Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, iPhone
Use an iPhone or iPod Touch in disk mode with DiskAid
by Jay Hathaway Nov 10th 2008 at 1:00PM
One of the first things that iPhone and iPod Touch users noticed was the lack of a built-in "disk mode," where your device would appear on the desktop as a drive that you could use for file storage. Other iPod models even had a setting to specify how much of their storage space should be used for music, and how much should be used for disk mode, but the latest and greatest ones didn't. But thanks to an app called DiskAid, you can still transfer files between your iPhone and your Mac or PC without jailbreaking or using iTunes.Sure, you may already know how to access a jailbroken iPhone's hard drive via SFTP, but that's a pain in the butt compared to DiskAid. You can just plug your device in, start it up, and start transferring files in a straightforward interface that anybody who's ever used Windows Explorer or the OS X Finder can figure out. As a brief disclaimer, realize that storing files on your iPhone doesn't mean your iPhone can interact with them. It's like putting music on an old iPod in disk mode: you can store it there, but you can't play it.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
FunRoyal said 1:21PM on 11-10-2008
Thanks a lot, now I can copy my videos from pc to pc!
YAY :)
check it out: www.funroyal.com
Reply
SDreamer said 2:20PM on 11-10-2008
Finally...
Reply
john said 9:35AM on 11-12-2008
sounds like the iPhone Browser code has been put in a different GUI ???? or is it just me ????
Reply
patrick said 8:55PM on 3-23-2009
wonderful, simple app that worked simply first time, what a refreshing joy!
Reply