{"id":204,"date":"2012-11-04T23:36:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T03:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lschofield.net\/technical\/?p=204"},"modified":"2012-11-04T23:36:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T03:36:22","slug":"apple-air-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/apple-air-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Air Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The machines have been on a scattered assortment of 10.x OS&#8217;s, some because of hardware limitations, some because its a lot of trouble to upgrade when you&#8217;re busy with other things. \u00a0But, the older machines are starting to be used seldom, and the newer machines are 10.7 or later now. \u00a0Transferring files with the USB memory stick seems so floppy-disk now. \u00a0Bluetooth transfers are OK, but you need to turn on bluetooth which you may not be using. \u00a0 Copying over Wi-Fi is a hassle if you aren&#8217;t on the same network, haven&#8217;t enabled guest access, and have firewalls turned on. \u00a0A very pleasant surprise is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT4783\">Air Drop<\/a>&#8220;, a feature which seems to be (I&#8217;m too lazy to look it up) a combination of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wi-Fi\">Wi-Fi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/bonjour\/\">Bonjour<\/a> to make a simple file transfer between two computers.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-04-at-10.32.38-PM1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-206\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-11-04 at 10.32.38 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.new.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-04-at-10.32.38-PM1-300x187.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-04-at-10.32.38-PM1-300x187.png 300w, http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-04-at-10.32.38-PM1-768x480.png 768w, http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-04-at-10.32.38-PM1.png 884w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, if you&#8217;re on the same network you can just peer-to-peer through normal networking shares. \u00a0But, this is very useful if you aren&#8217;t on the same network. \u00a0My example; you have a very complicated WiFi encryption key, too long and random to hand type without frequent mistakes. \u00a0But, paste it into a file, send it through AirDrop, open the file on the second computer and paste it into the WiFi password prompt. \u00a0Now, both computers are on the network with little hassle and very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>A nice replacement for any sneaker net, provided everyone is running OS X at a high enough revision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The machines have been on a scattered assortment of 10.x OS&#8217;s, some because of hardware limitations, some because its a lot of trouble to upgrade when you&#8217;re busy with other things. \u00a0But, the older machines are starting to be used seldom, and the newer machines are 10.7 or later now. \u00a0Transferring files with the USB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8,34,71,90,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lschofield.net\/technical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}