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Air Sharing and DataCase are the two Apps I have to store and view files on an iPhone/iPod Touch. They both work good but have different strong and weak points.
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Let's take a look:
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Air Sharing (iTunes Link)
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DataCase (iTunes Link)
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| Publisher |
Avatron Software, Inc. |
Veiosoft, LLC |
| Current Version |
1.0.0 |
1.1.1 |
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Price
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US$ 6.99
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US$ 6.99
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| Network protocols |
http, WebDAV |
afp, ftp, http |
| How to connect to a Mac for read/write access |
Use the function connect to server and enter the URL Air Sharing displays, e.g.: http://192.168.0.10:8080.
You need to enter username and password now.
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Appears automatically as a computer under Shared in the Finder.
You might need to “allow” this connection on the iPhone/iPod Touch.
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| How to connect to Windows for read/write access |
Open the Windows Explorer (not the Internet Explorer) or “My computer” and enter the URL Air Sharing displays, e.g.: http://192.168.0.10:8080 in the address line.
You need to enter username and password now.
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Open the Windows Explorer (not the Internet Explorer) or “My computer” and enter the URL DataCase displays, e.g.: ftp://192.168.0.10:8080 in the address line.
You might need to “allow” this connection on the iPhone/iPod Touch.
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| Viewing/downloading files |
Use any webbrowser and enter the URL Air Sharing displays, e.g.: http://192.168.0.10:808.
You need to enter username/password.
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Use any webbrowser and enter the URL DataCase displays, e.g.: http://192.168.0.10:808.
You might need to allow this connection on the iPhone/iPod Touch
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| Viewable filetypes |
- Here the list from their website, I haven't tried them all:
- iWork (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote), full resolution if saved with preview
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), with limited support for XML formats
- Web Archive (web-page downloads packaged by Safari)
- Web page
- PDF
- HTML
- RTF (Rich Text Format)
- RTFD (TextEdit documents with embedded images)
- Plain text (many different file extensions), with Unicode support
- Source code (C/C++, Objective C/C++, C#, Java, Javascript, XML, shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python, and more), with color-coded formatting
- Movie (standard iPhone formats: H.264, MPEG-4, 3GPP, etc.)
- Audio (standard iPhone formats: MP3 VBR, AAC, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, CAF, etc.)
- Image (standard iPhone formats: GIF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, etc.)
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They have no list on their website, but you check the iTunes store, i.e.the usual filetypes the iPhone/iPod Touch support.
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| Resume reading |
Saves where you left the document and automacilly goes there, when you open the same document again. |
Saves where you left the document and automacilly goes there, when you open the same document again.
Bookmarks: You can have several named bookmarks for one document
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| Missing features |
Can't hide taskbar etc
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Doubletap doesn't return to a full width view (like Safari). Doesn't sound bad, but for me most annoying.
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Both Apps work very well and I hardly noticed any crashes, file copying has about the same speed.
DataCase connects easier to a Mac, because it supports AFP, but overall Air Sharing has the advantage at the moment. Especially with this special introductory price: FREE. But it's even worth paying US$ 6.99 for this.
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