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Ecamm updates iPhone Drive
Gallery: iPhone Drive 1.4
Mac and iPhone/iPod developer Ecamm has just released a major upgrade to their iPhone Drive utility. iPhone Drive allows you to access the user data on your iPhone or iPod touch, both read and write. With it, you can copy files to and from the user partition. So if you need to bring some important files along with you, this utility turns your iPod or iPhone into a portable drive. What it doesn't do is this: It does not create a general-use USB device. You need iPhone Drive on both ends--to put data onto your system and to take it off.
The new 1.4 version provides four major upgrades: you can play any song from your onboard music library directly from the utility, you can access your SMS message archive and call history, and you can view the photos you've snapped using your onboard camera. Obviously these last three options are limited to iPhones only but despite the name, the software works with both iPhones and iPod touches.
These upgrades join iPhone Drive's existing feature repertoire that includes file I/O and read-only access to your music, ringtones, podcasts, audio books and notes. The 1.4 upgrade is free to users who registered versions 1.3 and earlier and $19.95 for new users.
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peter said 2:42PM on 2-01-2008
it would be even more awesomer if it allowed to edit notes, and send sms's
two of the things I can't understand why apple left them out. edit notes on my mac and send sms.
I really thought this iphone was 5 years ahead of it's time, but I guess that was also marketing bullsh*t from our god steve.
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Justin said 2:59PM on 2-01-2008
Hey Erica--
Your friendly neighborhood med student here. Any thoughts on modifying the dialogue box that shows up when I get a text message? It currently shows the text msg and says "Ignore or View", which are pretty stupid options in my opinion. When I ignore, then I have to come back to the SMS app and read it so it's marked as read, if I click View, then it disrupts whatever I'm doing so that it will be marked as read. Any advice from the dev community about this? It would be nice to have a "mark as read" option, alongside ignore and view, ya know? (Possible TUAW responds post? ;))
Justin
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punkassjim said 3:37PM on 2-01-2008
Update your phone to 1.1.3, and your prayer will be answered. The jailbreak path for 1.1.3 is a little rocky...worked great for me the first time, then I did something stupid, and now I can't get 1.1.3 jailbroken again.
punkassjim said 3:40PM on 2-01-2008
I'm a much bigger fan of the AFP daemon with Bonjour support. Connect to iphone.local, and it just mounts on your desktop like any other shared drive. And you can easily enable/disable it with UIctl or (better yet) NetServices.
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Ryan Bies said 5:54PM on 2-01-2008
I do a similar thing using MacFuse + MacFusion to mount over SSHfs (but I used this solution for other things and it was convenient). There's also a utility based on the MacFuse framework that allows you to mount /Media or /Root of any plugged-in iPhone.
josimar said 2:49PM on 2-11-2008
por favor me ajuden meu iphone nao entra mais no menu ta pedindo uma senha de 4 digitos me ajuden por favor nao sei oque fase que deus abençoi a todos
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