First Look: iPocket for iPhone/iPod touch

One of our fellow bloggers, Erica Sadun, sent me an iPhone/iPod touch application that she created to manage files. iPocket is sort of like a Finder for your iPhone. It allows you to peer into the file structure on your iPhone. Specifically, I was looking to retrieve one of my voicemail.amr files for saving.

This application allows you to browse files locally, through FTP and a web interface. You can also send files via Bonjour (using a specially made Mac app) and through email. This is really handy if you want to browse the file structure of an application, or if you need to grab a file. Currently you can view images, sounds, movies, PDF files, text, and property files in iPocket. You will not, however, have access to your iTunes media library on the iPhone as Apple doesn't allow you to view this data.

Although this was submitted before the App Store deadline, it remains in review with an uncertain shelf date. You can also check out the gallery of screenshots from the application.

First Look: iPocket for iPhone

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Source: http://ericasadun.com/AppStore/iPocket/

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TechIsCool

This is so stupid there is no browser and well you can download and upload files for the website that's about it...

August 22 2008 at 7:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jase

Yeah!!!
At last it has arrived in the App Store (Official!)
"iPocket Pro"

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=285898097&mt=8

August 22 2008 at 2:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

AquaMethod

.fseventsd/ ? Does iPhone OS use FSEvents in any way? I can't imagine how, except maybe for syncing.

August 11 2008 at 2:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dreamwriter

This is still in review because what it does isn't allowed. Apps in the App Store are not allowed to access any data at all outside of themselves, except the contact list and photos, and those only using special library calls to access them.

August 07 2008 at 2:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chuck

The real question is whether this would let you modify files that require root access. I have a dire need to be able to modify /etc/hosts.

August 07 2008 at 9:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

f00fighter

Where can I find Apple's official SDK policy that prohibits access to your iTunes media library on the iPhone??

August 07 2008 at 9:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Kai Cherry

It is in the license, and the developer documentation. Without violating the NDA, the best I can tell you is that this prohibition is enforced by contract and by the way the system itself runs apps.

While I love erica to death, I am not sure how she could have written this app without violating the license since there is no way for an app to do this in the scope of the APIs devs are allowed to use.

August 07 2008 at 7:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

I wonder, if you use this to browse to your photos and email one to flickr, will the EXIF data be retained? I know when you email it through 'normal' channels, it gets forcibly resized and the EXIF is stripped.

August 07 2008 at 9:05 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Itchy Pajamas

This looks like an app I want very much for my iPhone. I'm an aging software developer, and I like to know where my stuff is. Thanks to Erica for creating it, and I hope we'll be able to get it soon.

I wish this had been the _first_ app to appear in the App Store. Maybe after a hundred more "tip calculators" get released, then this one will show up.

August 07 2008 at 8:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ars_workerbee

Awesome, now Erica's got other folks flogging her dead horses for her.

Le sigh. TUAW has gone so far downhill, its sad. :(

August 07 2008 at 8:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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ConsultDifferent

TUAW: "Erica, enough of all the negative Apple articles. We are getting complaints!"

Erica: "Okay, Scott. Have fun writing for MacUser. I'll be good over here" (whistles)

Erica (whispering) : "Hey Cory, can you post this for me...?"

I think the best quote in that regard I recently read was "Ever notice how good writers leave TUAW for other weblogs, but never the other way around?"

'nuff said.

Cory : "Sure thing, Erica"

August 07 2008 at 12:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

BlackSmp

Want it.. Want it now...

August 07 2008 at 8:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply