Unfortunatly, iAppblog hasn’t been updated as it has been recently. This is mostly down to my fault (and Apple). I won’t give you all the information but basically a software update killed both my iMac and my Air and my other computers didn’t have the bare essentials. Basically, it frazzled my hard drive(s). I’m slowly getting running again and iApp is also getting excited due to the 2.0 upgrade.

For being such an idiot and downloading the wrong software update i’m going to dish out 10 Dropbox invites (maybe more, depends on the circulation of the 10) to the first 10 people that reply with their:

1. Email address (your invitation will be sent here)

2. Website (I’m a web crawler (!!) )

Invitations will be sent out within 48 hours or less (probably within the first 20 minutes) and if you don’t receive one please contact us.

Good luck!

Rating: 4/5

General Info: As you may have seen in our previous post, Koingo Software recently bought out an app called Swift Share, and I’m here to give you my thoughts on it! My first impression on the software are good, plenty of different tools to use, but still plenty of advice (there is a special help feature at the bottom which explains where everything is). I could easily find my way around, easily setting up one Windows Shared folder (I also set up a Mac one). Everything looked fine, it was telling me what IP address I had to use to connect, but as soon as I tried to connect from my PC, nothing happened, where previously with mac OSX’s built in tool it would have asked me for a username and password. Time to try again. I looked in the System Prefs and decided to connect using the IP address under Windows Sharing, as I had expected, up comes my Shared Folder.

So, although it tried to make me connect to the wrong server at first, I did get my sharing folder set up. The main reason for using this software would be to set up a special folder for sharing, whilst not exposing the whole of your home folder, but if you don’t mind exposing your home folder, you have al the tools built in.

Site: http://www.koingosw.com/

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The makers of Mac Pilot, Koingo Software, have released a new application called Swift Share. It manages Mac and Windows shares over your local network.

“Koingo Software is proud to announce a new member to our family of products: Swift Share!
Swift Share is a share points and file server management tool for Mac OS X. Available for a free 15 day trial, Swift Share can later be purchased for a small $19.95 shareware registration fee.

Share points are points across the network at which remote users can access your files. Mac OS X gives you one default share point: your home directory. However, if you’re anywhere but home, you won’t want to be giving everyone access to your entire home directory! Using Swift Share, choose only which folders you want to share and which users have access.”

I will try to have a review of Swift Share up this week. You can learn more about it by clicking here.

This Press Release was brought to us by A Media Partner of ours, prMac, which we told you earlier this month, and that we have become a Media Partner of theirs, and we have a link under Media Partners on their site.