Michael Grant wrote: ... > I have long been plagued by the problem if sitting in a room or on a > boat with someone, 2 devices right next to one another, and no trivially > easy way to send a file from one device to the other without say first > uploading it to some mutual third party (e.g. whatsapp).
USB stick or in the elder days i could wire up a RS232 cable and use that via serial ports. ... > To this day, I have yet ever to see an easy way to share a file between > 2 devices without full internet connectivity, except by say getting one > to run an ftp or ssh server and ftp or ssh'ing over the file between > local ip addrs (e.g. 192.168.x.y). I'd love to know some well know > good, not-evil, open source app that runs on all the platforms that I > could tell people to install to send them a file without using the > internet. I can't really see any technical reason such an thing > couldn't work, say over bluetooth or local IPs and maybe it does exist, > I've just never run across such a thing. The key word here is EASY. I > can't be hacking someone's phone for an hour just to transfer them a > file. if i'm taking that long to do something, i'll just find an easier method. for me sending an e-mail with the file attached might also do it. songbird
