What did you do this weekend? Oh yah. Cool. Well, I found the coolest iPhone/Touch app ever. Swear to God.
WiFi HD uses your wireless network to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into an external hard drive. This came in handy when I realized I had a video on my MacBook I wanted to watch on the big screen via the Mac Mini connected to my flat screen.
I didn't want to wait for Quicktime to convert my video to an iTunes friendly file that could then be shared between my two computers' iTunes apps, and I didn't have a USB dongle that had enough storage space to save the file and move it to the mini, so I decided to try out WiFi HD...
The app comes in two flavors -- free, which has ads on the bottom on your iPhone/Touch screen and a $2 version that gets rid of those ads.
It works like this:
- Turn on WiFi HD on your iPhone/Touch
- Plug in the url given on the bottom of your screen into a web browser on the computer your file is store on.
- Via the webpage, you can upload the desired file, which will soon show up on your iPhone/Touch. You can't open the file, it's simply housed there. It took just a few minutes to transfer a 236 MB file
I then plugged in the url into the web browser on my Mac Mini (the computer I wanted the file to be moved to) found the file, and right-click saved it onto my desktop. It only took a minute or two to download. Seriously, a lifesaver!
More iPhone Apps for the Home
The original/first/better App for this purpose is called "Air Sharing" (free) with its pendant "Air Sharing Pro" which adds Printing and simple ZIP support (pack, unpack).
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Air Sharing is no longer free. The base verision costs $5 and pro is $10. If you want free, this is the way to go for basic file sharing between a PC and iphone.
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I use "Files Lite" which works like a charm and is free
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