I was recently approached by a friend in need of a USB flash drive storage solution which didn’t require carrying additional hardware. Crazy I know considering the size of some of the USB devices available today.
I knew my friend was an Apple fan much like myself, so the most obvious choice was to use his iPhone as a storage device.
Now – out of the box this isn’t normally possible, with most file storage being controlled by iTunes.
However, along with help from Macroplant’s iPhone explorer this is easily done. iPhone Explorer is a tiny little application available for both Mac OS X and Windows, enabling full ‘drag-drop’ functionality to the iPhone’s storage card.
Although this offers a perfect solution for a user with access to the App on each PC, don’t be fooled into thinking this could be used to ‘rip’ all your friends music off their device. For that you would need either Pod to PC or Pod to Mac.
Using iPhone Explorer you get to see all the files stored deep down in the depth’s of the iPhone…You know, all those one’s normal users shouldn’t go near! Not only can you use your device as a USB Pen Drive, you can also view pictures and modify files directly on the iPhone.
Better still – if you should so wish to ‘jailbreak’ your device you will also gain access to your iPhones Address Book, SMS, e-mails and even more besides.
You can download iPhone Explorer for Macroplant’s website.
You may be pleased to know there’s now a much better method – click here
If you are a heavy user of your iPhone, and like to take advantage of your unlimited text message plan – then this app is for you.. Although I love my iPhone and quite frankly would be lost without it, sometimes it can be quite frustrating taking part in long winded text message conversations with several recipients.
Product Requirements:
- iPhone version requires iOS 4 or later
- Mac version requires OS X 10.6.4 or later
As a true fully fledged geek, I subscribe to more social networking sites then I own socks! Which often makes updating the status and posting blog messages a bit of a pain.. Until now, thanks to the service over at ping.fm I am now able to upload all of my profiles in one hit.
Although the site is still in BETA stage, I find it works perfectly and supports a massive collection of sites including custom url’s so you can even use it to update your own website! Check it out at www.ping.fm
