{"id":937,"date":"2009-03-21T15:53:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T23:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/22\/datacase-vs-air-sharing\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T15:53:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T23:53:25","slug":"datacase-vs-air-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/21\/datacase-vs-air-sharing","title":{"rendered":"DataCase vs Air Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty much useless for most people, but I feel <em>DataCase<\/em>, the iPhone file storage application, is being sorely misrepresented.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, Air Sharing is touted to be the best choice and I always wonderd why. Well, I just found out that I had already purchased <em>Air Sharing<\/em> when it was new (I tried purchasing it yesterday then I was informed that I already owned it &#8211; hence had a free upgrade <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_937_1('footnote_plugin_reference_937_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_937_1('footnote_plugin_reference_937_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_937_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">1 <\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_937_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Which is the case for all iPhone apps you purchase<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_937_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_937_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>So I finally tried them both and here&#8217;s the lowdown:<!--more--><!-- \/\/ --><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep it short and sweet:<\/p>\n<p><em>DataCase<\/em> beats <em>Air Sharing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First, I created this <a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3657\/3360833373_989cbb3162_o.jpg\">map,<\/a> (2165&#215;700) and loaded it to <em>Air Sharing<\/em> (just like I did with <em>DataCase<\/em>) and view it. You can try downloading it yourself &#8211; then try to zoom into it with <em>Air Sharing<\/em>&#8230; notice that it blanks out at some point when you pinch-zoom. Unacceptable limitation\/bug&#8230; period.<\/p>\n<p>Second, It can&#8217;t seem to load large PDFs (it gave up on a 47MB PDF I had), not so with DataCase.<\/p>\n<p>Third, while it does support Bonjour, it doesn&#8217;t broadcast itself to Macs, which I guess is fine from a security standpoint&#8230; BUT there isn&#8217;t even an option to enable it. I want to be able to see\/access my iPhone <em>immediately<\/em> as soon as the Mac detects it. <em>DataCase<\/em> does this flawlessly, <em>Air Sharing<\/em> on the other hand; you&#8217;d have to manually connect to it all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, <em>Datacase<\/em> shows you information realtime when it detects files being transferred from the computer to the device. This is extremely useful when you&#8217;re trying to see the status of the transfer from the mobile device. With <em>Air Sharing,<\/em> you have to rely on the desktop to tell you how much files you&#8217;ve transferred, etc. because you sure as hell aren&#8217;t going to see anything in the application.<\/p>\n<p>Fifth, <em>DataCase<\/em> can make <em>multiple<\/em> shared volumes with <em>multiple<\/em> permissions;_ while not all people would really need this feature, just imagine: creating a volume that only you can access for some personal information (financial, etc. etc.) and another for general files which you can then immediately share with others.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, there are only two things <em>Air Sharing<\/em> has that I&#8217;d like incorporated to <em>DataCase:<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The cleanliness of <em>Air Sharing&#8217;s<\/em> interface<\/li>\n<li>The ability to have a scrollbar for PDF document previews <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_937_1('footnote_plugin_reference_937_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_937_1('footnote_plugin_reference_937_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_937_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">2 <\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_937_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Right now, DataCase only has page-up\/down buttons&#8230; its nice to be able to scrub along a huge PDF document.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_937_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_937_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script><\/li>\n<\/ol><div class=\"speaker-mute footnotes_reference_container\"> <div class=\"footnote_container_prepare\"><p><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_label pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_937_1();\">Notes<\/span><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button\" style=\"display: none;\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_937_1();\">[<a id=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_937_1\">+<\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div id=\"footnote_references_container_937_1\" style=\"\"><table class=\"footnotes_table footnote-reference-container\"><caption class=\"accessibility\">Notes<\/caption> <tbody> \r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_937_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_937_1_1');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_937_1_1\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8673;<\/span>1<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Which is the case for all iPhone apps you purchase<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_937_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_937_1_2');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_937_1_2\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8673;<\/span>2<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Right now, DataCase only has page-up\/down buttons&#8230; its nice to be able to scrub along a huge PDF document.<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n <\/tbody> <\/table> <\/div><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function footnote_expand_reference_container_937_1() { jQuery('#footnote_references_container_937_1').show(); jQuery('#footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_937_1').text('\u2212'); } function footnote_collapse_reference_container_937_1() { jQuery('#footnote_references_container_937_1').hide(); jQuery('#footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_937_1').text('+'); } function footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_937_1() { if (jQuery('#footnote_references_container_937_1').is(':hidden')) { footnote_expand_reference_container_937_1(); } else { footnote_collapse_reference_container_937_1(); } } function footnote_moveToReference_937_1(p_str_TargetID) { footnote_expand_reference_container_937_1(); var l_obj_Target = jQuery('#' + p_str_TargetID); if (l_obj_Target.length) { jQuery( 'html, body' ).delay( 0 ); jQuery('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: l_obj_Target.offset().top - window.innerHeight * 0.2 }, 380); } } function footnote_moveToAnchor_937_1(p_str_TargetID) { footnote_expand_reference_container_937_1(); var l_obj_Target = jQuery('#' + p_str_TargetID); if (l_obj_Target.length) { jQuery( 'html, body' ).delay( 0 ); jQuery('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: l_obj_Target.offset().top - window.innerHeight * 0.2 }, 380); } }<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty much useless for most people, but I feel DataCase, the iPhone file storage application, is being sorely misrepresented. For some reason, Air Sharing is touted to be the best choice and I always wonderd why. Well, I just found out that I had already purchased Air Sharing when it was new (I &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/21\/datacase-vs-air-sharing\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DataCase vs Air Sharing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}