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July 07, 2007
Accessing Your Computer's Files Remotely Via iPhone
So I'm out and about earlier today and realize that some information I need is in a file on my MacBook Pro . . . which of course is sitting at home on my desk. Sigh.
Waitaminute. I've got a brand new portable Internet device in my pocket. Wouldn't it be simple if I could just access the files on my home computer from the iPhone?
Waitanotherminute. I use FolderShare, a free service from Microsoft, to keep key files on my multiple computers in sync across the various machines. One of FolderShare's other features is that you can use the FolderShare web interface to access files on any of the machines that you've configured with FolderShare. Maybe I could access those files via FolderShare's web interface and Safari on the iPhone?
Holdonthereaminute! Are you sure this is secure? Well, FolderShare is a secure P2P infrastructure. All the traffic is authenticated via RSA, encrypted via AES, and delivered over SSL. Good enough for me. Let's give it a shot.
Starting up Safari on the iPhone . . . thumbing http://www.foldershare.com into the iPhone keyboard . . . yep, there's the site . . . logging into FolderShare . . . navigating to the FolderShare Remote Access interface . . . yep, the FolderShare client on my home computer is running . . . click on that icon for my home computer . . . zowee! there's the Home directory . . . navigating to the Documents folder . . . scrolling down the list of files . . . bingo! there's the file . . . opening . . .
Ta-dah! There I am sitting in the bookstore viewing a PDF pulled off my computer at home over the Internet on my iPhone.
Sometimes technology makes me really happy.
Posted July 7, 2007 03:28 PM
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