How to download files and documents to i. Phone or i. Pad. Downloading and saving files or documents to a computer is something we don’t think about. Click, click, done. It’s saved on the hard drive and ready to be accessed when needed. On i. OS though, it’s a little more complicated than that. The lack of a user file system can be confusing, and something as simple as downloading a file can all the sudden become a daunting task. How do I download a file to my i. You can open and save PDFs directly in Windows 10, but there are more sophisticated options. From iTools: iTools is a simple and powerful tool for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch users. It is 100% freeware and green, even do not need to install onto your PC, it has. Google Drive has come a long way from being an online-only, document viewer and editor. From managing your files to collaborating on Docs, Drive is a full-functioning. The digital edition can be download through the digital QST application to an iOS device, Android device, or Kindle Fire to view while offline. After you open an. ![]() Phone? Where do I download it to? These are questions I’ve recently been asked, but also problems I have faced myself. In this post, I’ll try to share different options for downloading files to an i. Phone or i. Pad. Where to download files to on an i. Need to save a webpage or website so that you can view it offline? Are you going to be offline for an extended period of time, but want to be able to brows. Phone or i. Pad. As mentioned above, there is no accessible file system on i. OS, which means we can’t just download files to a default Documents folder or similar on the drive. Apple has made the lack of accessible file system a little easier to swallow over the past couple years, specifically with the expansion of i. Cloud services but also with i. Why use PDFObject? PDFObject 2.0 detects browser support for inline/embedded PDFs. Cloud Drive, a front facing app for most files stored in i. Cloud. Apple has also opened things up to third- party applications. If you are not jailbroken, use the iTransfer app, the camera connection kit. Contrary to what you (or your trainer) might believe, endorphins aren’t responsibly for that giddy exuberance you feel after a long run. What is associated with the. Dropbox is probably the most familiar name in the space. Google Drive is also a popular option, and for those users who have limited i. Cloud storage, these two services might be the best options to download files. By default, these files won’t be on the device. They will be stored in the cloud and accessible from the device, and in some cases, users will be able to download them for offline access. In which case, they will be on the device itself as well. No matter what, files will have to be downloaded to a cloud service. It can be i. Cloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, or other similar services. In this post, we’ll be working with Dropbox, but the principle is the same regardless of the service used. All the screenshots will be from an i. Phone, but again, the basic principles are identical regardless of the i. OS device you’re using, be it an i. Phone, i. Pad, or i. Pod touch. How to download files on i. Phone and i. Pad. The basic principle to download files from your i. Phone or i. Pad is fairly simple, regardless of the file you’re trying to download. You can for example download PDFs, Word, Excel, Power. Point, . zip, . txt, . M4a, . wav, . mov, and much more. If it’s a file, it can be downloaded. While Apple will let you put any file type in your i. Cloud Drive, the company won’t let you easily download any file type from your i. OS device to i. Cloud, which is why using a third- party service such as Dropbox is still the best option, in my opinion anyway. If you don’t have a Dropbox account, you should sign up for a free one, or look into using Google Drive, which also offers a free tier. On your i. Phone or i. Pad, go to Safari and open the file you are trying to download. Tap on the Share button, which will bring up the Share sheet. Select “Save to Dropbox.” If you don’t see that option, swipe all the way to the right and tap on the More button. From there, you will be able to enable the Dropbox extension. Now tap the Save button, or choose a different folder where to save the file, then tap Save. That’s it. The file has now been saved to your Dropbox account and will be available for easy access across all your devices, such as your computer, your i. Phone, i. Pad, etc. Once it’s in Dropbox (or Google Drive, or whatever other service you may use), you can easily access and share this file from anywhere, assuming you have an Internet connection. Downloading files from a password- protected website. The steps mentioned above work great if the file you are trying to download is available publicly from a website. But things can get a little tricky if you are trying to download a file or document that is stored on a password- protected website. If that’s the case, we’ll need to use another third- party application to do the job. That applications is called Documents 5, and it’s free to download from the App Store. Documents 5 is an amazing application that is primarily a file manager, but it’s more powerful than it sounds. Here is how to use it to download a file from a password- protected site. Launch Documents 5 and open the app’s browser. Login to whatever website you need to use to download a file or document. Locate the file you want to download, and tap on it to load it. In the top right corner of the screen, tap on the upload button. From there you can change the name of the document and select its destination, either locally to the Documents/Download folder of Documents 5, or to i. Cloud. 5. Documents 5 will then let you change the file name, if necessary, and select where you want to download the file to. By default, it will save it to the Downloads folder of the Documents 5 application, but by tapping on Documents/Downloads, you can also select to download the file to i. Cloud. If you choose to download the file to the Documents/Download folder, then the file will be stored locally on your device. From Documents 5, you will then be able to move it to i. Cloud or Dropbox, or Google Drive, for example. You will also be able to share it via email. Why Documents 5 is a must- have application. Despite the fact that it is completely free, Documents 5 is a great application to have if you’re handling files on your i. Phone or i. Pad. It makes downloading and moving files around a breeze. Because it can tie in to various cloud services, and let you access and move files between them, Documents 5 can be the central location for all your file handling needs. Although not as simple as a drag and drop gesture would be on a computer, As pointed out by Prolly. Wild in the comments section, Documents 5 can even let you move files around folders and cloud services by using a drag and drop gesture, making file handling almost as simple as it would be on a desktop computer. To move a file, simply tap and hold your finger on it, then drag it to your destination of choice. It can be a folder, or a cloud service such as i. Cloud, Dropbox, etc. Downloading files on i. Phone or i. Pad is a pain. No matter how good you are at getting this workflow down, it still feels like downloading files and documents from an i. Phone or i. Pad is a giant pain in the butt. It’s not complex per say, but it’s an inelegant process that needs some work. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy to be able to download files this way, but I wish Apple would let me access part of the drive of my i. Phone or i. Pad so I can painlessly download stuff to my liking. Maybe this will be part of a future software update, especially now that Apple is trying hard to pitch i. Pad as a work machine. In the meantime, if you’re interested in learning (much) more about how to download files on i. OS, I suggest you listen to this episode of Canvas where Federico Viticci and Fraser Speirs talk about this topic in great details. As always, any questions or comments you may have are more than welcome. How to block ads in Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Chrome on Windowsdot. Tech. Advertisements are a critical source of revenue keeping dot. Tech afloat (same goes for most other websites). I greatly appreciate anyone and everyone that does not block ads on dot. Tech and our sister site, Shareware. On. Sale. However, I do not hold a grudge with anyone that does block ads because I understand advertisements can be very annoying (especially Flash ads); and, I feel everyone should at least have the knowledge of how to block ads so it is by choice when (if) they decide to not block ads as opposed to by helplessness. After all, education is the key to making an informed decision. Out of those that dislike ads, there are some that block ads and there are some that would like to block ads but don’t know how. This article aims to help that latter group. This article will show you how to block ads on the four major browsers used by Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8, Mac OS X, and Linux users: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Opera. Read on to learn more. Table of Contents. System- wide Ad- blocking. Before we get into telling you how to block ads on Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, or Opera, I want to point out two methods you can use to block all ads on your computer regardless of which program or browser the ads are shown in. In other words, the following two methods will block ads on every browser you use and other programs too, like instant messengers, torrent software, etc. If you use any of the two system- wide ad- blocking methods mentioned below, you do not need to download any browser add- on or browser specific method to block ads (e. As such, you can use Ad. Fender to block ads on Firefox, Internet Explorer (including the latest v. IE), Chrome, Opera, or any other web browser you use; it also blocks ads on instant messaging programs and torrent software. All you have to do is download and install Ad. Fender, and it is good to go — it will automatically block ads on Internet Explorer (and your other browsers). Click here to learn more about Ad. Fender and read our full review. Hosts. Man. Hosts. Man is not an ad- blocking program; it is a program that allows you to modify your Windows computer’s HOSTS file. However, you can use Hosts. Man to block ads because you can use it to block connections to ad networks vis- a- vis the HOSTS file. The process is actually quite a bit easier than it sounds — you only have to click a few buttons — and it is very effective: it blocks ads on every browser or program on your computer. Click here to learn more about Hosts. Man and read our full review. How to block ads on Firefox. Without a doubt Firefox is the easiest browser to block ads in because of its extensive add- ons support. In fact, while I don’t know if Firefox was the first browser to support adblockers, I do know Firefox is what made adblocking popular. If you are a Firefox user and you want to block ads, look no further than Ad. Block Plus. Ad. Block Plus is a no- hassle, install- and- go adblocker add- on for Firefox. Really the only sort of “setup” you need to do with Ad. Block Plus is select the adblocking filter you want to use: These filters are, more or less, a definitions list telling Ad. Block Plus which ads to block (similar to how there are virus definitions for anti- virus programs). You need to select one of the filters to use; unless you know what you are doing, just leave it at “Easy. List” and click “Add subscription”. After the initial installation you can select to use more than one filter (“Tools” - > “Ad. Block Plus Preferences. This can be done via the Ad. Block Plus button: Adblocking is not a perfect science; there will be false positives (i. Ad. Block Plus blocks an image or element which isn’t an ad). Ad. Block Plus makes it fairly easy to unblock images/elements when these false positives do occur. This can be done by clicking the Ad. Block Plus button, right- clicking the false positive, and disabling the corresponding filter: Many people decide to use No. Script (an add- on that blocks scripts – like Java. Script – from running) instead of Ad. Block Plus for their ad blocking needs (most ads are served using Java. Script, so when No. Script blocks Java. Script the ads do not appear). Yes No. Script is a terrific add- on, and yes it will make your browser safer and faster. However, I personally dislike No. Script. No. Script is something that discourages the use of browsing technologies like Java. Script. Can Java. Script be used to exploit people’s computers? How many websites that run Java. Script do this? The point is we should not be discouraging the use of these website technologies – we should be embracing them (unless everyone wants the plain HTML websites back) – just because a few punks decide to exploit that technology. Do we stop downloading programs just because some programs are malicious? Of course not! Rather, we are just careful about what programs we download. Similarly, there is no need to block scripts if you are just careful of where you visit (and if you have security software installed), just like if you are careful of what you download. Of course No. Script does allow users to enable scripts on “trusted” websites, but knowing when to enable scripts takes the eye of a tech- savvy person. The average user will be severely deprived of the wonders of the Internet after installing No. Script. If you don’t want these “acceptable ads”, you can disable the feature. Click here to learn how to disable acceptable ads on Ad. Block Plus. How to block ads on Internet Explorer. Blocking ads on Internet Explorer used to be more complicated than Firefox. Nonetheless, I will provide multiple different methods on blocking ads in Internet Explorer – you decide which one is best for you. Like Ad. Block Plus on Firefox, Ad. Block Plus on Internet Explorer is easy- to- install and just works — it starts blocking ads from the get- go without you needing to setup anything. In other words, simply install it and go. Also be sure to read dot. Tech’s article on what Ad. Block Plus’ . This filter can be used to block ads. A user on DSLReports forum created an XML file out of Ad. Block Plus’s list of ads to block and this XML file can be imported into In. Private Browsing’s content filter: Download the XML file. Ads will be blocked like normal as long as you have “In. Private Filtering” enabled (“Safety” - > “In. Private Filtering”). The thing about “In. Private Filtering” is you must manually turn it on every time you run Internet Explorer. If you find that annoying, a simple registry hack makes “In. Private Filtering” automatically turn on every time you run Internet Explorer. To do this registry hack. Run regedit. Go to HKEY. Make sure hexadecimal is selected, enter a 1 in the textbox and click OK: Close regedit. Now every time you run Internet Explorer “In. Private Filtering” will be turned on and ads will be blocked. Since this method uses In. Private Browsing’s filter, there is no need to download any plugins. The downside, however, is. The XML file from the DSLReports user is an year old (i. Ad. Block Plus’ filters have been updated since then) so the list does not include the latest ad servers in it (although it still allows you to block most ads you will come across)You cannot exclude specific websites from the filter (i. It was last updated in June 2. I’d suggest looking at the Ad. Fender method mentioned above to block ads in IE since IE7. Pro is no longer being actively developed. IE7. Pro is a plugin for Internet Explorer (works on IE 6/7/8 – not just IE 7) that adds a boatload of useful features to Internet Explorer. One of the features IE7. Pro adds is an adblocker. This adblocker, however, is not enabled by default after installing IE7. Pro – users have to manually enable it after installation. To do this, go to “Preferences” again, click on “Ad Blocker” and enable Flash blocker: You have the ability to modify filters, add your own filters, and whitelist websites. Overall I found the ad blocking features of IE7. Pro to be very poor; heck it wouldn’t even block Google Ad. Sense ads. Free is limited to blocking 2. Because of this limitation, I’d suggest using the the Ad. Fender method mentioned above to block ads in IE since Simple Adblock is no longer free. Simple Adblock is the closest IE users will be able to get to an Ad. Block Plus- like plugin. Simple Adblock uses Easy. List filters (the one from Ad. Block Plus) to block ads so its accuracy in blocking ads is extremely good, although not as good as Ad. Block Plus since Ad. Block Plus allows for usage of multiple filters. Also, while Simple Adblock does allow users to disable Simple Adblock on a specific website, there is not much users can do to block individual ads or unblock individual ads. Simple Adblock does allow users to customize the filters list, but again, that is is a hassle because users have to modify files located in Simple Adblock’s installation folder. On the brightside, Simple Adblock is very easy to setup, requiring only two inputs from the user after installation: After installation Simple Adblock is accessible via an icon placed in Internet Explorer’s bottom bar: As I said, Simple Adblock is the closest free plugin Internet Explorer users will get to Ad. Block Plus; a word of caution about Simple Adblock though. You should always only install plugins/add- ons/extensions from trusted sources because otherwise you could be installing a browser exploit without knowing it. Simple Adblock is not that well known (thus not fully vetted by the Internet Explorer community) and the developer does not provide any information about him/herself. I am not saying Simple Adblock is a malicious plugin (Site. Advisor says it is clean, Download. I scanned it personally and it came out to be clean); I am saying be cautious. How to block ads on Chrome. Ad. Block Plus. Ad. Block Plus, the famous ad- blocking add- on for Firefox, has now been officially ported to Chrome. Like Ad. Block Plus on Firefox, Ad.
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