Filetransfer Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

iTwin allows you to share files with PCs securely over the web

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 20th, 2011)

iTwin has added official public Mac compatibility to its innovative file sharing USB stick that allows users to transfer or share files across Macs or PCs no matter where they are in the world. After selecting which files to share users can simply plug one half of an iTwin into a Mac and the ...

Snow Leopard and Lion neck and neck on Thunderbolt file transfers

by Mike Schramm (Sep 9th, 2011)

Macworld has been doing some more testing in Thunderbolt performance, this time between the Snow Leopard and Lion operating systems. The results say that if you spent that $30 on Lion just so your Thunderbolt connection would go faster, you probably wasted your money. Results weren't that ...

How to transfer files between Macs

by Steven Sande (Mar 9th, 2011)

When two or more Macs are gathered in the name of Steve Jobs, there's a good chance that someone is going to want to transfer files between those computers. Macworld's Kirk McElhearn, who also hangs out at TidBITS.com and is a fellow Take Control Ebooks author, has written an excellent ...

First Look: Memeo Send with special deal for TUAW readers

by Steven Sande (Aug 12th, 2009)

Do you need to send large files to clients or friends? Sending those big files through email can be a problem, since sometimes the receiver's ISP limits the size of files that can be received. It's slow and expensive to send files on external hard drives, USB flash drives, or DVDs through express ...

First Look: File Magic 2.0

by Steven Sande (May 11th, 2009)

If there's a genre of iPhone app that's even more prevalent than fart apps, it's file transfer and viewing apps. File Magic 2.0 (click opens iTunes) is the newest entry into this market from SplashData, an app development firm with years of history in the mobile space. As with the other apps of this ...

Cloud file sharing on the iPhone, four ways

by Michael Rose (Feb 28th, 2009)

Among the crowded field of cloud sharing and file synchronization services, there are plenty of interesting options (we've been partial to Dropbox around here, but check around for more), but when you add 'must work well with iPhone' to the requirements list, the choices narrow a bit. I've been ...

First Look: Fliq Tasks

by Steven Sande (Jan 27th, 2009)

Mark/Space has added another member to their rapidly growing family of iPhone file transfer applications. The new baby in the family is Fliq Tasks, which joins Fliq for Mac and Windows, Fliq Notes, and Fliq for iPhone. As with Fliq for iPhone and Fliq Notes, Fliq Tasks is available in the App Store ...

TUAW Faceoff: Mark/Space Fliq for Mac vs. Mobile DropCopy

by Steven Sande (Jan 2nd, 2009)

A few months ago, Mark/Space delivered Fliq for iPhone, a free utility for sending contacts and photos to other iPhones and iPod touches that are also running Fliq. Later, they shipped Fliq for Mac, a US$19.95 application goes beyond the capabilities of the iPhone app by providing an easy way to ...

FileChute to the rescue for sending large files

by Mel Martin (Dec 8th, 2008)

FileChute from Yellow Mug Software has been kicking around for awhile, but has been pretty much under the radar for most people. Some of our readers mentioned it when we reviewed YouSendIt last January. FileChute is powerful because it can send any size file, as long as you have space on your iDisk, ...

Social networking for iPhone: Fliq your friends

by Steven Sande (Oct 21st, 2008)

Longtime Mac developer Mark/Space, Inc. has just announced their first app for iPhone, and it's free. Fliq (click opens iTunes) runs on the iPhone and iPod touch and is billed as a "real-time social networking app between friends in close proximity." If you and your friends are on the same Wi-Fi ...

First Look: Briefcase for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Sep 29th, 2008)

Briefcase is the latest in a flood of apps for the iPhone that let you transfer files to and from a PC or Mac, then view them on the iPhone. After using a beta for several weeks, my personal opinion is that Briefcase is the easiest of the bunch to use. So far, it's also the only app of this type to ...

First Look: FileMagnet

by Giles Turnbull (Jul 23rd, 2008)

FileMagnet (mentioned briefly by Dave in his iPhone apps I actually use post yesterday) is a low-cost wireless file transfer tool for iPhone and iPod Touch. It requires you to install a companion desktop application, also called FileMagnet, which acts as the conduit for file transfer. Usage is ...

Pyro 1.6: Campfire client gains search, drag and drop file transfer enhancements and more

by David Chartier (Jun 12th, 2007)

It's been over a year since we first mentioned Pyro, the powerful Mac OS X client for 37signals' Campfire web-based chat service for groups and businesses. While I personally didn't pick up a copy back then since I wasn't a Campfire user, I'm not entirely familiar with every change that has come ...

Mac 101: Transfer files with iChat

by Erica Sadun (May 17th, 2007)

Why pay almost twenty bucks for file transfer programs like Anzan when iChat provides essentially the same technology for free? This gallery shows you how to use iChat to send files to your buddies. Just drag a file into the text entry field in your chat window and press return. iChat notifies your ...

BoxCloud: dead simple file sharing

by David Chartier (Jan 29th, 2007)

Billing themselves as "dead simple file sharing for design and media professionals," BoxCloud seems to have a good thing going here. If you deal with a lot of clients and customers who simply aren't hip to FTP or other ways of transferring large files, BoxCloud offers a pretty simple, nay - dead ...