A freaking high performance FTP server on a phone!

A developer has hit a home run with DataCase app for the iPhone or
iPod Touch. DataCase turns either of these into wireless standards-
compliant, stable, and reasonably high performance FTP servers which
work well with Windows Vista, XP, Linux and Mac.

http://www.veiosoft.com/

No extra client software is needed.

This means using Wifi, you can wireless carry a HD with you at all
times for file storage and transfer to any other computer. Any kind of
file or data can be moved. No more searching for free USB or Firewire
ports if you are stealing secret documents!

This beats having to carry around an easy to misplace thumb drive in
your pocket at all times.

Another advantage to the iPhone user is that standard windows office
documents (WORD EXCEL etc.) can be viewed on the iPhone after FTPing
them over to the file system.

If you do not have any spaces in the file name you can play MP3 and
MOV files that someone FTPs you using DataCase. Any student can store
and entire college course in PDF format and view the books from your
pocket using the iPhone or iPod Touch now.This opens up a whole new
realm for cheating on exams!


Documents can be viewed in either vertical or horizontal format. They
can be stretched or shrunk as needed.

Apple should have included this as a feature of the iPhone in the
first place but it is an inexpensive add on for $6 which is still
cheaper than a 8 ($20) or 16 GB ($50) thumb drive. No jailbreaking of
the iPhone or iPod is required.

The DataCase documentation is almost non existent so you must
understand how to FTP to a computer using Windows File Explorer. That
is a no brainer but a few windows users seem to have a problem doing
that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZLrR.../veiosoft.com/

Memory is the only limit so a 16 GB iPhone or 32 GB iPod Touch is far
more desirable now if you need to carry lots of data around.

DataCase also says it can stream video from the iPhone to a computer.



RIAA will soon be after the sneaker net for illegal music and video
sharing on college campuses. Then RIAA will get a court injunction to
have the iPhone banned in the USA as a threat to the entertainment
industry. Or they could go after Apple for making file sharing so
simple.


I am joking about the illegal uses but it seems that there is always
someone who abuses a good thing and then screws it up for the rest of
us.

4phun wrote:
> A developer has hit a home run with DataCase app for the iPhone or
> iPod Touch. DataCase turns either of these into wireless standards-
> compliant, stable, and reasonably high performance FTP servers which
> work well with Windows Vista, XP, Linux and Mac.


Guaranteed to endear it, er, ban it, in the enterprise market.

4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:39bdd66f-0fb2-422a-86e1-
a518fde7394e@i76g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

> A developer has hit a home run with DataCase app for the iPhone or
> iPod Touch. DataCase turns either of these into wireless standards-
> compliant, stable, and reasonably high performance FTP servers which
> work well with Windows Vista, XP, Linux and Mac.
>

Er, ah, you need to read the webpage a little better. There's no
Linux/Unix support, just Win and OSX. This is another WEB APP interface.
The files are stored on your Mac or PC and the web app lets you download
them to your iphone. The iPhone is the CLIENT, not the server. Safari may
do the same thing if it supports ftp://your IP here and you simply run an
FTP server on your PC like Cerberus FTP Server, which is freeware and a
fantastic server with its own virtual server drives.

I wonder if it will let the PC convert DivX movies to something the
FruitFone can run. That would work over wifi, but not ATT, to the delight
of ATT.

If this were server software, ATT lawyers would have it off the app store
in a day. They may still get it removed as they are fighting anything that
uses bandwidth like this, of course.

It's just another Web App client like FTP Commander, but with a built in
player. Here, use Safari on this:

http://corp.orb.com/

Orb'll even let you watch your cable TV. I've got guys in Iraq and
Afghanistan in the Air Force watching family videos and their own cable TV
channels over Orb to the Air Forces own laptops on the AF broadband
network. It's fantastic.....and is free!

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Once again, I ask you to stop broadcasting iPhone crap to the Verizon
newsgroup. Why do you persist in making them more angry?

News <News@Group.name> wrote in
news:QfqdnVMRZ4T9Tz_VnZ2dnUVZ_oDinZ2d@speakeasy.ne t:

>
>
> 4phun wrote:
>> A developer has hit a home run with DataCase app for the iPhone or
>> iPod Touch. DataCase turns either of these into wireless standards-
>> compliant, stable, and reasonably high performance FTP servers which
>> work well with Windows Vista, XP, Linux and Mac.
>
>
> Guaranteed to endear it, er, ban it, in the enterprise market.
>

Oh, that will make corporate IT departments heads swim. Even if they let
an iPhone with a CAMERA in the building...they'll never allow it with
client side software they can't control anywhere near the corporate
servers.

At 13 Aug 2008 13:44:28 +0000 Larry wrote:

> > A developer has hit a home run with DataCase app for the iPhone or
> > iPod Touch. DataCase turns either of these into wireless standards-
> > compliant, stable, and reasonably high performance FTP servers which
> > work well with Windows Vista, XP, Linux and Mac.
> >
>
> Er, ah, you need to read the webpage a little better. There's no
> Linux/Unix support, just Win and OSX.

It should work with any OS or terminal that supports ftp- in theory I could
access it from my WinMo phone or your N800 tablet. They only provided a
"walkthrough" for PC and Mac.

> This is another WEB APP interface.

Not really- the browser on the computer is for accessing the files on the
iPhone via ftp.

> The files are stored on your Mac or PC and the web app lets you download
> them to your iphone. The iPhone is the CLIENT, not the server.

No, you initiate the upload or download from the computer (but not the
iPhone it seems- the info is pretty sparse) that makes the iPhone the
"server."

> Safari may
> do the same thing if it supports ftp://your IP here and you simply run an
> FTP server on your PC like Cerberus FTP Server, which is freeware and a
> fantastic server with its own virtual server drives.

That's your PC acting as server- this is for the phone.

> I wonder if it will let the PC convert DivX movies to something the
> FruitFone can run.

It's the transfer mechanism- you'd already have had to do the conversion
beforehand.

>
> If this were server software, ATT lawyers would have it off the app store
> in a day. They may still get it removed as they are fighting anything
that
> uses bandwidth like this, of course.


It works over a WiFi network- just the local LAN. AT&T could care less.


> It's just another Web App client like FTP Commander, but with a built in
> player.


No, it adds a bunch of needed features- particularly a file viewer and a
file manager as well. Remember, non-jailbroken iPhones have no native file
explorer- that 8/16GB storage is a giant mystery to all but iTunes! ;-)

In article <Xns9AF963FAD5E95noonehomecom@208.49.80.253>, Larry
<noone@home.com> wrote:

> 4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:39bdd66f-0fb2-422a-86e1-
> a518fde7394e@i76g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:
>
> > A developer has hit a home run with DataCase app for the iPhone or
> > iPod Touch. DataCase turns either of these into wireless standards-
> > compliant, stable, and reasonably high performance FTP servers which
> > work well with Windows Vista, XP, Linux and Mac.
> >
> Er, ah, you need to read the webpage a little better. There's no
> Linux/Unix support, just Win and OSX. This is another WEB APP interface.
> The files are stored on your Mac or PC and the web app lets you download
> them to your iphone. The iPhone is the CLIENT, not the server.

you need to read it a little better. it *lists* linux as supported,
and it is definitely *not* a web app. it is basically an ftp/http/afp
server on the iphone. on a mac, the iphone automatically shows up in
finder, and on windows and other systems it can be accessed it via http
or ftp (and mac too, if ftp or http is preferred).

Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in news:g7urld$gm8$2
@aioe.org:

> No, you initiate the upload or download from the computer (but not the
> iPhone it seems- the info is pretty sparse) that makes the iPhone the
> "server."
>
>

With nothing to offer that is not already iTunes downloaded to the
computer, what would one "serve" to the computer from the WebTV toy? You
certainly don't need a "server" eating up program memory to send it the
pictures from the toy's camera.

On Aug 13, 9:44*am, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
> 4phun <vic.hea...@gmail.com> wrote in news:39bdd66f-0fb2-422a-86e1-
> a518fde73...@i76g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:
>
> > A developer has hit a home run with DataCase app for the iPhone or
> > iPod Touch. DataCase turns either of these into wireless standards-
> > compliant, stable, and reasonably high performance FTP servers which
> > work well with Windows Vista, XP, Linux and Mac.
>
> Er, ah, you need to read the webpage a little better. *There's no
> Linux/Unix support, just Win and OSX. *This is another WEB APP interface. *
> The files are stored on your Mac or PC and the web app lets you download
> them to your iphone. *The iPhone is the CLIENT, not the server. *Safari may
> do the same thing if it supportsftp://yourIP here and you simply run an
> FTP server on your PC like Cerberus FTP Server, which is freeware and a
> fantastic server with its own virtual server drives.
>
> I wonder if it will let the PC convert DivX movies to something the
> FruitFone can run. *That would work over wifi, but not ATT, to the delight
> of ATT.
>
> If this were server software, ATT lawyers would have it off the app store
> in a day. *They may still get it removed as they are fighting anything that
> uses bandwidth like this, of course.
>
> It's just another Web App client like FTP Commander, but with a built in
> player. *Here, use Safari on this:
>
> http://corp.orb.com/
>
> Orb'll even let you watch your cable TV. *I've got guys in Iraq and
> Afghanistan in the Air Force watching family videos and their own cable TV
> channels over Orb to the Air Forces own laptops on the AF broadband
> network. *It's fantastic.....and is free!
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Once again, I ask you to stop broadcasting iPhone crap to the Verizon
> newsgroup. *Why do you persist in making them more angry?

Larry, I said it had Linux support, I run Linux too. Look at the other
Linux users who have already commented on this app on the Apple App
Store, they are happy with it also. Then I hear from some dork who
only reads web pages which IMHO leave a lot out. When you are
uninformed either try it, learn how to sail, or get out of the boat
for we have places to go.

On Aug 13, 1:29*pm, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
> Todd Allcock <eleccon...@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in news:g7urld$gm8$2
> @aioe.org:
>
> > No, you initiate the upload or download from the computer (but not the
> > iPhone it seems- the info is pretty sparse) that makes the iPhone the
> > "server."
>
> With nothing to offer that is not already iTunes downloaded to the
> computer, what would one "serve" to the computer from the WebTV toy? *You
> certainly don't need a "server" eating up program memory to send it the
> pictures from the toy's camera.

You can download a lot of data that you carry a laptop around for.
DataCase does a fairly good job of displaying Word, Excel, PDF, and
other types of useful files that are handy to have without having to
boot up a laptop for. DataCase makes the tiny iPhone or i{Pod Touch
(for the CDMA crowd) an even more versatile device IMHO.

At 13 Aug 2008 17:29:12 +0000 Larry wrote:

> > No, you initiate the upload or download from the computer (but not the
> > iPhone it seems- the info is pretty sparse) that makes the iPhone the
> > "server."
> >
> >
>
> With nothing to offer that is not already iTunes downloaded to the
> computer, what would one "serve" to the computer from the WebTV toy?

Anything you want to "upload" to it- files, media, etc. This allows you to
use the iPhone as a "wireless" 16GB portable hard disk.

You're getting hung up on the word "server"- no one's suggesting that the
iPhone will be pushing files over the internet; FTP was simply the way the
developer managed to implement wireless transfer because the iPhone has no
native wireless transfer capability (outside of e-mail.) On my WinMo
phone, for example, I can simply transfer files via BT OBEX, or via WiFi
to/from network shares with the File Manager, but since the iPhone lacks
such capability out of the box, this app fills a need.

> You
> certainly don't need a "server" eating up program memory to send it the
> pictures from the toy's camera.


But you do, if you want to move files wirelessly, or to a computer without
iTunes installed. Again, on other smartphones or your webtablet, this app
might be redundant, but on the iPhone it plugs a serious feature hole
without the need to Jailbreak it. Remember the iPhone has no on-board file
manager- you can't browse the iPhone's content (other than media files)
from the iPhone itself without 3rd-party help.

We iPhone bashers can't have it both ways- you can't first pick on the
phone for it's missing features and also trash the apps that correct them!
Even Vic, the NG's second biggest iPhone shill, acknowledged these are
features that should've been included.