As many of you know, exporting files from Apple’s Keynote presentation software in iPad can be a real pain. Especially if the files are large– because email clients and iPad tend to barf on files any larger than a couple Mbs. And, my presentations are typically at least 10Mbs, so the only solution has been tethering my iPad to a PC, waiting the 30-90 minutes for it to sync and update, then copying the Keynote file to my DropBox on my PC.
Bummer– way too lengthy a process for a simple way to share a Keynote presentation with a colleague. After some research, I came across DropDav.com, which could map my DropBox account to a WebDav address, which Keynote (and all Apple iPad apps) have a file option for. So, I started to use it, as did obviously many others, and the eventual solution to the ‘too many users’ problem resolved itself when DropDav started to charge everyone five bucks per month for their service. Seeing how I may use their service once each month, I really didn’t want to pay their fee. A bit of Google sleuthing and I arrived at SMEStorage.com and found their CloudDav product. You can download it directly from the iPad AppStore for a one time fee of five bucks. After a setup, you can then use it to transfer data to and from DropBox in Keynote, Pages and other Apple iPad apps. Super!
Plus, they have a whole lot more as well. Definitely worth checking out!
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