App of the week for journalists: iFTP
A great app for mobile journalists who need to transfer video, audio or images to an FTP server while out and about
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App of the week:
Devices:
iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch
Cost:
£0.69
What is it?
An app that enables you to file video, images and audio to your newsdesk from your iPhone
How is it of use to journalists?
If you want to get video, photo, audio or text files back to your newsroom when out and about, one way to do this is by FTP (which stands for File Transfer Protocol and is away of transferring files to a server over the internet).
This app for iOS devices allows you to enter the settings of your FTP server, and then transfer files from your phone.
There is an in-built text editor and you can continue to use your phone or iPad while files are uploading (or downloading) from the FTP server.
The app also allows you to transfer files over a wifi network and has local file storage, meaning you could use your phone to store files in place of a USB stick.
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Written by
Sarah Marshall is VP Audience Strategy at Condé Nast. She leads distribution and channel strategy globally. She is also the former technology editor for Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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