Turn your iPhone into a wireless drive with DataCase

One feature of many other handheld devices is the ability to use the device as a portable flash drive to move data between a couple of computers. The iPhone doesn't have that ability now, but will on July 28, 2008.

That's the day that DataCase will be available in the iTunes App Store for $6.99. From Veiosoft, DataCase works with Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) and Bonjour to allow any Mac on the same network as your phone to transfer files to and from it.

Your iPhone appears as a Mac volume, so you just drag-and-drop data you want to take with you. If you're a Windows or Linux user, DataCase gives you the same capabilities from your iPhone using HTTP and FTP.

In case you want to view those files you've moved to your iPhone, DataCase lets you read Microsoft Office, PDF, and text files. You can create up to 16 different volumes on your iPhone, each of which can be set up with read/write/browse permissions. Volumes can be made invisible to protect data from unauthorized people or iPhone snatchers.

This is an innovative app that I think a lot of iPhone owners are going to buy come July 28th.

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Source: http://www.veiosoft.com/

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sylvain

DataCase is now released in the app store...

August 12 2008 at 2:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

robertlam1818

You can only FTP or http from the pc. Not too user friendly. I will wait for either a free version or a better version.

July 21 2008 at 8:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iball

And this is better than OpenSSH on a jailbroken 2.0 firmware...how?
Oh that's right, it's not.

July 20 2008 at 7:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mnik

That is one seriously ugly GUI.

July 20 2008 at 7:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Osaka

How long before people start making personal web-servers on kit like this?
The kind of walk-with-you device people have said was impossible for years is perfectly doable.

When the storage of the iPhone improves, the capabilities for this will be immense: p2p via the internet will dopple a little and it'll be people trading mix-tapes all over again. :)

Fuck The SocialÂ©

July 15 2008 at 2:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bsonk

OMG... The AFPd app that was available if you jailbroke 1.1.3+ was the exact same thing as this- but free. The app store is just a way to make us pay for things the community made for free with jailbreaks...

July 15 2008 at 2:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ken

I'm doing this now with FileMagnet.

July 15 2008 at 1:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mark

i hope they have someone design some graphics for that baby.

then i'm totally sold.

July 15 2008 at 12:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sl0bber

Nuts!

1 - why the iPhone doesn't already have file sharing built-in, like any other normal iPod, is beyond me and everyone else who bought into this piece of crap

2 - open source software is far and away NOT better in any way than paid-for software; in fact, it is unimaginably worse (I'm telling you this as an IT Manager for a mid-size company with over 18 years of experience), mainly because of the lack of real-time support

July 15 2008 at 11:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Adam

I have nagging wonders about whether or not Apple will approve this. Does anyone know what the dilly is on that? Have they already been approved for a 28th launch?

July 15 2008 at 9:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply