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Posted on September 15, 2008 - by brian hamm

Air Sharing - File Sharing For Your iPhone

If you have an iPhone (or iPod Touch) with 2.0 firmware, and wish you could use some of your iPhone’s free space to store a few documents.. consider your wish granted. Air Sharing, from Avatron Software, is an application you install on your iPhone (or Touch) and turns it into a WebDAV server. If you don’t know what that means, I’ll give it to you in english. Your iPhone is now a wireless flash drive :)

From your Mac, PC or Linux box, you connect to your iPhone the same way you connect to a file server. For Mac users, this is the Finder’s ‘Connect to Server’ under the Go menu. Enter your iPhone’s IP or Bonjour (network friendly) name and your iPhone will appear in the Finder’s sidebar, along with any other devices on your local net. The rest works just like you’d expect.. drag, drop, rename, open documents right on your phone.

Air Sharing supports documents from iWork, Microsoft Office, PDF, RTF, Plain text, Source code, Movies, Audio and Images. See the Avatron site for exactly which fomats are supported. An integrated help file will walk you through how to set up your Mac or PC to work with Air Sharing, and will explain all of the options.

Avatron is offering this fantastic utility for free until September 19, after which time it will cost you $6.99. You can get Air Sharing at the iTunes App Store.


Posted on August 30, 2008 - by brian hamm

BBEdit Reaches Version 9

Bare Bones Edit, affectionately known as BBEdit, has now arrived at version 9. The release notes are pretty long, as you might expect for a full point release. More about key features in a minute..

BBEdit has long been one of those products that make it a joy to build sites on a Mac. While I consider myself a fan, competing applications like Panic Software’s CODA have been quickly closing in on BBEdit, even exceeding it in areas like auto-completion, overall interface and price ($79 vs. $129). That said, Bare Bones Software has an extensive history and huge installed base.. a base who has practically grown up with the product. This full point update will go a long way toward keeping them happy.

Notable improvements:

  • Improved multi-file grouping into ‘Projects’
  • Better auto-completion and syntax coloring, to speed development
  • You can now work with/edit the search results without opening up another window
  • Application preferences and ‘Application Support’ folder can be synced over .Mac/MobileMe
  • New Scratchpad allowing quick edits and batch copy/paste prior to inserting code into your document
  • Improved autosave (every minute)
  • VM Ware ‘Fusion’ users can now preview pages in Windows versions of Firefox, Opera, Safari and IE

Upgrading to BBEdit 9 from any prior commercial version is $30. If you bought BBEdit after Jan 1, 2008 your upgrade looks like it will be free.


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