The file-sharing app, Discover, is available for free at the App Store on your iPhone or through the iTunes store.
One of the iPhone apps I wrote about the other day [“My Favorite iPhone Apps (So Far)”] has a major update available today.
Discover is an application that uses Safari (or, presumably, any other browser) on your desktop to facilitate file-sharing. While you still have to manually type your iPhone’s IP address in your desktop browser’s Address Bar, the new version offers a streamlined and more powerful interface to share files between your computer and your iPhone.
The new version also lets you mount your iPhone as a WebDAV network drive (i.e., it shows up in the Finder as a shared device). Though you can connect right from your desktop using your Mac, Discover’s makers recommend using a WebDAV-enabled FTP client like Transmit to make the connection as speedy as possible.
On the Mac, you can use Command-K in the Finder to make your iPhone appear on your computer’s Desktop.
In Windows, you can use the “Map Network Drive” feature on the Start Bar to connect to your iPhone.
The connection process is nicely detailed in the Help section in Discover’s iPhone app.
Discover’s major competitors in the App Store are the also-free Briefcase Lite (there’s a more powerful $4.99 version, simply called Briefcase) and the $6.99 Air Sharing (it actually mounts your iPhone on your desktop as a wireless hard drive).
Discover is made by B-Base Development Inc. Discover is free because it’s ad-supported.
Discover’s browser-based interface for transferring files between the iPhone and your desktop.
