{"id":1434,"date":"2010-10-24T22:15:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T11:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2010-10-24T22:15:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T11:15:37","slug":"free-your-android-device-of-the-usb-cable-with-swiftp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/free-your-android-device-of-the-usb-cable-with-swiftp\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Your Android Device of the USB Cable with SwiFTP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick tip for those who are prone to losing, misplacing or hate using cables.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a great app called SwiFTP (a contracted form of &#8220;Swift FTP&#8221;) which basically install a compact FTP server on your phone. \u00a0Then you can connect to it using your favourite FTP client (such as FileZilla) and drag and drop files over Wi-Fi as you please without the need to connect a USB cable.<\/p>\n<p>I find this app particularly handy when I have left my phone upstairs charging and I need to transfer photos off it or I want to transfer more music or videos onto it (before I came across WINAMP) &#8211; it&#8217;s great for the couch potato! You can leave the app running in the background all the time but I choose to turn it off when I am not using it to conserve battery life and also to stop others from attempting to get into the FTP server by guessing my password (don&#8217;t be lazy by using a weak password).<\/p>\n<p>SwiFTP is free and installation is an absolute snap from the Android Market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick tip for those who are prone to losing, misplacing or hate using cables. There&#8217;s a great app called SwiFTP (a contracted form of &#8220;Swift FTP&#8221;) which basically install a compact FTP server on your phone. \u00a0Then you can connect to it using your favourite FTP client (such as FileZilla) and drag and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/free-your-android-device-of-the-usb-cable-with-swiftp\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,78,180,151,18,184,134,79],"tags":[355,1011,2356,1009,171,562],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-operating-systems-technology","category-connectivity","category-interfaces","category-operating-systems","category-technology","category-usb-interfaces-technology","category-wifi","category-wireless","tag-android","tag-filezilla","tag-ftp","tag-swiftp","tag-usb","tag-wi-fi","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}