Turn your iPhone and iPod touch into a wireless drive and file viewer with DataCase!
Usage instructions and How To videos are available at www.veiosoft.com
Drag and Drop:
DataCase works directly with Finder and Bonjour to make savingfiles to your iPhone easy. Start DataCase and your Mac already knowsthat it's there. Drag and drop files just like it was another harddrive.
Mac or PC:
DataCase works with any computer that has wireless capabilities oris connected to a wireless network. Browse, view, upload, and downloadyour files from finder on a Mac using AFP or from windows explorer on aPC. You can even save files to your iPhone or iPod Touch using industrystandard FTP. No external applications necessary.
Security:
DataCase allows you to create multiple volumes to separate yourdata any way you like. Each volume is independent and allows you todefine how it can be accessed. You can set read, write, and browsepermissions for each, or even make it invisible to anyone but you.Volumes can also be set up to alert you before allowing a connectionover the network.
View your files:
No computer available? Why not view your files on your iPhone!DataCase makes it easy to view your Documents. Page up and down, orjump to the top or bottom. DataCase even remembers where you last leftoff in a document so you don't have to scroll back to where you were tocontinue reading.
Supported file types include:
- Microsoft Office (doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx)
- PDF
- Text
- Images
- Html
- Audio
- Video
Please note that Audio and Video playback is limited to formats that are supported by the iPhone OS.
Internationalized:
DataCase is localized for English, French, German, and Chinese, with more on the way!
Note: OSX 10.4 users, please check our faq for potential AFP compatibility issues.
Turn your iPhone and iPod touch into a wireless drive and file viewer
Because the iPhone restricts data access via the USB, access between the iPhone and your computer is enabled through a wireless connection (so for those without a wireless router, you’re out of luck). Turn on the wifi on the iPhone, and Datacase will provide you with the IP addresses (FTP and HTTP) to access Datacase. For Windows users, simple go to Windows Explorer and enter the FTP address and you can access the drive just like any other drive on your computer. Uploads are pretty fast - a reminder that the bottleneck with WIFI Internet is the Internet and ISPs and not WIFI.
Once files are loaded into Datacase, it claims you are able to open web pages, media, PDF, and office pages. This is where I ran into problems. For my test, I loaded two mp3s, a PDF document, a word document, excel, and powerpoint document. The PDF opened without issues, nor did my excel (screenshot above) or powerpoint doc. Datacase was also able to view my word document, but it was very slow. For a 7-page document, it took approximately 20 seconds to load. Worse, I couldn’t get any of my mp3s to play - I kept getting an iTunes error “cannot open this movie file”. I’ll email the developer on this and see if we can get a resolution on this, but I am not too bothered since I would want to access these files via the iPod function anyways.
I hope the developer adds more functions to the app itself with latter releases. Other than opening and deleting files, there’s really not much you can do. You can create subfolders within the app, but you can’t move files between folders. I found myself not really using the app interface, but rather managing my files using Windows Explorer.
Summary
Although the feature set of this app isn’t as great as I had anticipated, for what I really use it for (storing and moving files), it seems to do it with pretty good speed and stability. Hopefully the next version will come with more features that will make this one truly stand out against the rest.
Version Reviewed: 1.0