Free iPhone app: Air Sharing
by Dave Howell
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Sep 11, 2008 at 6:51:53 am
Sorry for the shameless plug. But I thought this might be of interest to folks here.
My company, Avatron Software, has recently gotten its first iPhone app, called Air Sharing, onto the App Store. Air Sharing lets you mount your iPhone like a portable hard drive. It also lets you view documents that you store on your iPhone. And it's doing great, at least so far. Air Sharing is the #1 app in the iPhone store today.
I am posting this for two reasons:
First, I want to invite people to download Air Sharing for free. We're going to charge $6.99 for it, but for first two weeks (starting Monday Sept 8) it is free. And I think you'll find it useful.
Second, and more importantly, I'm really interested in what kinds of features the professional community would like to see in an app that lets you view documents when you're on the go. We view a whole lot of document types, but you guys use all kinds of obscure apps, and probably use at least one that uses a file format that we don't support. Whatever these formats are, we want to know about them. EDLs? Scripts?
Re: Free iPhone app: Air Sharing by Adam Boden on Sep 12, 2008 at 11:23:43 pm
thanks so much for the heads up on this. i had downloaded it yesterday, but i'll be sure to spread the word about the limited time offer.
great, functional program.
Re: Free iPhone app: Air Sharing by David Roth Weiss on Sep 14, 2008 at 8:17:57 pm
Dave,
I've installed Air Sharing, and it works really, really well. However, now I'm a bit confused about what to with it.
Okay, so now I have a Public folder and a Samples folder, what am I gonna do with them? I can use them kind of like a thumb drive, but what else? Can you give me some ideas please?
THNX,
David
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Re: Free iPhone app: Air Sharing by Dave Howell on Sep 16, 2008 at 7:16:56 am
David,
Everybody's use of Air Sharing is different, but most are related to viewing your documents when you are on the go. Here are some examples of personal documents that a few actual people I have met keep in Air Sharing:
An airline pilot's flight schedule. A law-school student's course schedule and class notes. A photographer's entire portfolio web site. A teacher's lesson plan. An car enthusiast's car repair manuals. A comic book fan's comic PDFs. An IT guy's installers and configuration files. A business traveler's itinerary.
I think the portfolio example is interesting. This guy has a 500 MB portfolio on his iPhone, which he can view either from the iPhone itself or from any computer that has Wi-Fi (or is on a Wi-Fi network).
