Last second App Store deals
Tonight, TUAW has a couple of last-second deals for you from the iPhone App Store:
Air Sharing Although Avatron's Air Sharing software will eventually sell for $7, they're offering it for free for the next couple of weeks. Air Sharing allows you to mount your iPhone or iPod as a wireless drive on any Mac, Windows or Linux computer according to the Application Description writeup on iTunes.
Text Guru For the next 24 hours, you can pick up a copy of Brancipater Software's Text Guru app for just $0.99. It normally sells for $5. it provides an iPhone-based multi-function text editor that includes cut/copy/paste (inside the app, not between apps), file sharing and email support.
[Via CoolThingsForComputers]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Chris said 10:19PM on 9-08-2008
Wow! This is the first helpful and worthwhile post I've seen from Erica in quite a long time. Kudos!
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wildcat said 10:19PM on 9-08-2008
air sharing just worked great on my windows machine!! took 1 minute to set up. Thanks TUAW!!
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Tom said 10:29PM on 9-08-2008
I don't understand the benefit of Air Sharing, since supposedly the ability to read files from other app folders will be 'fixed' (to not work) in 2.1, and you can only drop files into the Air Sharing folder which other apps can't read.
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Flunky Carter said 10:36PM on 9-08-2008
Umm... you can share files with other computers, think wireless drive homeboy.
spyker said 10:38PM on 9-08-2008
I really love Air Sharing. Free and works perfect. Hmm... is text guru on sale because of the iPhone copy+paste rumors for tomorrow?
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Buckingham said 10:49PM on 9-08-2008
Haha, I just tried Air Sharing and what can I say. I'm very impressed.
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Francis said 11:03PM on 9-08-2008
Nope, it's on sale because Apple set the price to 0.99 by mistake even though we had it set as 4.99, so we decided to keep it at 0.99 for the rest of the day as a fun "experiment".
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brettt said 11:14PM on 9-08-2008
wow, i'm so glad i bought textguru when it came out.
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Bruce Hoult said 11:31PM on 9-08-2008
Text Guru is showing as US$5 (NZ$6.49) in the New Zealand App Store :-(
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ipodrulz said 11:53PM on 9-08-2008
Its unfortunate that you can't mail the files out after you've loaded it onto your iPhone! Though the connection process was really really quick and painless.
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CaliAlly said 6:40AM on 9-09-2008
I am really impressed with Air Sharing! Although I do wish that there was a way to access the files for email or other purposes, the fact that it supports so many different types of files is amazing. Plus, file transfer is essentially instantaneous.
Thanks for telling us about it! I probably wouldn't have known otherwise!
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mcdj said 12:37AM on 9-09-2008
I guess Air Share is good if every computer you work with has wifi. In a corporate environment, most computers do not. I'll hang onto my thumb drive for now.
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Brandon Rotkel said 12:54AM on 9-09-2008
You don't need every computer to have wi-fi, they just all need to be on a network with wi-fi. It shares the iPhone via Bonjour the same way that any Mac on the network does sharing.
DistortedLoop said 8:36AM on 9-09-2008
@Brandon Rotkel - mcdj is correct. In the corporate environment, where WiFi is probably not ubiquotous or open due to security concerns, the iPhone as a WiFi drive will never be a replacement for a USB connection. In numerous corporate clients I visit, WiFi is completely banned.
topspinserve said 12:57AM on 9-09-2008
I'm having trouble setting Air Sharing it up in Vista. In the "Add a Network Location" wizard, it rejects the ip address that Air Sharing told me to enter ("address does not appear to be valid"). Any tips?
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topspinserve said 1:11AM on 9-09-2008
Wow, sorry, I didn't read the instructions carefully. Windows Vista users, you'll need this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=17C36612-632E-4C04-9382-987622ED1D64&displaylang=en to use Air Sharing.
Todd Sieling said 2:54AM on 9-09-2008
These are cool. Thanks for posting them!
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Nick Dennis said 2:12AM on 9-09-2008
Really useful post - thanks!
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Dave Howell said 2:53AM on 9-09-2008
Hi. I'm glad to hear folks are enjoying Air Sharing! Please, if you have any feature requests or tweak suggestions, or if you run into any issues, do visit our Support page at http://www.avatron.com/support
Cheers!
Dave Howell, President
Avatron Software
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Byran Newell said 9:39AM on 9-09-2008
Like ipodrulz said, a way to mail out documents once they're in your "library" would make it the killer app. That's my only feature request- that, and allowing it to be "discovered" like Bonjour connected, shared computers (or drives). You put those things on it, and you've got a hands down winner.