{"id":1147,"date":"2010-12-19T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T20:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2022-05-07T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T19:25:20","slug":"ftp-to-an-ipod-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/19\/ftp-to-an-ipod-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"FTP to an iPod Touch (in 125 easy steps!)"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series FTP to iPod Touch<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Well, really it isn’t nearly that many… if you do it right the first time, or maybe even the second.<\/p>\n

Why am I writing this… the result of a “quest”. After being inspired by a person working on their family tree, I have been working on the family genealogy a little recently. Since I migrated to Windows 7 (64 bit) my old Ultimate Family Tree program would no longer work. I searched around a little, and bought Family Tree Maker.. for the third time. I used it once, maybe twice and decided it did not do what I wanted.\u00a0To basic, not enough flexibility. So backed up and tried “TMG” The Master Genealogist. A very full featured program. It does come with a bit of a learning curve, but working a little at a time and reading what I could find I am getting it working. One really great add on is “Second Site” a program that reads the TMG data and creates web pages from it… and what web pages. There are more options than you can deal with (almost).<\/p>\n

While researching I started reading the forums on TMG and also the Roots L for TMG.\u00a0One question came up, “How can I put my data on an iPod Touch (and\/or an iPad). No one seemed to have a complete answer. Most responses were to create a GEDCOM file, use a software that could then import to iPod and read the GEDCOM. I suppose this works, but it got me to wondering if and how I could transfer any<\/span> files, and use my Second Site web site on the iPod or iPad. Several articles I found seemed way to complicated… some apps seemed way to expensive to try “just for fun”.<\/p>\n

I finally found an app on the Apple Web Store “FileApp”. It sounded like it would do what I wanted, and had the benefit of being free so it it did not work I was out nothing except a little time and effort.<\/p>\n


\nHow to do this?<\/p>\n

Important Note: This applies only to wireless transfer.<\/strong><\/span> If you want to use USB<\/span> you will need a second, paid for, program!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I found though the wireless transfer is very fast, surprisingly so even. I transferred my entire web site, about 15 megabytes worth, in under two minutes to a iPod Touch (4th Generation, you know the one with the camera). So basically if you do not have a home wireless network or a PC\/Laptop with wireless on it, you might want to go find a good book and read it… OR you can try the companion program to this one.. diskaid found at https:\/\/www.digidna.net\/products\/diskaid<\/a> It’s not to expensive at $5 so you may want to try it.<\/p>\n

Start with getting the necessary program from the iTunes Store.
\nHopefully you know how to do that because I am not going through that step by step!
\nWhat you want is is to search for “fileapp”.
\n\"Search<\/a><\/p>\n

There are two versions, try the free and if it works you may or may not want to upgrade to “Pro”. You can visit the authors web site to see the differences. It looks like there are different ones for the iPod Touch \/ iPhone and the iPad.\u00a0(I think not, that is just how it is displayed…)
\n\"Search<\/a><\/p>\n

Once you find it, do the “Purchase” thing.
\n\"Purchase<\/a><\/p>\n

Read up on what the authors web site to get started.
\n\"Read<\/a><\/p>\n

So now it downloads it to your iTunes software. Link up and sync to install. I saw the Opera browser while I was there and got it also. Nothing you need. (But it is a good browser.)
\n\"Download<\/a><\/p>\n

What next? Well go ahead and open the program!
\n\"Open<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, that is it for this time. You can play with it, or go to the next post in this series.<\/p>\n

George<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series FTP to iPod Touch<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

How I managed to transfer a complete Genealogy web site to my iPod Touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[190,186,199,207,208,206],"series":[185],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-sites","category-general-news","tag-file-transfer","tag-ftp","tag-genealogy-sites","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-ipod-touch","series-ftp-to-ipod-touch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}