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Hello everyone and thank you for tuning in the Inside Geek Canada. My name is Evan Thies. In today’s iPhone feature and we are taking to look an application that I installed, maybe ten minutes ago, but I thought it was really cool, so I wanted to give it a bit of a talk about it.
That application is called Air Sharing. Now, right now it is free and that is only for the next two weeks, according to the itunes description. As of now basically, so if you seeing this video, there is a good chance you already missed the ability to get it free, but it is a 699 application in the store after these two weeks.
I will show you basically allows when you see your documents on your iPhone or iPod touch from your Mac, from your Windows machine, from Linux, or even from a web browser. So, I am just going to do a rundown of the basic features that I have seen so far that I really like and we will just take a look at it.
Okay, so run the main menu here. Let us just go ahead and launch air sharing, just click it there it will launch it. Now, this is basically the main menu of the files. But, first I wanted to go through with some of the set-up documentations there, which is quite well done. So, if you go to the question mark here. This is basically the set-up page, first you just have the basic, they explain the tabs where you can go through, if you click next, you will get some of the settings. First, you can actually have the password protected, so no one else can access your files. You are going to adjust the folder view options, so you can show extensions or even show invisible file, which is really quite interesting. And then, you have sleep control. So, that is about it for that one. Let us do the next panel here.
This is where of the bulk of the instructions comes from and this is how to set it up on a variety of operating systems. It includes right now Mac OS10, Windows, Linux and using it from a web browser. The instructions are really easily laid out, less than a minute in Mac OS10, but I assume on the others it would be just as easy you can go with the panels here; it has suggestions on how to set this all up. The browser is actually really cool, because you can just type it in your web browser and see the files that are being shared and it is quick easy way, if you want to access the files. And, it shows you how to do it the safari and some stuff like these.
The next tab is viewing. Now, viewing basically just tells you all the different ways that you can go ahead and take a look at the files that you have in your iPhone. And, now it talks about the supported file formats. Now, I have to say that this is one of the greatest features of this application is that it supports a ton of different formats. Now, this can include everything from work documents to mixed up office documents to HTML to image documents to audio documents to video files, whatever you basically want to put and view on your iPhone, you pretty much can with this application, which is what makes it unique and why I really wanted to try that one.
So, after this you can just click done and this will bring you back to the main air sharing application. Now, let assumed we already set it up, which I have and I configured it with my Mac. I took five files from my Mac and I put them in a folder, called demo files and I put them in the shared folder for the serve for the iPhone. And, let us just go ahead and take a look at them here. So, if you got a demo files, you will see that I have five files here that have variety of formats to take a look at. The first one is just an example blog post that I wrote up, so if I just click this. This is a doc x files or Microsoft document file and you can see all the text falls right nice in here. Now, you cannot edit this, but if you need to view the information fast there is no better way to do this. So, you can just scroll around and do that. Next file is actually is a video file and it is in the iPod format. It is ac
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