WelcomeToYourMac lets you easily access the files and media on your Mac from any web browser, and many of the features are designed specifically for your iPhone. WelcomeToYourMac is open source, so anyone can contribute, and is based initially on Nicholas Jitkoff’s (creator of Quicksilver) Telekinesis project (thanks guys!).
You can find more information at our Google Code site: http://code.google.com/p/welcometoyourmac/
Click here to find out more about WelcomeToYourMac’s features.
WelcomeToYourMac uses other open source projects too.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Frank Lowney // Dec 7, 2008 at 1:50 pm
As an educator researching mobileEducation, I find this a very exciting project. It would seem that this approach could easily be adapted to the needs of faculty who want to share files with students via mobileSafari and other web browsers.
I suppose that this variant would be called something like “Welcome to My Mac.” It would enable my students to view files that I make available to them on my Mac. I’d want to maintain several p/w-protected folders for various different classes plus one Public folder that anyone with the address could access.
Is this too far afield for this project?
2 Frank Lowney // Dec 7, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Oops! It seems that viewing files on an iPhone or iPod touch is a problem since downloading files is not allowed.
3 adam // Dec 8, 2008 at 1:07 am
@Frank
That’ll be fixed soon - the problem is that the connection from the iPhone to WTYM is 100% encrypted, and the iPhone doesn’t stream encrypted media.
I’ll release an update soon that will allow streaming your media unencrypted from your computer, so you can see it on your iPhone.
Stay tuned!
4 adam // Dec 8, 2008 at 1:09 am
also - in regards to your first question - that’s absolutely within scope for WTYM. I’ll put password folder access on my todo list.
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