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How to Use SSH to Transfer File on iPhone

by Simon Ng on May 17, 2009

If you ask me the top reason for jailbreaking iPhone, the ability to use SSH to transfer files between iPhone and computer via WiFi is my answer. I believe it’s also one of the reasons why some of you go for the jailbreak. But, as I know, not all the readers are geeks and come [...]

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DiskAid: Transfer Files between iPhone & Computer via USB

by Simon Ng on December 18, 2008

Thanks for our reader Alan’s email. He reminded me to introduce DiskAid, that has been around for quite a while. DiskAid is a freeware that lets you transfer files between iPhone / iPod and computer and enables your iPhone as USB thumb drive.
I have introduced how you can transfer files wirelessly between computer and iPhone [...]

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Air Sharing Released v1.0.2 with new image viewer

by Simon Ng on October 17, 2008

Avatron Software has released an minor update (v1.0.2) for its well-known Air Sharing application. For those you may not heard of Air Sharing, the application allows iPhone users to view document, excel, powerpoint, PDF, images and other kinds of text files on iPhone. Air Sharing also developed a intuitive mechanism to let you transfer files [...]

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Air Sharing Updated to improve Windows Vista Connectivity

by Simon Ng on September 21, 2008

Air Sharing, the iPhone application that lets you copy & view documents on iPhone, has released a new version recently. The new version (v1.0.1) fixed a number of bugs and greatly improved Windows Vista connectivity with iPhone. Other features/bug fixes come with this version are:

Support for mapping a drive letter in Vista
Viewing of RTF, RTFD [...]

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Air Sharing – The Easiest Way to transfer & view Document on iPhone

by Simon Ng on September 15, 2008

One of the most demanding features on iPhone is to save document (e.g. Word, Excel, PDF, etc) on iPhone and view it on-the-go. I’m using a 8GB iPhone model. I always think of using it as a mobile harddisk that lets me carry & view my documents on-the-go. Even it comes to firmware 2.1, however, [...]

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iPhoneBrowser lets you copy files to/from iPhone on Windows

by Simon Ng on September 8, 2008

Previously, I talked about using Netatalk to let your Mac to communicate with iPhone wirelessly and transfer files using just drag & drop. On Windows, beside using SSH to transfer files, an alternative is to ride on iPhoneBrowser. This solution is less elegant than Netatalk solution on Mac. You still need to connect your iPhone [...]

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Netatalk lets you transfer files between iPhone and your Mac wirelessly

by Simon Ng on September 7, 2008

In my post about “Transfer ringtone to iPhone wirelessly using SSH“, I wrote about how you can use SSH to transfer ringtone file from your computer to iPhone through WiFi. User with certain technical background may find SSH useful. For general iPhone user, however, SSH may look weird. Recently, you can download Netatalk v2.0.3-4 on [...]

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View Doc/PDF locally on iPhone

by Simon Ng on July 20, 2008

Before continue to talk about my trip to Greece, I definitely need to share with you a way to read Microsoft Office Doc and Adobe PDF without WiFi / Edge / 3G connection. You know, iPhone comes with the ability to read Word/Excel and PDF, but only when the files are come from E-mail attachment [...]

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