TouchFS

With TouchFS running on your iPhone (or iPod Touch), your computer can see your iPhone as a network share–a WebDAV share to be precise. If you can connect to a WebDAV share with your operating system, you can connect to your iPhone w/TouchFS.

Most current OS's like Mac OS X, Windows XP (not so current) and Windows Vista have built in ability to connect to WebDAV shares. Even if your OS doesn't have support built in, there's many free utilities available that you can use as well.

Along with providing a way for you to transfer files to and from your iPhone or iPod Touch, TouchFS also allows you to browse through the files you've stored and view certain file types directly on your iPhone screen.

Currently supported file types for viewing are:

• PDF Files (except password protected files and PDF files containing forms to fill out)
• Office Files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• iWork Files (Numbers, Pages & Keynote when saved with previews)
• Text Files. Any file that doesn't have a viewer available will be opened as text where possible. Files don't have to have a .txt extension either. TouchFS will also open many types of source code files used in web and software development.
• HTML Files. You can save web pages or whole local web sites directly to your iPhone and view them offline. As long as your links are setup correctly, you'll even be able to navigate from one page to another. (Forward/Back navigation work as well)

  If your pages contain links to images and style sheets available on a server, they will be loaded if your iPhone's network connection is available.

• Images. png, jpg, gif, bmp, tiff (only the first page of multi page tiffs) are all supported.

New file types will be added as updates become available.

Windows XP Professional (at least SP2) and Mac OS X should have no problems connecting as long as your network is functioning properly.

Your iPhone or iPod Touch will need to be connected to your home network via the iPhone's WiFi connection. This will not work if your iPhone is on the cellular network, or if your home network does not have WiFi available.

The computer you want to connect to your iPhone doesn't need to be connected to your network via WiFi, but your network does need a WiFi access point available so your iPhone or iPod Touch can use it to join your network.

If your computer isn't running an OS with "out of the box" support, there's still a few methods available that should allow you to connect and transfer files.

Windows

First off, for Windows XP Home and Windows Vista, there's a free patch available from Microsoft called the Software Update for Web Folders (KB907306).

From the Microsoft article:

This download enables you to update the Web Folders component in Microsoft Windows operating systems, and provides additional functionality.

The article describes the Software Update for Web Folders that is dated March 15, 2007. This update fixes various issues that occur when you use Web folders from your client computer to connect to a server that supports Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV). Additionally, this update includes security enhancements to Web folders.

Linux w/Konqueror

If you're running Linux and using Konqueror as your file and web browser, you should be able to use TouchFS out of the box too...but instead of entering an http:// address, make sure you use webdav:// like so:

webdav://192.168.0.7:8080/

Each iPhone and iPod Touch has a unique identifier associated w/it. To find yours, try the following.

Locating a Unique Device ID with iTunes 7.7 or later

To find your device’s UDID you can use iTunes 7.7. or later. To do this, connect your device to your Mac and launch iTunes. In iTunes, select your device in the 'Devices' section and navigate to the Summary tab. Click on the Serial Number label to reveal the Identifier field and the 40 character UDID. Press Command/Ctrl+C to copy the UDID to your clipboard.

Locating a Unique Device ID with Xcode

Alternatively, you can also find your device’s UDID with Xcode. Simply connect your device to your Mac and open Xcode. In Xcode, navigate to the 'Window' drop down menu and select 'Organizer'. The 40 hex character string in the Identifier field is your device’s UDID. Team Members should send this string to their Team Admins for input into the Program Portal.