Pogoplug iPhone app makes its way into the world
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Apr 17th 2009 8:12PM
posted Apr 17th 2009 8:12PM
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Didn't Air Sharing do this first? I've been using my iPhone as a wireless hard drive forever with that application... (and it's always been free as well)
I just realized this is for a specific other networked hard drive. Ignore my comment. Why can't we delete comments?
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Haha, True.
Or you could think before you type ;)
What's the point when the iPhone itself lacks a User Accessible File System
AirShare gives the iPhone a user accessible file system
Aqua.
No it does not.
I've used AirShare, and it is NOT the same thing as a user accessible file system, as in a Windows Explorer or File Explorer type of application.
Not by any stretch of the imagination.
It's limited in terms of what types of files you are allowed to view, it's limited in terms of how to access those files (web browser/wi-fi access is a pre-req if im not mistaken) and it doesn't even let you get deep into the actual iPhone file system itself.
AirShare is NOT the same as a user accessible file system a la Windows Explorer for example.
There are dozens of applications that allow you to access public parts of the filesystem.
Steveo,
Name 1, just 1, that does exactly what Windows Explorer does.
Just 1.
- Agreed that airshare is not a user accessible filesystem
- Odd u mention the inability to access/display -all- filetypes as no system/application can claim that out of the box. Though if u are savvy enough u might find an installable reader for -said- filetype
- If you yourself are so savvy that you -need- access to every filetype and every file in an OS then you probably have an iPhone and jail broke it and have a unix shell or even Linux on it accessing -everything- cause at least with an iPhone u can do that and access everything and -every- filetype (though I doubt it can really load up a mathematica file or a maya scene or heck a realmedia file which will be the same for EVERY phone and EVERY OS without the appropriate seperate and closed application running)
So your rant is.... pointless and makes u seem clueless
Well for starters there is Discovery Wi Fi, but WinMo hackers want access to the UNIX root file system, something that they don't understand is protected from users for security and Apple's intellectual property rights which is why this is reservved for lic developers.
Other products like disk aid allow access to the public folders and even root for the jail broken devices.
Hello, I'm here to threadcrap all over this iPhone thread, since you mindless iPhone fanboy drones can't seem to resist doing the same on all the other phone threads...
iPhone sucks.
There. have fun.
troll detected.
@CleverEndeavor
YOU HAVE A TROLL DETECTOR! Did you get it on Ebay? Where can I buy one?
@Mitch
It comes free with a brain.
How many accounts does that clown Hamidxa have?
one for every year his mother breast fed him... many, many accounts.
What we need now is a ".pron" file extension...
...ill have that house exterior to go please
Yeah, I wonder if the house exterior actually LOOKS like a beach scene or if that is a file naming error in the software, haha.
Sorry to steer slightly off subject but it looks like I found some file sharing experts for the iPhone. Looking for an application where I can save and organize .pdf's onto our network and then make them accessible quickly and easily from outside the network from the iPhone. I have tried a few web server/host (8080) type apps from the app store, but nothing met our needs. Any thoughts.
Wish the app store made it easier to search and find what you were looking for! Cheers...
I don't get it? This is news why?
Here's an idea use something like Video Safe to hide all your iPhone PRON. Now that's a file viewing App !!
There are a bunch of apps for that already as well... People w/out iPhone's just assume that the App Store is all hype, but if anything it is under appreciated. It took them about a month to top the number of apps available for WinMo, and that definitely says something.
Oh look, it's a pointless post about a pointless app for the iPhone. I guess engadget's trying to fill it's quota.
You realize this has a hardware component which we reviewed, right?
Well, now I do, but I'm not going to admit it until engadget admits it's biased towards fruit named computer manufacturers.
Just because.
I forgot about airshare which is good too.
I like FileMagnet better, but I use both. FileMagnet has a scroll bar for big documents, like books. I've already read a few books on mine, it's very good.
i used to use datacase...not really sure how it stacks up compared to these other ones
Does this only work with Pogoplug devices, or any NAS? Is there an equivalent for accessing any NAS, other than using Safari?
Check out One Disk from the app store. It allows webdav access to any external data store, includes a doc reader for almost all file formats, ands allows local store on the iPhone into folders. I use it to access a 10k PDF db when I'm travelling and I typically have a few hundred Docs stored locally on the iphone.
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