iPhone App Review: MobileStudio

Hey guys, this is Mids in1 with an application review on Mobile Studio, which is an application on the iPhone that lets you manage your files. Um, it's actually pretty cool.

Um, when I say manage your files, it lets you FTP to your iPhone from your computer and place files on your iPhone. It doesn't let you access the root file system, just a directory that it creates; but it does let you put Word documents, video files, etc. on your iPhone. This is pretty cool.

Um, another great feature about Mobile Studio is that it can view PDF documents, regular Word documents, Pages documents, etc. Um, it also lets you create text files and other um documents. It also lets you create images and edit images in the audio files.

So let me just show you um, just um show you the icon. It’s this little folder with an hourglass on it or um, yeah, spyglass. So I'll zoom in there for you. So now I'll just open that up, um, and here it is. You can see right here I have all my files. Like um, you can scroll upside down. I have a lot of things in my root home directory. They call it a home directory even though it's not really your home directory.

Um, but I um back up our website to this, so um, yeah. There are a few buttons on the bottom, and if you click edit, um, you can click create, delete, move, copy, zip. This thing supports zip, and that's pretty cool. So right here, I'm creating a file. I can create a folder, a text file, an image file, or a sound file. I'm just going to create an image file and I'm going to say blank image right here.

Um, actually, there are a bunch of options, but blank is the one for me. I'll call it the W just for fun. Now I'll hit return. Okay, now I'll click done, done right up there. Um, so now I have this folder or this file called w.png, and if this comes up, it's blank. I can click edit and draw all over it, edit it around a little bit, and I'll click done.

Okay, so now I'm going to show you deletion because I don't want this file. I'll go up and click edit, then I'll check it off, and then I'll click delete. Okay, so that file's gone.

So um, another cool feature is you can edit properties of something, and as you can see here, it's actually the um media viewer, the property viewer. That's what I'm going to do. There's also a text editor, image editor, etc. And here for this thing, there's readable, writable, executable, just like on a normal Mac.

You can see when it was created, the owner of the file, the modify time, the group, the permissions in general 644 append only, um, and if the file's busy. You can just go into the last editor by doing that, and I just don't care.

So yeah, um, you can also—and this is a cool feature—you can see what photos you have in your photo library. By doing that, that's pretty cool. Um, I'll show you that in a second because your photos on your iPhone, just like these files, are actually files on your iPhone, just like on a regular cell phone.

So right here's a directory called 100 apple, and um that has all your camera stuff in it. If I'll just click that and wait for it to load—wait a second for it to load—okay, so there we go. Now, I'll just click um IMG; it doesn't matter really; these are all images on your phone.

I'll just click um back. Okay, now click done. Okay, so now um, that's the images directory on your um phone that this lets you see.

So this actually opens a few doors for you. Also, if you want to, you can click the um file sharing button right there, and it lets you set what FTP things can be viewed and stuff like that, and I think that's cool.

All over, this is a great application. I mean, the transfer speed is pretty slow, um, compared to a real computer, but it's fast compared to what you'd expect.

So all I really think they could do with this Mobile Studio application is ADD maybe a um an ability to create Word documents that are just PL old text. Anyway, another great feature that they could add would be um a little better image editor since I know that's possible.

Um, but as a programmer, I know how hard it would be to put fonts in Word documents, so you can't create Word documents. So tha...