What can be better to do on the tube than to kill some time reading manuals or books? Of course in IT quite a lot of that stuff comes as PDFs or other non-paper formats, so good eBook reader or an app for whatever terminal you have is an advantage.
During one of the DC4420 meetings one of the guys gave a very good recommendation for an iPhone app that copes very well with PDFs and some other formats. The app is called Good Reader and I have to say, it's really good (for what I need it to do).
Usually the problem is how to deliver the files of interest to the reder. You want to be able to read when off-line and have flexibility in delivery methods of course. Here is the thing that sold me to the Good Reader - you can upload the files over wifi directly to the iPhone, using nothing more than a web browser. Yes - the app functions as a web server to do it! Just to make sure it doesn't turn your phone into public web server, you have to confirm that you want to allow the given IP to connect and you get that question every time you turn the wifi upload option on.
During one of the DC4420 meetings one of the guys gave a very good recommendation for an iPhone app that copes very well with PDFs and some other formats. The app is called Good Reader and I have to say, it's really good (for what I need it to do).
Usually the problem is how to deliver the files of interest to the reder. You want to be able to read when off-line and have flexibility in delivery methods of course. Here is the thing that sold me to the Good Reader - you can upload the files over wifi directly to the iPhone, using nothing more than a web browser. Yes - the app functions as a web server to do it! Just to make sure it doesn't turn your phone into public web server, you have to confirm that you want to allow the given IP to connect and you get that question every time you turn the wifi upload option on.
The web interface is very simple but and does what is says - you can create directories and upload files - that's all you really need.
This is of course just the local method of doing it and it's not all of what Good Reader can do to get the content for you. Nice feature is that you can save a web page using Download option or connect to another server to get your files and here's another nice thing... you get a selection of popular e-mail providers, general POP/IMAP access, iDisk, Google Docs, Dropbox, WebDav, FTP and others. To be fair - that looks very good!
I think I've finally found an app for proper RTFM on the move and it came at the very reasonable price of £0.59.
This is of course just the local method of doing it and it's not all of what Good Reader can do to get the content for you. Nice feature is that you can save a web page using Download option or connect to another server to get your files and here's another nice thing... you get a selection of popular e-mail providers, general POP/IMAP access, iDisk, Google Docs, Dropbox, WebDav, FTP and others. To be fair - that looks very good!
I think I've finally found an app for proper RTFM on the move and it came at the very reasonable price of £0.59.
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