Air Sharing
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Air Sharing and Air Sharing Pro are file sharing and document viewing applications for the iPhone OS
IPhone OS
iOS is Apple's mobile operating system. Originally developed for the iPhone, it has since been extended to support other Apple, Inc. devices such as the iPod Touch, iPad, and Apple TV. Apple, Inc. does not license iOS for installation on third-party hardware...

. With the application a user can mount the iPhone hard drive over wireless internet to a computer and drag and drop files. Users can also view files and manage files on the iphone in many popular formats. On loading the application on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad a view shows files saved in the software. An icon on the bottom shows an IP Address
IP address
An Internet Protocol address is a numerical label assigned to each device participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing...

 and Apple Bonjour address. On entering one of these into the address bar of a Web browser a simple HTML
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

 based interface is shown, where files can be downloaded and uploaded. Air sharing can also be mapped as a network drive using WebDAV
WebDAV
Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning is a set of methods based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that facilitates collaboration between users in editing and managing documents and files stored on World Wide Web servers...

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In 2008, Air Sharing received the "Editor's Choice Award" from PCMag.com and the "Most Useful App" award from Macworld.com.
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