WebDisk Provides The Easiest Way To Share Files Between iPhone & Desktop

There are more ways of sharing files between computers and iOS devices than anyone would care to know. You can use the official method and stick with iTunes, or if you want something that isn’t likely to wipe your entire music library without warning, there are plenty of third-party apps available for iPhone that let users transfer files without creating a lot of fuss. WebDisk is one such app, and it can be used to share files between iOS devices and your desktop computer over Wi-Fi. So, what’s really special about WebDisk when there are other apps capable of performing the same feat? The biggest advantage WebDisk has over its competitors is its simplicity. In a couple of steps, you can transfer any file from your PC to an iPhone or iPad. In addition to that, WebDisk has a pretty decent file viewer of its own, which supports a lot of file formats and ensures that you don’t have to open most received files in other apps just to view their content.

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Using WebDisk is so simple that there isn’t even a tutorial at the start of the app (a practice that has become the norm for iOS apps). When you launch it for the first time, there is just the app’s settings screen with a few words of instructions. Before doing anything else, just make sure your iDevice and computer are both on the same Wi-Fi network. If you want the file transfer to be secure, it is possible to define a password for the connection. Anyone wishing to access your device or share files with you will have to enter the password you choose. To access WebDisk from your PC or Mac, just open the desktop computer’s web browser and enter the address provided to you by WebDisk on its Settings page. If you configured a password, it will have to be entered in the login field on the web browser before the connection can be established. Once your iPhone and computer are connected, you can start sending files to the iDevice. To do that, hit the Choose File button in the web interface and select the file you want to share. After that, click Upload and the file will appear on your phone regardless of its format.

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WebDisk is not all about receiving files, and you can send images from your iPhone or iPad to your computer as well. That can be done by hitting the small button located in the top-right corner of the Files section of the app. You can even add a description for each photo, and images can be chosen from the device’s camera roll or shot straight from the camera accessible from within the app. The file viewer in WebDisk supports Office docs, images, audio files, PDFs, CSV files and iWork documents. You can also receive other files on WebDisk, but you will need to open them with iFile or some other third-party app.

WebDisk is available as a free, universal app and we can safely say that there is no other iOS app that offers this level of convenience when it comes to file sharing.

Edit, Rename & Share Files From Your iPhone/iPad With FileApp Pro

For iOS users having jailbroken devices, iFile is the best file management app. If you are not a fan of the Cydia store, however, there are a lot of apps in the App Store that can help you gather your important files in one place, and then edit them with convenience. FileApp Pro is one such file manager for iPhone and iPad that can be used for file sharing and editing. The app supports file transfer via USB and over Wi-Fi, and once you have gotten a photo or document inside FileApp Pro, you can make a lot of changes to it, or share it with anyone else quite easily. The file formats supported by FileApp Pro are numerous, and include the likes of iWork files, images, PDFs, MS Office documents, archives and media files.

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FileApp Pro has a simple enough main page, but that doesn’t mean everything about the app is straightforward. To get started, you will have to import all your important documents from your computer to your iDevice. This can be done via USB or Wi-Fi. The Help menu in FileApp Pro suggests that you use DiskAid if you are looking to transfer files to your iPhone or iPad using a USB cable, but a much simpler way is to simply connect your device with iTunes and transfer data using that. For Wi-Fi file sharing, users have to follow the instructions provided by FileApp Pro, which lead to the configuration of a new FTP server on your local network. It is possible to set up a password on the files shared over Wi-Fi, if you want to bring a touch of security to the whole FileApp Pro mix. Importing media files that are already on your iPhone or iPad is a piece of cake, as there is a dedicated menu available in the app for that purpose. Tapping the Photos & Videos button takes users to their device’s camera roll, and any number of files can be chosen from there.

The main screen of FileApp Pro allows its users to create new files within the app as well. Hit the ‘+’ button from the top bar, and you can make a new image file, text file or start a new audio recording. The files created in FileApp Pro, or imported from external sources, bring up detailed options when you tap and hold your finger over them, including the choice of sharing via email, printing the file, converting it to ZIP format or renaming it. These options are available for all files stored in FileApp Pro.

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The app offers a ton of sorting options for imported files to add even more convenience to the life of users. Files can be viewed by name, type, date or last viewed. If you want, FileApp Pro offers options to open imported files with other apps installed on your iPhone. Similarly, you can choose to open files from other apps (like the stock Mail one) with FileApp Pro. Through the Preferences menu in FileApp Pro, users get to tweak with file handling options for all formats compatible with the app. You can also choose to make the app show hidden files or toggle on the badge that indicates the number of new imports you have made to FileApp Pro.

FileApp Pro is a universal app, and has gone free for a limited time. If you want a comprehensive file manager for your files in general (not just your iDevice files), don’t miss this opportunity and grab the app right now.

How To Recover Your Accidentally Deleted Files from Windows

Sometimes you may accidentally hit the delete button(and emptied the recycle bin too) and forget that there was an extremely important document inside that folder. With FreeUndelete, you can recover your deleted files.

FreeUndelete is a Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin and those deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

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Select the drive you want to scan (the default is C:) from the Drives pane. Then, click the Scan button.

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This software will now search all your files that deleted accidentally. Depending on the size and speed of your hard disk, and how many files you’ve deleted, it should take few minutes depending on your PC’s specs to complete the scan.

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And then you’ll be presented with a list of files that you can recover. You can also filter the result by typing specific filename or extention in the filter found files box and you can also filter the search by typing specific folder name in filter found folder box.

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To restore a file or a folder, select it by clicking on it once, then click the Undelete button. You can also change the location of the undeleted files by clicking on Browse and specifying the designated folder.

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I hope this post will help you in recovering your lost files. Feedbacks are welcome in the comment section.

DiskDigger Now On Android; Lets You Recover Deleted Photos

The team behind DiskDigger – a popular free data recovery solution for Windows – considers your Android data equally important, too, and hence, have decided to bring their nifty little tool to the Google Play Store. Currently available for rooted devices only, DiskDigger (beta) for Android caters to your image recovery needs. Sporting a minimalist interface, the app has the capacity to scan your device’s storage for deleted image files (in JPEG or PNG format), and lets you retrieve them in multiple ways. For instance, you may opt to restore the recovered files to a location of choice, or share them via mail. The developers vow to make DiskDigger as comprehensive a file recovery solution for Android as it is for your Windows PC, but as of now, if you’re too worried about losing those precious family pictures on your formatted SD card altogether, this handy Android tool can help you retrieve most (if not all) of them with ease.

    Since DiskDigger requires root access, you can go through our comprehensive compilation of root guides to learn more about the rooting process for your Android device.

As for DiskDigger, it currently lacks any bells and whistles in terms of aesthetics, and looks to focus primarily on getting the job done. Once launched and granted root access, the app presents you with the list of different partitions of your Android’s storage. Select the one that holds (or rather, held) your photos, and hit the Scan device button to begin the scanning process. On the screen that follows, you may hit the File Types button to decide whether you want to detect and recover JPEG, PNG, or both types of image files. All the detected files appear in the left window along with their respective file formats, and you have the option to preview each file that you want to recover.

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Once scanning completes, or you’ve managed to trace your lost image files, all you need to do is hit the Save button to restore them to a custom location. Tapping the Mail button sends them to a mail address of choice. The app has been successfully tested on Galaxy Nexus (running AOKP custom ROM), as it managed to effectively detect and recover image files of both supported formats.

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Depending on your device’s storage capacity, the app might take considerable time to perform a complete scan. However, given the purpose that it brings to the table, and the effectiveness with which it goes about the business, rest assured that every single minute is worth waiting for. After all, it’s about recovering your lost images!

How To Recover Your Accidentally Deleted/Formatted Or Corrupted Pictures From Your Digital Camera

Did you accidentally press delete or format button on your camera by mistake? Or you took a photo and later found that it was corrupted? Don’t fret yet, thanks to Ars Plus Digital Photo Recovery, now you can recover all accidently deleted and corrupted photos from your digital camera. This software is just 1.2MB in size and doesn’t need to be installed, just download it and run it, that’s all. Also it needs no technical knowledge beforehand, which means almost everyone can use it.

Run the program, and click Start which will be given at the bottom of the screen, in the next step simply click Next, it will take you to Select Action menu, there are 3 options given as shown in the screenshot below,

image-thumb14Select “Restore photos directly from memory card”, this option will be selected as default, and this is the action most of you will actually need, it recovers all corrupted and formatted photos from your camera. Do not select any other Action unless you know what you are up to.

Now click Next, and it will ask you to Select the Card Reader or Camera Drive. When you connect your camera to your computer a logical drive is created(In my case a drive named Removable Disk was created), you will have to select this drive from the drop down list as shown in the screenshot below,

image-thumb15After selecting your Drive from the list, click Next. In the next step it will ask you to Select the file type that you expect to recover, in my case it was JPG. Most cameras save the photos in JPG format, if you are in doubt about your camera then you can select multiple file types from the list.

image-thumb16After selecting the file types, click Next. In the next step it asks for the Target Folder, it is the folder where all your recovered files will be saved in.

image-thumb17After selecting the Target Folder click Start. It will start recovering you files from your camera and save all your recovered files in the target folder you selected.

The process can take from several minutes to few hours, depending on the size of your memory card, the number of photos that it needs to recover and the speed of your Computer.

    Do not run any other program and do not disconnect your camera during the process, otherwise your photos might not get recovered.

I ran this program on my camera and it surprisingly recovered 95% of the photos. The other 5% were either messed up or completely empty. But who cares, 95% of my photos are back safe with me.

Jotta: Cloud Storage That Lets You Recover Accidentally Deleted Data

Backing up your important files is more important than most people think. For instance, one’s Outlook can crash anytime, media files can go missing in an instant and those confidential documents always ask for some place safer. One of the most common things most people do whenever doing backups, is to store the data on local storage medium. However, the fact is that cloud services are not only safer, but often cheaper, too. No longer you need to carry thumb drives, optical media or moving plates to keep tabs on backup copies, when you can already store data to online locations with instantaneous remote access. Jotta is a cloud based online backup service that might help you in keeping your personal files safe and secure. Akin to most cloud services, such as Dropbox or SkyDrive, Jotta offers multiple subscription plans, including a free user account with 5GB of cloud storage. The service’s client application is available for both desktop and mobile platforms, as well as a Web API.

Jotta’s Windows client is very easy to work with. After installation, you’re asked to input your Email and Password (you can sign up for the service for free, which doesn’t even require a confirmation email) to link your current computer with your user profile.

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The interface of Jotta hints a straightforward usage, and the application adheres to that. It contains four tabs at the top; Backup, Restore, Transfers and Settings. Backup is where you do all the dragging and dropping of your directories to sync your files with the online storage. The desktop client (and Jotta itself, for that matter) has some uncanny behavior towards how it treats your files. For example, you can only drag a whole folder to the cloud – which means no individual file synchronization. On the bright side, Jotta keeps deleted files in Trash directory for up to 30 days – a nifty feature to recover accidentally deleted items. The backed up files can be easily restored under Restore tab.

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Files that are currently in the pipeline for upload or download to/from Jotta server, appear under Transfers tab. It shows both outbound and inbound transfers separately, under Uploads and Downloads sub-tabs.

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The application’s Settings tab contains some generic parameters, as well as bandwidth, sync schedule and proxy options. For instance, Bandwidth sub-tab allows you to cap upload and download limits for file transfers. You may also specify the maximum number of simultaneous transfers. Moreover, you can also unlink current PC from your account within the General tab.

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Jotta offers 5 GB of cloud storage on free accounts. Users with additional storage needs can always opt for paid subscriptions, which contains Jotta 20 GB and Jotta Unlimited plans for €2.99 and €5.99, respectively. The client application is available for Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and Android.

Maxjournal For iPad: Maintain Your Journal & Back It Up To The Cloud

We have covered a lot of journal apps for iOS, but we keep coming across different new ones that bring something refreshing to this seemingly narrow area of app development. The latest contender to make its presence known to us is Maxjournal for iPad. Although the app is a bit limited due to its unavailability for iPhone and iPod touch, it is still good enough to merit a review here. So, what makes Maxjournal different from other iOS apps of its kind? It has a lot of fancy features, like customizable backgrounds and multiple fonts for entries in your journals, but the best thing about Maxjournal is the fact that it lets you create a backup of your journal, and you can import entries from your backup pretty easily, too. Maxjournal lets its users create as many separate journals as they want, and you can add up to 30 photos to each entry of all journals.

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Just the way good journal apps should be, Maxjournal has a really simple interface. To get started, hit the ‘+’ button located in the top bar of the app, and you will get the option to start a new journal, or import one from the file sharing area of Maxjournal in iTunes. Before you begin, though, hit the eye icon, and adjust the app’s looks. Users can choose any color or texture they want for the background of the main page in Maxjournal. For each new journal you create in the app, you have to provide a title, along with other details like cover photo, page theme and password. It is not compulsory to put a password on all journals, and users get to make that choice.

Maxjournal iPad EntryOnce inside a journal, you are automatically taken to a new entry marked by today’s date. It is possible to rate any entry using the stars provided in the top right corner of the page. To help you neatly sort out all your writings, Maxjournal supports tagging. You may create as many tags as you want, and add them to any post. With each entry, it is possible to attach images from your iPad’s camera roll. The top bar in text editing mode lets users change the font type and size, and you can also choose to search for a particular word in the current entry. Individual posts can be backed up with Maxjournal’s iTunes syncing, and if you want, it is possible to easily export files via desktop or iTunes file transfer. The app allows you to export and backup files as PDFs or simple text.

Maxjournal has gone free for a limited time, and for all iPad owners who like to keep a detailed diary, the app should prove to be a pretty good addition to their device.