Cheers! Will check this out. I'm always looking for apps where I can be
more productive on my iOS devices even if they involve use of a desktop
or laptop pc or mac.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 01/06/2014 12:42, Joseph FreeTech wrote:
Hi all,
I just installed a great little iOS productivity app called TextSync. This
app allows you to type whatever you want on your Windows computer and have
the text instantly show on your iDevice. You can send text from your iPod or
iPhone with or without your iDevice being attached to your computer and you
do not need iTunes running.
Here's how you use this app. You type in a url into the Run dialogue of your
Windows computer (you only have to do this once and save the path as a
shortcut on your desktop etc). You are then presented with a very simple and
easy to use screen with a single edit field. You type in your message into
the edit field then down arro to a send button, and your text will
instantaneously show on the TextSync app on your iOS device. You can now use
the "Copy" button in the TextSync app to copy the text to the iOS clipboard
and move the text into any other app. I launched Internet Explorer on my
Windows desktop computer and copied a Wikipedia article with 137,000
characters and pasted in the desktop version of the TextSync edit field, and
it took only a couple of seconds for the text to be copied to my iPod--it is
definitely a fast little app.
Again, it is important to Note that your iDevice does not have to be
physically connected to your desktop at all. <Nice!>.
Since I want to be able to fill my iPod with very important private
information, I contacted the app developer to inquire about the security of
his app. Here is his reply/explanation:
"Hello,
The security is ensured by P2P direct link via IP, thus there is no chance
to perform a mid-person attack (which happens when you attempt to connect to
a server by entering domain name, which need DNS servers to resolve the IP
address).
The direct link need no DNS server, and all your data stream remains on the
local network, not over the Internet.
You can rely on the Wi-Fi connection."
Here is the link where you can read up on this app including a very good
audio podcast on how to use this app.
http://www.applevis.com/apps/ios/productivity/textsync-typing-computer
Here is the link to the apps store:
TextSync - Typing from computer on the App Store on iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textsync-typing-from-computer/id866535807?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D8
Oh yeah, though this app is $3 I'm using the free version, after the initial
ad when starting the app, the additional very small ads at the bottom of the
screen don't interfere with the use of this app at all. For $3, this is a
great buy and sure to be one of my most used apps when I make the purchase.
Joseph
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