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Files 1.4

Your documents in your pocket

Store and view files on your iPhone or iPod touch
Compatible with any Mac or PC

Learn more App Store $4.99

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Dec 4th 2009BBC Weather Widget 1.0 Released

Get your local weather forecast from the BBC, right in your Dashboard:

BBCWeather-1.0.wdgt.zip (requires OS X 10.5 or later)

Oct 15th 2009Indev acquires MiniMail

Indev Software announced today that it has acquired MiniMail, the popular plugin for Apple Mail, from Olive Toast Software. The acquisition assures the future development of MiniMail, including Snow Leopard compatibility.

MiniMail provides a convenient mini-window for viewing unread messages, allowing users to quickly check incoming messages and action them.

John Buckley is CEO of Olive Toast Software: "Indev has a proven history of developing quality Apple Mail plugins - they are an obvious choice to take MiniMail forward to Snow Leopard and beyond. The sale of MiniMail allows us to focus on our iPhone applications Files and Files lite."

Scott Morrison, president of Indev Software: "We're excited about adding MiniMail to our product line. We have been using it for a long time and we have worked to make our software compatible with MiniMail. Now that MiniMail is an Indev product, we can build even greater integration with our Mail Act-On and MailTags products and take the product in new directions."

Indev's immediate plans for MiniMail are to release a Snow Leopard compatibility upgrade before the end of October, to add further integration with MailTags and to ultimately provide innovative new options to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of reading email.

Indev expects a OS X 10.6 compatible MiniMail 2 to be released before the end of October 2009. MiniMail 2 will be priced at $12.95 USD for new users and $4.95 USD for users upgrading from MiniMail 1.x. Existing Indev customers will be able to purchase MiniMail 2 for $8.95.

To learn more about MiniMail, and to download a 30-day evaluation copy of the software, please visit:
http://www.indev.ca/MiniMail.html

To link to this press release use: http://www.olivetoast.com/MiniMail/acquisition_press.shtml

Oct 1st 2009Files 1.4 Released!

After almost 2 months in review Apple have finally released Files 1.4. Who knows why this took so long (well Apple presumably, but they haven't told us).

Anyway these are the new features Apple have been sitting on for so long. We're especially proud of our new PDF viewer which now supports very large documents, password protection and has the best support for detecting and zooming regions of any other viewer on the App Store. Go get it!

  • New PDF viewer with support for large PDF documents, password protection, table-of-contents, double-tap to zoom, remembers last used offset and zoom.
  • New text viewer with adjustable font size.
  • Slideshow and audio shuffle.
  • New translation (Norwegian).
  • Bug fixes.

July 1st 2009Files 1.3.2

After 2 weeks in review Files 1.3.2 is finally available on the App Store.

  • Fixes an issue loading Powerpoint documents on iPhone OS 3.0
  • Files now uses the standard Mail interface and accounts to send attachments on iPhone OS 3.0. This means you can now enter a custom recipient and message along with your attachment.
  • Other bug fixes

May 18th 2009Files 1.3.1

Files 1.3.1 is now available on the App Store.

  • Improved email compatibility
  • Added an email signature setting
  • iWork 09 documents now supported if saved with preview
  • Minor RTF fixes
  • Improved rotation performance in the file and document views
  • Other bug fixes

May 6th 2009Files 1.3

Files 1.3 is now available on the App Store.

New features:

  • Send email attachments
  • File list quick scroll bar
  • Document quick scroll bar
  • Much improved web interface with support for upload, delete, move and copy.
  • Document orientation lock
  • Folder info label toggles between info, IP URL and Bonjour URL.
  • Improved performance loading large folders
  • New translations (Dutch, German, Japanese, Portuguese)
  • Bug fixes

Mar 6th 2009Files 1.2.2

Files 1.2.2 is now available on the App Store.

  • File list view now displays image thumbnails.
  • Image viewer now supports the swipe gesture to move between images.
  • Improved audio player with next/previous and playlist support.
  • Added translations for: French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Turkish and Simplified Chinese.

Jan 9th 2009Calling all Translators

Currently Files and Files lite are only available in the English language. If you would be interested in translating Files please contact us. We currently require translators for Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Korean.

Dec 29th 2008Files 1.2.1

Files 1.2.1 is now available on the App Store.

  • Fixed clipping of last list item by the toolbar.
  • Image EXIF orientation is now handled correctly.
  • Passcode lock improvements.
  • Various WebDAV fixes.
  • Other bug fixes.

Files lite 1.2.1 is also available.

Nov 21st 2008Files 1.2

Files 1.2 is now available on the App Store.

  • Full support for RTF & RTFD documents, including unicode.
  • Image browsing
  • Image slideshow
  • Bookmarks can now be re-ordered
  • Back/forward buttons added for HTML documents
  • Files now remembers the last viewed folder and will return to this location the next time the application is started.
  • WebDAV performance improvements
  • Delete is no longer available when Files is accessed in local guest mode
  • Image view bug fixes
  • Other bug fixes

Files lite 1.2 is also available. It contains the same improvements, but does not include image browsing, slideshow or bookmarks.

Nov 11th 2008New Discussion Forums Available

Announcing our new support forums for discussion of anything related to our software.

Please note that if you want a direct reply from Olive Toast regarding a bug or problem with one of our products you should still contact support directly.

Oct 25th 2008Files lite 1.1

Files lite is our free version of Files and is available now from the App Store.

Connect to Files lite over Wifi from any Mac or PC and drag and drop files straight from the Finder or Windows Explorer, as you would with any other shared folder. In fact any client which understands the WebDAV protocol can connect to Files lite.

Files lite supports viewing of many common file types, including most Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents, PDF documents, images, text, html, movie and audio files. Documents and images are all displayed fullscreen, in portrait or landscape mode. Zoom and pan via the standard pinch and swipe gestures.

Move around documents using the page up/down buttons. These auto-page when the button is held down, making it easy to move around longer documents.

Being free Files lite has a few limitations compared to the full version of Files, the main limitation being a 200MB data storage limit.

Oct 24th 2008Files 1.1.1

Files 1.1.1 is now available on the App Store

  • iWork documents are now fully supported, no need to zip before transfer.
  • Page up/down buttons now support automatic paging if the button is held down.
  • Text file encoding setting added. Can be set application wide and on a per file basis.
  • File sort order setting added.
  • Passcode lock can now be set to activate when the device wakes from sleep.
  • Go to page now displays current page and count as placeholder text
  • Quota can now be disabled (Files will use all available free space)
  • Network activity indicator now displayed for longer operations.
  • HTML links (in viewer) are no longer case-sensitive
  • Now more memory efficient when working with large numbers of files.
  • Edit button added to make file deletion easier to discover
  • Help updated
  • New application icon
  • Other bug fixes

Sep 27th 2008Files 1.1

Files 1.1 is now available on the App Store

  • Improved WebDAV compatibility with Windows, including 64 bit Vista.
  • Now supports Map Network Drive in Vista.
  • Secure local access to Files using a Passcode Lock.
  • Page up/down buttons added.
  • Now fully supports landscape mode in file list and document views.
  • Help now integrated into the application.
  • Adds a "Display File Extensions" setting.
  • Adds a “Prevent Sleep” setting.
  • Improved handling of sleep during transfers.
  • Fixes issue with non-English Regional Formats.
  • Bug fixes.

Aug 19th 2008Good Sync

Good Sync, www.goodsync.com, is a Windows WebDAV client which allows users to sync files between their PC and Files. It is reported to work well on all versions of XP and Vista, including 64 bit Windows.
Both "free" and "pro" versions of Good Sync are available.

Aug 16th 2008Files Connection Videos Added

Watch videos demonstrating connection to Files from Mac OS X, Windows XP and Vista

Aug 14th 2008Files 1.0.1 Released

Apple have released the Files v1.0.1 update to the App Store today. This is a free upgrade for all users.

UPGRADE WARNING:
Please backup your documents before upgrading. Apple control the application upgrade process and it seems that they do not always perserve existing documents as they should.

Issues fixed in v1.0.1:

  • It is now possible to connect to Files directly from Windows Explorer.
    For the latest connection instructions please see here.
  • Excel documents now display correctly in Files 1.0.1.
  • Large image files now display correctly.
  • Local HTML page links now load as expected.
  • Offce 2007 XML documents are viewable in Files 1.0.1. Support for these formats is as good (or bad) as in other iPhone apps, e.g. Mail.
  • Preliminary iWork Support
    Although iWork files are not "formally" supported in Files 1.0.1 they are viewable if you zip them up (e.g. readme.pages.zip) before transferring to Files.

Bonjour

Files has always included Bonjour support. However most clients (e.g. Finder, Windows Explorer) don't support WebDAV Bonjour so do not automatically detect Files when it is running on your network.

However, the good news is that from v2.0.1 of the iPhone OS, Apple have enabled broadcast of the iPhone's "local" Bonjour name. This means that on Mac OS X, or on Windows (with Safari or iTunes installed), you can now use your iPhone's name, rather than the IP address, in the WebDAV URL.

For example, if you phone is called "iPhone" in iTunes you can use the following WebDAV URL to connect to Files:

http://iPhone.local:8080

Notes:

  • iPhone OS 2.0.1 is required. This does not currently include the iPod touch which still uses the 2.0 firmware.
  • Windows users must install Safari or iTunes to enable Apple's Bonjour networking support.

Aug 5th 2008Files 1.0

Olive Toast is proud to release Files, our first iPhone application.

Files allows you to store and view files on your iPhone or iPod touch. You can connect to Files from any Mac or PC and drag and drop files straight from the Finder or Windows Explorer, as you would with any other shared folder. In fact any client which understands the WebDAV protocol can connect to Files.

Files supports viewing of most common file types, including Microsoft Office documents, PDF documents, images, text, html, movie and audio files. You can quickly and easily read documents and view images, all fullscreen and in portrait or landscape mode. Zoom and pan via the standard pinch and swipe gestures.

More information

Windows Compatibility

Windows users please read this important compatibility note