Since the iPhones (and their cousins iPod Touches…) were first released, one of the biggest complaints I’ve heard from those who have them (myself included) is that unlike the previous iPods Apple had released, the iPhone could not be used as a USB drive to store and transfer files. Even with the advent of jailbreaking, all of the solutions to this that I’ve found up until now have required that you have iTunes on the device- something that isn’t feasible for people like me whose work computers are solidly locked down such that iTunes cannot be installed on it (and even if it could be installed, there would be trouble if there were an audit of the computers). USB Drive from Dmytro is the first true solution to use the iPhone (or presumably a similarly jailbroken Touch) as an honest-to-goodness USB storage device.
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We got an email earlier today from the folks who developed the Pastefire application letting us know about the new features that they’ve added to the app and improvements they’ve added to the service in general. Of greatest interest to me is the fact that the ‘copy zone’ has been expanded out to a full 999 characters, making it a much more useful service for me to type things up on the computer for posting to blocked sites via the iPhone.
The newest version also adds push notifications and the ability to specify to automatically launch some features (like sending mail or SMS) via the transferred content. Full details can be found on the Pastefire page and on the Appsfire Blog.
And just to prove how useful this actually is- this entry was typed up and transferred with the Pastefire app.
3.1.3 Firmware is latest in the game of tennis between Apple and Jailbreakers- but the losers in the game could be those of us who have paid for jailbreak apps that we’d lose forever if Apple succeeds in eliminating Jailbreaking.
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This week’s episode was a day late and a co-host short as convention travel and other things happening in our lives pushed the episode back to Monday when only Bob could record. In lieu of a normal core topic, Bob addresses some of the listener feedback we’ve gotten recently on this week’s show: You Tweet, We Listen.
You can find the full show notes below the cut. Episodes can be downloaded by clicking the Episodes tab above.
Intro Music: Borderline D.U. Mix from Mixter Two – I Don’t Know What I’m Doing by Brad Sucks . Read more »
I just wanted to make a quick note that there will be an episode this week, it just got delayed a bit due to my vacation last week. We’ve tried a few things differently as well to hopefully correct a few issues people have pointed out to us, so hopefully it’ll turn out well! So keep an eye out for the new episode, and thanks for listening!
This past week was my annual trek down to Atlanta for a few days vacation visiting my family there followed by Anime Weekend Atlanta. The last time I’d made the drive to Atlanta, I was testing out the then initial-release version of Navigon’s MobileNavigator software. Shortly before it was time to make the trip again, Navigon released a fairly significant update, version 1.2.0, so I got the test it out again on this drive. Read more »
This week’s episode is going to be delayed by a day due to unforeseen circumstances- but we’re going to give you loyal Blog and Twitter followers a chance to win one of the promo codes we were going to be announcing giving away early. So, if you’re seeing this before Monday (August 31, 2009) evening, you have the chance to win!
Send us an email at feedback@the-appcast.com or a Tweet at one of our two accounts (theappcast or appcastnow) before 8pm EST Monday, August 31 and you’ll be entered to win a promo code for a free copy of Timerz34, a cool timer & stopwatch app developed by a fellow Appcast listener. We’ll announce the winner on the show (and notify you directly as well) when we record it tomorrow, so get your entries in now! 
A few weeks back our loyal listeners may recall, I made a passing comment about having bought and read through a Kindle book on my iPhone using the Amazon Kindle app on it. Since then, I’ve been paying a little more attention (instead of outright ignoring them like I usually do…) to the plethora of eBooks that are released as stand-alone apps in the App Store every day, and as such thinking a bit out their place- or rather, my thoughts as to a complete lack thereof…
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February 26, 2010 12:52 pm | 
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