Put your iDevice in the Finder
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From: nospam on 9 Jul 2010 21:18 In article <michelle-EAA23B.18111909072010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > The system tray of your Mac? > > > > always a sign of quality software when the vendor has no idea about the > > target platform user interface. > > So he used incorrect terminology. which is my point. if they screw up the simple stuff, how do you know they won't screw up the complicated stuff? > So far it hasn't. I'm going to uninstall it, though; I don't see any use > (for me, that is) in being able to access the iPhone through the Finder. unless you can get access to the parts that are off limits, such as being able to modify the hosts file to do ad blocking, there isn't a whole lot of use for it.
From: nospam on 9 Jul 2010 21:18 In article <michelle-F17CC1.18092209072010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > OK, let me spell it out for you. iPhoneDisk is Mac only. iPhone Explorer > was originally for PCs, but there's also a Mac version. i've had iphone explorer for nearly a year.
From: Jolly Roger on 10 Jul 2010 10:50 In article <michelle-EAA23B.18111909072010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article <090720101659369911%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, > nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > > > > > "Mount an iPad, iTouch or iPhone to USB disk mode on a Mac. Phone > > > > Disk is a tiny program which runs in the system tray of your Mac. > > > > When it finds an > > > > > > The system tray of your Mac? > > > > always a sign of quality software when the vendor has no idea about the > > target platform user interface. > > So he used incorrect terminology. I get the impression they were simply too lazy to make a Mac-specific version of the document. > > the package includes macfuse and an application. it won't do anything to > > the iphone, but it might cause problems on the mac (probably not > > though). > > So far it hasn't. I'm going to uninstall it, though; I don't see any use > (for me, that is) in being able to access the iPhone through the Finder. Same here. I've had it installed ever since I jail broke my iPhone 3G, but have never really needed it. (It's never caused problems, either.) -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Jolly Roger on 10 Jul 2010 10:51 In article <michelle-8AB067.18263609072010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article <090720101818092642%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, > nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > > > > So far it hasn't. I'm going to uninstall it, though; I don't see any > > > use (for me, that is) in being able to access the iPhone through the > > > Finder. > > > > unless you can get access to the parts that are off limits, such as > > being able to modify the hosts file to do ad blocking, there isn't a > > whole lot of use for it. > > Well, there has been a vocal minority here screaming for the ability to > access the iPhone's files through the Finder. They're the reason I posted > the link. If you want to access the entire file system, you simply need to jail break the device, which is not all that hard to do. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Jolly Roger on 10 Jul 2010 11:32
In article <michelle-A3298A.08202810072010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article <jollyroger-2A3A22.09503110072010(a)news.individual.net>, > Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > > > So he used incorrect terminology. > > > > I get the impression they were simply too lazy to make a Mac-specific > > version of the document. > > The program (iphone disk) is Mac-only. iPhone Explorer has both Mac and > Windows versions. That doesn't affect my impression. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR |