OwnCloud offers a novel service to access, sync and share your own data on a server of your choosing, that means on your own private cloud / iCloud. OwnCloud plays with the threads of clouds services with unknown places where your data is stored. Sounds interesting, but is, on the… Read More »ownCloud – Really A Safe And Secure Private Cloud and iCloud Alternative?
Cubby is a brand new cloud service (a LogMeIn service). Up to now it is still a beta, you have to request an invitation per Email. Only a limited number of participants per day gets an invitation. It took around 1-2 days till I got the invite. But what can… Read More »Cubby – Cloud Service and Peer-To-Peer Service For Your ‘Private iCloud’
Update: The Best File Manager And FTP Apps for iPhone And iPad (Review) Update: The 3 Best FTP Apps For iPhone And iPad: File Explorer, iStorage And Documents By Readdle Do you face the problem which iOS explorer you should choose? There is a huge number of so-called NAS, FTP, Cloud… Read More »The Best FTP – NAS – ‘Private iCloud’ Apps For iPad And iPhone
Update: iStorage 2 HD 2.4: Universal File Manager and FTP App for iPhone and iPad In contrast to that I wrote some days ago, FTP on the Go isn’t still the best app for managing my private iCloud / cloud to me. Yesterday I found something better: iStorage! There are… Read More »iStorage HD for iPad – A Terrific Tool for FTP / FTPS / SFTP, WebDav And Cloud Access
Yesterday I received the brand new Airport Express Base Station(3rd generation, MC414Z/A)! The main advantage in contrast to the precessor versions is an additional 100 MBit/s ethernet LAN port. Yes, it is not a 1GBit/s ethernet LAN port! In the first instance, I was somehow disappointed, but I checked the… Read More »My Apple Products, Status Quo June 14, 2012: New AirPort Express Station
FingerPrint automatically discovers all printers connected to your Mac or PC and makes them available to your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. For a fraction of the cost of a new printer, FingerPrint breathes new life into the printers you already own. Further more, no jailbreak or hack is needed.… Read More »FingerPrint 2.1 – How To AirPrint To Any Printer Without Any Hack
Did Microsoft downgrad your SkyDrive storage from 25 GB to 7 GB, too? Then read this! I’m using SkyDrive [Update: now it is called ‘OneDrive‘] for a long while, it was my very first cloud storage and I primarily used SkyDrive to share photos with my family and friends. And what was… Read More »SkyDrive: Getting Back Your Free 25 GB of Storage!
Update: PhotoSync 2.0 review I must admit that I undervalued PhotoSync (universal app for iPhone and iPad) for the first time some months ago. Photostream and iCloud were just released and I thought that Photosync was redundant. Further more, I was upset that the Windows companion was crushing all the time,… Read More »PhotoSync – A Versatile and Powerful Photo Syncing App
Hi folks, on May 17th I reported about connection problems of iMessage and facetime. In the mean time my friend was at my home with her iPad and we checked it out: factime and iMessage was working without any problem with my WiFi! For me it is the proof that… Read More »Update: Troubleshooting Facetime and iMessage Problem and Fix
Shrinking of the ebay summary page is really anoying. It seems to be a problem between Safari and ebay. Up to now I collected some acceptable solutions to be able again to see these ebay-pages in “normal” size. My personal favorite is number 2 because it is on the one… Read More »Troubleshooting Shrinking of Ebay Summary Page on iPad