Have any handy tricks for Avatron Products? Post em here. http://www.avatron.com/support/list.php?29 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:31:52 -0700 Phorum 5.2.8 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,9023,9023#msg-9023 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,9023,9023#msg-9023
This also works by cable.]]> TiagoBral Tips and Tricks Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:45:55 -0700 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,8580,8580#msg-8580 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,8580,8580#msg-8580
Configuring CoreFTP
Download and install CoreFTP’s mini SFTP server from their website at http://www.coreftp.com/server/download/msftpsrvr.exe

• Fill in the user and password fields with a usernamd and password of your choice.
• Set the port field to 22.
• Set the Root Path field to a directory you want to have access to. For simplicities sake, setting it to C:\ or the lterr of your main drive will give you access to that entire drive.

Now that you’ve got the server up and running you should be able to connect to it from Air Sharing Pro. But first you need to find out your computer’s IP address. The easiest way to do this is to get a Command Prompt window open and then type: ipconfig



Then launch Air Sharing Pro and tap the Servers button in the upper left corner and then tap Edit in the upper right corner.

Tap the '+' in the upper left corner and choose SSH.

In the URL field enter the IP address of your PC. If you want the Server connection to automatically remember your username and password, enter it now. Similarly, if you want to have a description for the server connection now is the time to enter that.

]]> elliot Tips and Tricks Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:27:40 -0700 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,8577,8577#msg-8577 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,8577,8577#msg-8577 Remote Login option. To enable this open the System Preferences application.

Click on the Sharing icon to bring up the Sharing preferences screen.


Now that you have Remote Login configured you should be able to connect to it from Air Sharing Pro. But first you need to find out your computer's IP address. The easiest way to do this is to look to just look at the instructions to the right of the image above. Where it says "To log in to this computer...". Everything after the @ symbol is the IP address. In the above example the IP address is 10.0.1.45

Now launch Air Sharing Pro on your iPhone and tap the Servers button in the upper left corner and then tap Edit in the upper right corner.

Tap the '+' button in the upper left corner and choose SSH.

In the URL field enter the IP address of your Mac. If you want the Server connection to automatically remember you username and password, enter it now. Similarly, if you want to have a description for the server connection now is the time to enter that.

]]> elliot Tips and Tricks Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:38:02 -0700 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,7796,7796#msg-7796 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,7796,7796#msg-7796
This is how I access my scripts.....(though you could just keep it on your desktop, or anywhere else for that matter...)


And this is what the script looks like in action....more or less....this is a example only (note the ipod a.k.a Air Sharing address)


If you like the look of this, and are reasonably handy with Script Editor, here is a copy of my code:
http://brightnight.tv/AS/TIP4/Kommand_v1.0.zip

Feel free to download and edit the script to suit your own network...

cheers
Flash!

PS. I have supplied some notes in the script, so even a novice scripter should be able to work it out. However if you have any questions regarding the script, don't bug the Avatron support team coz they didn't write it!! ;) Email or PM me if you like :D]]> Flash! Tips and Tricks Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:30:31 -0700 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,7532,7532#msg-7532 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,7532,7532#msg-7532 TiagoBral Tips and Tricks Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:07:08 -0700 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,7169,7169#msg-7169 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,7169,7169#msg-7169
From my own experience, I loaded 3.0 and then pretty much walked out the door to work. The first thing I noticed as I walked up the street was that "shake to shuffle" was active and my ipod kept changing tracks! But throughout the day as I checked everything out it seemed that some things were missing, like copy/paste, spotlight and a few others. Hmm very strange? When I did the update, iTunes took a very very long time about it - about 45 minutes to an hour, not counting the time taken to download the update! Later that day I did another sync which took just a few minutes, and after that everything was good.

I reckon that iTunes sometimes does not do the best job at updating software. It *should* do it with no problems but a quick look around the internet will tell ypu that 5% of users are having, or had problems. (note that when any comparisons or statistics are quoted, 16.3% of the time the percentage is a made up number! (:P) ) On the one hand, for Apple, a few percent of however-many-million-ipods-are-out-there is not too bad. But if you're one of the 5%........bummer.

Solutions? Well nothing specifically, but some good practices are:

1) backup your iphone before any major updates (iTunes will also do a backup before the update, but I suggest that you do your own update first!)

2) in the case of Airsharing or any other app that stores data which you can access from your computer - use the computer to backup all your files (e.g. copy the contents of your Airsharing folder to your mac or pc. Email all your Notes to yourself, I use iDB Datamaster.app which has a backup facility so I back that up, ...etc If there is anything at all you can backup without iTunes then do so)

3) just coz it bears repeating, backup your data! It does not really matter what happens to your ipod/iphone...it can crash, not boot, give you funny icons...whatever. Just as long as your data is OK ;)

4) reboot your ipod/iphone - it's amazing what problems can be solved by a reboot!

5) If after the update you are experiencing "quirks" then sync and sync again. And then maybe sync one more time for luck. (maybe the software did not 'stick' the first time around?)

6) restore your ipod to a previously saved (iTunes) backup

7) reset your ipod to factory settings

8) once you've covered all of the above, if software "x" is not working then it probably really is a fault that needs reporting to the software developer.

9) please post all your "faulty" iphones to Flash! in Sydney Australia.....I really want to update my 1st generation iPod Touch (:P) (:P)


Also note that it is always "best practice" to reboot your ipod immediately after downloading any new apps]]> Flash! Tips and Tricks Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:00:26 -0700 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,7161,7161#msg-7161 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,7161,7161#msg-7161
Transmit
Simply click on the 'Connect' tab and enter your iPhone's IP address (which is shown to you in the Air Sharing app), then select the WebDAV protocol and enter 8080 in the port field and press 'Connect'



Cyberduck Method A
Open Cyberduck, click on the 'Bonjour' button and double-click on your iPhone's name. How easy is that!


Cyberduck Method B
Open Cyberduck and click on 'Open Connection', then from the drop-down menu select the WebDAV (web-based) protocol. Enter your iPhone's IP address into the server field and 8080 into the port field then press 'Connect'.



So there you have it - connecting a Mac to Air Sharing using an FTP client!]]> Jash Tips and Tricks Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:23:23 -0700 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,6982,6982#msg-6982 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,6982,6982#msg-6982
Start moving or closing your Finder windows. Buried under one of them will be the small 'Disconnect now' window. Click OK and you are all sorted. Its happened to me a couple of times

cheers
bruce]]> bbowden Tips and Tricks Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:18:38 -0700 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,6946,6946#msg-6946 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,6946,6946#msg-6946
Your milage may vary depending on your individual circumstances! (and in fact everything worked perfectly while I was trying to get the screenshots to post into this message....so you never know....)



Does this look like a familiar experience?

1) You've connected to your iPod and started copying a file....It looks good, 785MB seems like it will take about two minutes:


2) Now it is "closing the file"


3) Suddenly your iPod disconnects:


4) Followed by an "error -36" message


5) And finally all you have on the iPod is a zero MB file!



So what is going on???

Well it seems to be a "feature" of Finder (for both Leopard and Tiger versions) that it makes a copy of the file before it starts transferring. Finder does not even commence transferring the file until around the time that you get the "(Closing File) - Please wait...." message. If the file is upwards of 700MB then it is going to take a good ten minutes or more to "close the file"

Why do you get the iPod disconnected message? I have no idea, all I know is that it is not very helpful to have it disconnect at this point! :X

As a result of the disconnect, you get an error -36 and obviously because everything failed you get a 0MB junk file on your iPod.

This scenario can be very frustrating to say the least. It is not a consistant fault, and it is nothing to do with Air Shaing as such (Finder has this issue with all WebDav servers) And the problem is made worse if your Mac is on a wifi network and the file you are attempting to transfer is on a network drive. First the file is copied to your Mac over wifi, so say 10-15 minutes, and then it has to copy it over to your iPod so there's another 10-15 minutes. If at the end of that half hour or so the transfer is not successful, you would be fully justified in putting your fist through the screen and throwing your iPod accross the room! :X

OK, that might be a slight exaggeration 8-)


What's the fix?

Actually it's quite simple - use a web browser instead! With all of my testing of large file transfers on a Mac, using a browser has never failed :) So my recommendation is that for any files larger than 50MB, don't use Finder - use your favourite web browser.



The only down-side to the browser method is that you don't get any real indication of progress. Look at your status bar at the bottom of your browser (well, most browsers) and you will see things like: "Waiting for ipod.local" and then "Done" which is all the indicators you'll be able to see. Nevertheless it does work, and is a lot less frustrating than wonding if Finder is going to be successful this time or not.

cheers
Flash!]]> Flash! Tips and Tricks Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:13:36 -0700 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,6908,6908#msg-6908 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,6908,6908#msg-6908 http://John's iPod.local:8080 it will not work. This is because of the space between "John's" and "iPod", not to mention the apostrophe in "John's"

Simply put, browsers do not accept spaces or special characters in the address bar.

You *could* get around this by typing the URL codes for the special characters e.g. http://John%2Cs%20iPod.local:8080

But the simplest and best solution is to name your iPod with a simple one-word name e.g. "JohniPod" = http://JohniPod.local:8080

Or you could come up with a more creative name. My ipod is called "Fuwa" which means "toy" in chinese ;-) Therefore the address for my iPod is http://Fuwa.local:8080

You should use the single-word-name principle for the network name of all computers on your network.

I hope this little tip helps :D]]> Flash! Tips and Tricks Sat, 30 May 2009 22:59:04 -0700 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,6688,6688#msg-6688 http://www.avatron.com/support/read.php?29,6688,6688#msg-6688
Mac

• Connect to Air Sharing or Air Sharing Pro through the Finder the normal way using your iPod or iPhone's Bonjour name.
• The connected server should then show up on the Desktop (If it doesn't go to Finder>Preferences and make sure the box next to Connected servers is checked).
• Right-click or Control-click on your iPhone/iPod and choose Make Alias (may say Create Alias in 10.4)
• You now have an alias to your iPhone/iPod that you can put wherever is most convenient. You can even drag it into your dock so as not to clutter your desktop.

Windows XP

If you were able to successfully patch Windows XP and aren't using NetDrive or some other third party utility to connect then when you create a Network Place to your iPhone/iPod it should automatically get saved to your Network Places and you should be all set.

Windows Vista

• Map a Network Drive to your iPod/iPhone
• It should show up under Computer. Right-click on it and choose Create shortcut
• The shortcut will get saved to your Desktop. Put it wherever is most convenient.
• To reconnect right-click on the shortcut and choose Open folder location. You may get prompted with an error message about deleting the shortcut. Just say no. The connection should be made regardless.

To reconnect right-click on the shortcut and choose Open folder location. You may get prompted with an error message about deleting the shortcut. Just say no. The connection should be made regardless.
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One of the things I have to use a lot are the (not-available-to-the-general-public) Apple hardware service manuals for repairing the various Macs I receive. These are PDF files that range from as small as 14MB to as large as 60MB and more, with hundreds of pages.

My iPod Touch just can't directly handle the size of that file. It's PDF viewer will likely choke on it, especially since the files contain fairly high-res photos of the systems.

So, I had an idea. Convert the PDF into more digestible pictures...JPEG files, then transfer them to the iPod with Air Sharing. Doing this should be a good workaround for those that need to read large files of this type.

The first thing you need to do is convert each PDF page into a JPEG picture. That's cool. You have a tool to do it in Mac OS X Leopard: Automator.

(Needless to say, this isn't a tutorial on using this powerful tool, but the steps here should get you by.)

1. Launch Automator.
2. From the Files and Folders actions on the left side of the Automator window, drag the item "Ask for Finder items" to the right side of the Automator window. Each item you drag there will run that specific action, starting with the top-most item.
3. From the PDF actions, drag the item "Render PDF Pages as Images" to the right side of the Automator window. In this action, there are settings you can change. You should reduce the DPI to as low as possible (150 or less) and use the best compression you can to avoid creating large image files.
4. From the Files and Folders actions on the left side of the Automator window, drag the item "Rename Finder items" to the right side of the Automator window. Change the pop-up to "Make Sequential." Set the Add Number setting to whatever suits you. If you've got a lot of files, you might select the "new nane" button and enter "Page" in the field next to it. Change whether the number will appear in the file before or after, what separators there are, the starting number, and the digit width. For me, my files are hundreds of pages, and using only a single digit will make them list weirdly in the Finder. So I set the digit length to three so that trailing zeroes keep the page order as it should be.
5. Last, from the Files and Folders actions on the left side of the Automator window, drag the item "New Folder" to the right side of the Automator window. You can give a generic name here, then rename the folder yourself in the Finder.
6. Click the File menu and choose Save. Then, test out your Automator script by pressing the Run button at the upper right of the Automator window.

The first thing you'll see is a file dialog. That's what's supposed to happen: Automator is asking "What file do you want to convert?" Choose the PDF file, and click OK. From here, the process takes a while, depending on the number of pages and the size of the pages you are converting. To watch the progress of each script, click on the View menu and choose Log. Once it's all done, a folder will appear where you've told the script to create it (the default location was "Desktop" for me).

If you liked the script, you can save it as an application in Mac OS X that you can open later without Automator. Just choose File->Save As, then save the file as an Application using the pop-up menu in the Save dialog.

To use your converted JPEGs with Air Sharing, you can rename the new folder to match your subject, connect to your iPhone/iTouch with Connect to Server, and then drag them to the Air Sharing Finder window to where you want it to be.

BUT--copying numerous and/or large files to your handheld is not a good idea on slow networks. I learned the hard way as the Finder stalled when the connection was too weak. I couldn't copy a 361-item file folder all at once, and I had to restart the Mac because the Finder was pooched and wouldn't reset.

So, here's the workaround for that.

1. Use Avatron's guide to create an ad-hoc network (see the FAQ in this forum).
2. Open the Settings app on your iPhone/iTouch and select the ad-hoc network you made from your Mac.
3. Open Air Sharing on your handheld.
4. Open your connection to your handheld from your Mac. (Here is where using Bonjour has its benefits. If you use a Bonjour name, you don't have to find out what the ad-hoc IP address is, and if you use your normal network again, you won't have to change the IP, only adjust the network settings on each device.)

Now you can take full advantage of the AirPort network connection, which moves at about .5MB/sec in my tests. Snappy. I've not lost a file or hung the Mac with ad-hoc mode.

Hopefully that's useful for those of you that must carry that large PDF with you. For me, it beats lugging my MacBook around or printing a large manual.

Windows and Linux users may have to go the manual way to convert the PDFs, but hey, you get what you pay for, sadly. :)]]> Spencerian Tips and Tricks Fri, 22 May 2009 22:30:33 -0700