Apple's MobileMe News details how iWork for iPad works with iDisk
iWork for iPad was updated yesterday with many changes, one of those being that the mobile app suite now includes integration with the MobileMe iDisk. What does that mean for iPad users who use Pages, Numbers, and Keynote? You can save your documents to the iDisk and then open them either from the iPad or any other internet-attached Mac or Windows machine. The details were posted on MobileMe News, the blog of the MobileMe team.
Windows users can point a browser to me.com/idisk and upload existing Microsoft Office documents. Once the documents are in the cloud, they can be opened from the iPad for viewing or editing. Once work has been completed on the documents, they can be saved back to the iDisk as iWork, Microsoft Office, or PDF files.
It would be nice if iWork for iPad also supported Dropbox or Box.net, but for the time being, it's good to see that Apple has added support for their own cloud storage solution.
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smestorage.com offers a webdav gateway for Dropbox. It's a one time payment of 5 us$.
I couldn't test it yet. I'll do it this weekend.
Yep. Tested and works great!
If you use DropBox and don't want to change services, use smestorage.com
Until Dropbox implements WebDAV it's a viable alternative.
You can use Dropbox if you have a MobileMe account by moving your drop box folder inside your iDisk folder on one of the computers that syncs to both.
It's a bit of a kludge, but it works for saving and opening files with iWork for iPad.
For you corporate users - it works fine with SharePoint which is under the covers a WebDav server.
September 23 2010 at 8:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYeah except it won't display any folders with a space in the name when browsing the list of WEBDav folders, such as the default "Shared Documents" that's created on any given site in the collection. I'm not sure if this is a problem with the iWork suite, or if it's just that SharePoint isn't 100% compatible with the protocol. Anyone know of any workarounds for that?
October 18 2010 at 10:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyActually I think the standard %20 space trick works so Shared%20Documents should work (it does when I access SharePoint in GoodReader as a WebDav server.).
October 18 2010 at 10:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyUnfortunately, this app does not recognize TextEdit documents on my iDisk. Looks like it only reads Word docs or Pages docs. Really disappointing for me, since I have so many .txt files and TextEdit docs. Anyone had different results?
Also, you cannot import media (photos, graphics, clip art, movies, etc.) from your iDisk. The Media panel still only supports importing from Photo Albums on your iPad. :(
But the iPad still needs real ftp accessible to all the Apps. This is all just teasing and we're not that stupid.
September 23 2010 at 6:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyFTP? Why how old. WebDAV and MobileMe are about remote file system all the time. Much more productive and smarter way of working.
September 23 2010 at 6:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyExcept very few webhosts support webdav. Who cares if it's old. It's still current and it works.
September 24 2010 at 4:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIn my opinion, and I see it's not the same as most of the others that have posted here, Apple really should look at the pricing for Mobile Me. It's way too high for what it does, and I simply use the better alternatives like Dropbox, and GoodReader. Email to myself and it's right there in GoodReader as that is set up with my Gmail and can then be uploaded to Dropbox. As you can see it's a couple steps sure, but well worth $100.00 a year if you ask me!
September 23 2010 at 5:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBTW I think it's humorous to even consider the iTunes sync option...they should get rid of that one. So last year...
September 23 2010 at 5:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHave you guys tried to access the webdav account with the client like cyberduck? I've but without success !
September 23 2010 at 5:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGuys i have tried the box.net and it is fine!
You have to write the sever https://box.net/dav
and then you account details and that is it!
Only thing you dont have desktop sync!
Apple has had their own "dropbox" for a while thru mobile me iDisk. They will never support dropbox if I had to guess they make money off of their version.
September 23 2010 at 5:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySince the iWork apps support webdav, at this point its actually dropbox that isn't supporting this, not apple. See this dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/help/62
And as @raffdoc points out, you CAN access box.net via webdav.
No matter how you slice it, this is a great update to the functionality of the iPad apps and a great update to the functionality of the MobileMe service... all for no additional charge.
Save your comments - I understand you can't do this with Dropbox or Box.net. I'm just saying $99 per year's a lot for JUST that functionality.
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