. In short, the first time I used each application after running iFreeMem, it was incredibly slow.
4. After an hour or so or operation, my free memory is back down to 75MB, a little better than where I began, but nothing to write home about.

To summarize, iFreeMem appears to free up all the memory that applications use to speed up their operation. I can regain memory much more quickly by quitting and restarting my memory hog programs. There seems to be little if any benefit to running this program.

Unless I'm mistaken, the qt package, which is required, costs $1,700. Hardly a "free" app.