Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a TextGuru
Ever since I bought my lovely iPhone 3G, I’ve only really missed one thing about my Nokia N95: the ability to easily put files on the ‘phone, so that I can email them later. I don’t need to do this often, but when I do it tends to be quite important, in a ‘copy is missing, and it’s half past four on the day before it’s due to run’ sort of a way.
At long bloody last, this bog standard feature has arrived courtesy of TextGuru. The app has garnered quite a bit of attention thanks to it being a rather well-designed, easy to use text editor, one that includes the holy grail of missing iPhone features: cut and paste. I’m not terribly excited by the text editing features, to be honest—if I want to write and edit text, I’ll do it on something with a keyboard (though I’m fairly sure I’ll be writing longer emails in TextGuru before too long).
Anyway, here’s how to get a text file from your computer to your iPhone, then email it to your irate boss.
- Install TextGuru on your iPhone (at the time of writing it costs 59 pence).
- Download, install and launch the TextGuru File Share application for your Mac.
- Find the file you want, and copy it to the TextGuru folder (you’ll find an alias to it in your Documents folder, it’s really in ~/Library/Application Support/TextGuru/Files).
- Launch TextGuru on the iPhone
- Click on the File Shares button
- Click on ‘TextGuru FileServer’
- Click on the name of the file you copied to the TextGuru folder a moment ago.
- Click on the Download File button.
- Click on the Documents button.
- Click on the name of your file.
- Click on the little ‘i’ button.
- Click on ‘Send via Email’.
The technical term for all that is ‘a bit of a faff’, even if you discount the first two steps as one-time affairs. But I’m still really very grateful to the TextGuru developers for giving me a feature that Apple should’ve included from the off.
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