Turning iPhones into Portable Drives Portland OR

Whether you use your iPod or iPhone for entertainment, communication, or to amplify your cool quotient, all models share one thing in common: They can function as portable storage devices. Depending on the model, your device features either a hard drive or flash drive that allows you to read and write files to it just like an external drive once you enable it to do so. Here’s how.

Apple doesn’t allow you to enable disk use on an iPhone or iPod touch, but that doesn’t mean you can’t turn either into a portable storage device if it’s got space to spare. Here are a few iPhone apps that’ll turn your iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless (yes, wireless!) drive. You might want to look at the user reviews in iTunes first before you give them a try.

• Avatron Software Air Sharing, $5 (iTunes App Store)
• Magnetism Studios FileMagnet, $5 (iTunes App Store)
• mAPPn Discover, free (iTunes App Store)
• Veiosoft DataCase, $7 (iTunes App Store)

Aditionally, you can use Ecamm Networks’ $20 PhoneView to copy files to and from an iPhone or iPod touch.

[Writer, music composer, photographer, and pack rat Kris Fong has archived tens of thousands of files. Now if she could only remember what’s stored where...]