PE_5 iPad file transfer

Since I feel like I have Buzz PS3 RILS together, I want to post about my experience last night on an airplane while needing to work on my literature review.

I had my laptop, my iPad and I also have a Verizon MiFi which some of you may know what it is. It's a tiny credit card sized wireless router that can share up to 5 devices. I keep it in my pocket when I travel. Sometimes finding a hot spot is difficult or buying one in a hotel is very expensive. Also, I have more than one device that needs wireless, laptop, my iPad and sometimes my phone. A few years ago, I used to travel with a wireless router that I would hook up to the hotel room modem. I would buy 1 connection at the hotel share it with my other devices from my portable wireless router. But now, so many hotels have wireless only and don't have ethernet ports so I can't use my old toy. The MiFi is much better, it's both a wireless access to the internet and a wireless router. Unbelievable. My iPad does have 3G but when it came time to activate it and pay $59 a month to ATT for more shoddy service, I thought, there's got to be a better solution. I did some research and chose the MiFi. It's also $59 a month BUT, like I said, it can share up to 5 devices and if I am in a cab or a place where there's no wireless, this thing is a lifesaver. It's fast and a lot better than paying $12.95 a day at a hotel.

So last night, I'm on the plane and I had my laptop and my iPad and I had a 3 1/2 hour flight to Houston and I knew that my laptop battery was not going to last but maybe 2 hours. So, before the flight took off I bought an iPad app called Goodreader. After the plane took off, I could use my MiFi (not to get internet because we're in mid-air) BUT I could use the MiFi to create a local network for my devices. The Goodreader app was $2.99 and is so great and simple. You open the Goodreader App on the iPad and then open a new page on a browser on my laptop and use Bonjour (which see the iPad on the local network) and that takes you to http://GFS-iPad.local.8080 and connects directly to the iPad. That browser page gives you a button to upload anything. You can see in this screenshot how my laptop is using Goodreader to see what files I have sent to my iPad.





So, I worked on my laptop until it was almost out of juice and then I used Goodreader, uploaded the PDF's that I was using for references and I also uploaded my Literature review Word document to the iPad.

The Word document, I opened in Pages on my iPad and kept on writing. When I got home about 10PM, I plugged in my laptop and used Goodreader to send the edited Literature review back to my laptop, so I could continue writing on my laptop.

It was an interesting combination of devices and apps to make the most of my writing time and battery power last night. I thought this made for an interesting post of practical experience.