Air Sharing
By Avatron Software, Inc.
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Description
The easiest way to view your documents on the go.
Now upgradable to Pro features with an in-app purchase!
FEEDBACK
"Wish you could copy that new proposal to your iPhone and review it on the plane? Now you can." — Apple Inc.
"A dream come true for mobile workers and productivity gurus" — Macworld
"Most Useful App" — 2008 Best App Ever Awards
"Editor's Choice" — PC Magazine
"App of the Week" — Apple Inc.
"It's so easy to use" — Chicago Tribune
"Our favorite file storage app" — Gizmodo
"A fantastic file storage app" — iPhone Alley
"Editor's Pick... Score: 10/10" — AppCraver
INTRODUCTION
With Air Sharing, you can:
- Mount your iPhone or iPod touch as a Wi-Fi drive on your computer (Mac, Windows, or Linux) or connect from your computer's web browser.
- Drag-drop files between your iPhone or iPod touch and your computers.
- View and email documents in many common formats.
- Send email attachments
FEATURES
Upgradeable with in-app purchase to Air Sharing Pro features:
- Connect to your computer (on Windows, requires free desktop app)
- Mount remote file servers (MobileMe iDisk, WebDAV, FTP, FTPS, and SSH/SFTP)
- Custom bookmarks
- PDF table of contents, page thumbnails
- Download files from the web
- Get and Save Photo Library images
- File operations (Copy, Paste, Move, Rename, New Folder)
- Zip and Unzip
- Search by File name
- Playlist interface for audio files
- Print (via printers shared by Mac OS X 10.5+ or Linux)
Ease of use
- Familiar Finder-like file browser
- Use of Bonjour and WebDAV (just like iDisk) for easy connection
- Extensive in-line Help with detailed, simple instructions
Advanced image viewer
- Stable, high-quality viewing of very high-resolution image files
- Configurable image slideshow
- Swipe to previous or next image
Advanced PDF viewer
- Support for large or complex PDF documents
- Go To Page
Fast access
- Scrollbar in document viewer
- A folder popup for going back to previously viewed folders
- Automatic jump to last viewed location when opening a document
Security
- Optional password protection of remote access
- Public folder for guest access
- Local passcode lock for app security
Compatibility
- Mac OS X (Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard)
- Windows (XP, Vista, 7)
- Linux (GNOME and KDE)
- Any web browser
- Computer-to-iPhone connection requires Wi-Fi network
VIEWABLE FORMATS
- iWork (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote)
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), subject to iPhone compatibility
- Web Archive (web pages downloaded by Safari)
- HTML web page
- PDF
- Adobe Illustrator, saved with as PDF Compatible (NEW!)
- RTF (Rich Text Format)
- RTFD (TextEdit documents with embedded images)
- Plain text (many different file extensions), with automatic character-encoding recognition
- Source code (C/C++, Objective C/C++, C#, Java, Javascript, XML, shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python, Lua, and more), with color-coded formatting
- Movies, Audio, and Images (standard iPhone formats)
SUPPORT
Got questions? Please visit our support forum at www.avatron.com/support. We cannot reply in the App Store.
What's New In Version 2.3
After upgrading to Pro functionality with in-app purchase, now you can connect to a Dropbox server.
Customer Reviews
Good, but not quite there
Air Sharing is (at this time, at least), superior to its competitors FileMagnet and Stanza. It doesn't require a server-side application to transfer files to the handheld device, and its PDF reader supports implicit bookmarking. That means you can read a long PDF document, quit, and when you come back to it, still be at the same page. All PDF formatting (italics, page breaks, bolding, etc.) is preserved (which is a feature the makers of Stanza consider unnecessary), so Air Sharing is the clear winner there, too.
But as a document reader, it still suffers from too many of the drawbacks of similar utilities. The reader screen is surrounded by wholly unnecessary gray borders that cut into the already-minimal iTouch/iPhone viewing area. There's the gray wireless/time/battery bar at the top, reducing screen area still further. And at the bottom, there's the biggest gray bar of all, holding two pretty much useless "up" and "down" arrows. The iTouch/iPhone photo viewer makes use of the entire screen, so there's no reason a document viewer can't do the same thing. Worst of all, each time you scroll up or down, a big gray "<nn> of <nnnn>" page-number display obscures about one-eighth of the top left of the screen. Okay, it goes away after a couple of seconds, but it's very annoying, not needed, and you can't turn it off.
Scrolling is up-and-down only; the more natural right-to-left page-style scrolling isn't supported, even as an option.
There's no way to jump to a specific page, either. The only way to get to a given page is to scroll there, one. Page. At. A. Time. Not a big deal for a small document, but if you're reading a long PDF ebook or magazine, it gets very tedious, very fast.
Air Sharing gets full marks for its innovative and effective way of transferring files to the handheld device without special serverside software. But as a reader of the transferred documents, it still needs:
1: Explicit bookmarking, so the user can manually choose which page will be bookmarked. Multiple bookmarks would be nice, too.
2: Full-screen viewing, without borders, bars or page-number displays cutting into the viewing area. Again, the iTouch/iPhone photo viewer can do this, and it's even more important for document reading.
3: An option for horizontal scrolling.
Of the three file-transfer and document-viewing utilities I've mentioned, Air Sharing is the clear winner. But until the features I've outlined above are added, I can only give this utility three stars. Avatron has come up with a great method for transferring files, and now they need to put equal effort into the interface for viewing them. That would make Air Sharing a truly five-star program.
So Far a Great App!!!
I have been in need of a files app and have been in the process of reading reviews of all the File app's out there and this came up today and I love it more than the rest!
PROS:
- Has very detail directions on how to use it!
- Looks to have the most foramts supported
- No lag on large documents.
- FREE at least for the first two weeks!
- Can navigate file menu easily !!!!!
- Easily transer documents!
- Password Protect
- Options to show hidden files
-THE LIST GOES ON....
CONS:
- I just bought Folders app (greatly disapointed with folders app) but this app should have come sooner!!!!!! (will not mark off any stars for this)
Very nice start!
I have downloaded the following types of files with the following degrees of success:
Microsoft Word files show up beautifully and pretty much retain their formatting. Also lovely in landscape (uses the accelerometer).
PDF files: gorgeous. You can pinch and spread to read those tiny letters in landscape.
Microsoft excel: very nice. of course you have to use the landscape orientation to see a lot of it, and also the pinch spread to see smaller numbers and cells.
Powerpoint: a big file (672 KB) is slow to open up. Seems to need to work very hard to get that thing posted. But once its there, it renders just beautifully.
Keynote: The keynote file, for some reason, only displays the first page with a red banner in the corner that reads "thumbnail". I am still investigating to see what may be happening, but the original is the full presentation, not the alias or anything. So this may be an issue for wiser heads than mine.
Overall this is a spectacular idea! The only thing that of course would be even better, is that you could actually edit the documents once you got them on the phone! Of course that would be "paid" functionality.
One thought, though, the up and down arrows should advance the document one page at a time by the page break. RIght now it only goes about 3/4 down. I can use a finger stroke to get to specific lines, but the up and down arrows seem to scream for a "page by page" function.
Other than that, BRAVO!!!!!
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$2.99
- Category: Productivity
- Updated:Jun 14, 2010
- Current Version:2.3
- 2.3
- 11.9 MB
- Languages:English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- Seller:Avatron Software, Inc.
- © 2010 Avatron Software, Inc.
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
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