MyPhoneDesktop Links Your Computer and iDevice the Way Apple Should Have

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apple-should-have?skyline=true&s=i


Despite its unwieldy name and its unforgiving website, myPhoneDesktop is a pretty
smooth operator. You just copy something to your clipboard on your computer—a phone
number, a scrap of text, a URL, an image—and the desktop app will beam it over WiFi
or 3G to your device of choice. It's a quick, smart way to dial a phone number you
encounter on the net, zap a map from your browser to your iPhone as you go out the
door, or push a website over to your iPad for further perusal. To be fair, it's not
nearly as ambitious as the stuff Google was showing off—you can't, say, buy songs or
apps and send them to your phone—but myPhoneDesktop is here now, and it works well.

Best of all, things go where they're supposed to. When I copied YouTube links, they
opened in the native YouTube app; crazy-long Google maps links opened in the Maps
app; and images were instantly saved in my iPad's photo album. Simply put, this is
how computers and mobile devices should interact—seamlessly. Everything you send has
to go through myPhoneDesktop's app, which means that the app has to open, log you in,
and then process the image/link/whatever you just beamed to it, but it's only a
hiccup compared to the ordeal of syncing a new iPad background image via iTunes, or
even compared to the workaround of emailing yourself the image.

Sweetening the deal, push notifications give you the option to check your beamed
material that very second or let it collect in the app where you can check it out
later.

GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a
virtual filesystem around your Google Mail account,
allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium.
GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your
Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve
files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside
Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive
to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you
can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.

Ever since Google started to offer users a Gmail e-mail
account, which includes storage space of 6000 megabytes,
you have had plenty of storage space but not a lot to fill
it up with. With GMail Drive you can easily copy files to
your Google Mail Account and retrieve them again.
When you create a new file using GMail Drive, it generates
an e-mail and posts it to your account. The e-mail appears
in your normal Inbox folder, and the file is attached as
an e-mail attachment. GMail Drive periodically checks your
mail account (using the Gmail search function) to see if
new files have arrived and to rebuild the directory
structures. But basically GMail Drive acts as any other
hard-drive installed on your computer.
You can copy files to and from the GMail Drive folder
simply by using drag'n'drop like you're used to with the
normal Explorer folders.

Because the Gmail files will clutter up your Inbox folder,
you may wish to create a filter in Gmail to automatically
move the files (prefixed with the GMAILFS letters in the
subject) to your archived mail folder.


26 May 2010 update: Fixed a login problem on Win XP. Now
includes a Windows 64-bit version, and FileOpen dialog
support has returned. Remember to reboot Windows after
installation.

Installation Requirements

Internet Explorer 5 or better
Installation Guide

Extract the ZIP file to a temporary folder.
Run the Setup application.

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The device is said to be based on the 4th generation iPhone, right down to the
internals, including the A4 processor. The device will have 16GB of storage and 1080p
HD output. The new Apple TV will be quite small, being roughly the same size as the
4th generation iPhone, without a touch screen, and will have minimal ports - power and
(HDMI?) video output.

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