You have your iPad and you want to sync files and documents via Bluetooth but you don’t quite know the apps or even what you can or can’t sync. Here is a guide to syncing your iPad with Bluetooth and all your files and documents.
iPad File And Document Syncing
If you are like a lot of iPad owners you own an iPhone or you own a laptop with Bluetooth. And the next thing you want to know how to do is sync that data or files to and from you iPad. You could always email it back and forth or use cloud-based apps but it’s actually a lot more fun and sometimes more convenient to simply copy things back and forth wirelessly.
Syncing Files and Documents via Bluetooth
It’s pretty easy to use your iPad for document syncing. The first thing to know is that this will take an app to do. Just because your iPad and the other device have Bluetooth does not mean they can instantly begin sharing information. Here are a few of the top apps you can get for document and file sharing with your iPad via Bluetooth.
Bluetooth FileShare
For about $.99 you can quickly transfer files and documents to and from your iPad. A great use of this is if you are a student or in a meeting and you have some notes you want to share with someone else. One thing to know about this app and most of these is that you will need another iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch as file sharing is restricted between these.
To use it, you need to have Bluetooth enabled on both devices. Launch the app, they devices will pair up and then you can begin transferring the following types of files:
- Microsoft Office – Word (.doc), Excel (.xls), Powerpoint (.ppt)
- iWork Documents
- PDF Documents – (.pdf)
- Text Documents – (.txt, .rtf)
- Web pages – (.html)
- Music – (.mp3, .aif, .iff, .wav)
- Video – (.mp4, .mov)
- Images – (.jpg, .bmp, .png, .gif)
MobileStudio
For a little bit more ($1.99) you can get an entire mobile iPad file Bluetooth sync suite. MobileStudio is a full-featured (and very easy to use) iPad file manager that lets you create, view, and edit files on the go. And then you to transfer those files wirelessly via Bluetooth to another iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.
You can even transfer files via Bluetooth from your iPad to your Mac or PC. Here are the features of the MobileStudio app:
- Intuitive filesystem browser and editor
- File transfers to and from a Mac or PC
- Bluetooth file transfers between devices
- Compatible with Mac OS X™ 10.4, 10.5, 10.6
- Compatible with Windows 7, Vista™, XP™
- Compatible with all flavors of Linux™
- Standard file operations
- Text file creation and editing
- Image file creation and editing
- Sound file creation and editing
- Movie file playback
- PDF & Web viewer
- Zip archive compression
- Office™ and iWork™ document viewer
- Emailing of files as attachments
This is a great way to transfer files and documents using Bluetooth and your iPad. The app is also very easy to use and it also protected with a password in case you want extra security ( a feature not found in the Bluetooth FileShare app)
There are other apps out there that let you transfer data and files via Wi-Fi only and not using Bluetooth but we wanted to cover a few valuable ones that you can use just with Bluetooth. The advantage to these apps is convenience. You may not always be connected to a Wi-Fi network and yet you might want to quickly transfer a few files or even some notes you took so that is where Bluetooth comes in handy.
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