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iSilo™

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introduction

The iPhone and iPod touch devices do not have built-in general file transfer capabilities, so each third-party application that requires access to external files is solely responsible for implementing its own file transfer mechanism. The initial release of iSilo™ for iPhone OS, version 1.0, provided the ability to transfer document files to your device by downloading them from a web server.

Version 1.2 implemented a file server within iSilo™ that allows you to connect via Wi-Fi to iSilo™ on your device from a desktop computer to transfer files directly. This article describes how to transfer files with this method using Mac OS X.

These instructions assume the following:

• You have iSilo™ installed on your iPhone or iPod touch device.
• You have a Wi-Fi network through which your iPhone or iPod touch device is connected.
• You have a Mac OS X computer to which you want to connect your iPhone or iPod touch device for transferring files.
• Both your Mac OS X computer and your iPhone/iPod touch device are on the same network. Your computer can be connected via a wired Ethernet cable as long as it is on the same network as the one serving the Wi-Fi connected devices.

Note that the images shown here may differ from your particular setup depending on the version of iSilo™ you have installed and the version of Mac OS X on your system, but the instructions are pretty much the same. The screenshots in this article were taken on a system running Mac OS X 10.5.5.

In the instructions that follow, the word computer will be used to refer to your Mac OS X computer and the word device will be used to refer to your iPhone or iPod touch device.

instructions

1. In order to be able to transfer files to your device, you need to start the iSilo™ file server on your device. In iSilo™'s document list view, tap the More button on the right part of the navigation bar.