WD delivers networked photo libraries to iPhone

Stephen Withers
Monday, 03 May 2010 12:08

Your IT - Mobility

A new, free iPhone app from WD provides remote access to photos stored on the company's networked drives.

Networked storage is becoming popular among a growing number of home users as a way of making resources such as digital photos available to multiple computers. Such devices are commonly accessible outside the home via the Internet.

Another popular piece of technology is Apple's iPhone/iPod touch family. Combine these two threads and you have access to even very large collections of photos from a device that fits in your pocket, without clogging up the relatively small amount of internal storage.

And that's what WD has done. The WD Photos app works with the iPhone/iPod touch and the company's My Book World Edition and ShareSpace drives. Instead of copying all your photos ("just in case") to an online service such as Picasa, any photos from your entire library are available on demand.

An application running on the networked drive creates iPhone-optimised versions of the photos stored in its Shared Pictures folder. This trades off an increased storage requirement for speed of access.

The free app includes search capability, slideshows, adding photos to the Camera Roll, emailing photos, and assigning photos to contacts. Registration with WD's MioNet remote access service (free with My Book drives) is required.

What does WD have to say about the app? See page 2.