Abstract
Avatron Air Sharing allows copying files from and to the iPhone wireless, thus allowing to use the iPhone similar to a portable harddrive. The only condition is to use a WebDAV compatible up- and download program (find a list below the picture).
Supported File Formats
Air Sharing also allows to preview files on the iPhone itself. It supports the following formats as previews:
- iWork (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote), full resolution if saved with preview
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), with limited support for XML formats
- Web Archive (web-page downloads packaged by Safari)
- Web page
- HTML
- RTF (Rich Text Format)
- RTFD (TextEdit documents with embedded images)
- Plain text (many different file extensions), with Unicode support
- Source code (C/C++, Objective C/C++, C#, Java, Javascript, XML, shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python, and more), with color-coded formatting
- Movie (standard iPhone formats: H.264, MPEG-4, 3GPP, etc.)
- Audio (standard iPhone formats: MP3 VBR, AAC, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, CAF, etc.)
- Image (standard iPhone formats: GIF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, etc.)
Prices and Availability
The software is available for free in the introduction phase. After 22nd of September, 2008 it will cost 6.99US$. So hurry up, guys :-)
WebDAV programs
Windows:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Novell NetDrive
- SouthRiver WebDrive
Linux:
- DAV Explorer
- Konqueror
- davfs2
- cadaver
MacOS X
- integrated Apple Finder (CMD+K)