I'm an apple fan, so for me I just use "Air Drop". :)

I should probably be using Air Drop more, I use an iPhone and am on a Macbook right now. Half the time I'm on a Windows or Linux machine though.
I use Dropbox because it was easy and I have some folders shared with me from other people, and a NAS at home.

I just so happened to come across this post and wanted to share a neat tool - I also use Air Drop... for my Apple devices. Yea - thats the holdup, right; well theres a really nice tool available on Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android AND Linux that you have to checkout;

LocalSend
https://localsend.org/

It just works - for text, files and media. Very useful and, IMO, better than Air Drop as you can use it on any device.



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LocalSend
https://localsend.org/

It just works - for text, files and media. Very useful
and, IMO, better than Air Drop as you can use it on any device.

That sounds just about perfect for the task! I hadn't heard of it before, thanks for bringing it up.

If anyone else is slightly annoyed, like I am, by the slick modern website design that has incredibly little information about what it IS, the Github link at the bottom of the localsend.org page has a little bit more info in the README. (also there's information about building this open source project yourself)

Cross platform, MIT license, it sounds pretty ideal!


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If anyone else is slightly annoyed, like I am, by the slick modern
website design that has incredibly little information about what it IS, the Github link at the bottom of the localsend.org page has a little bit more info in the README. (also there's information about building this open source project yourself)

I think they're going for those Air Drop people and tried hard to be 'Apple' - lol. I DIDN'T see the Github and am stoked to go checkout the code and read about it!! w00t - I got something here, too!



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Re: Re: Air Drop --> Localsend?
By: paulie420 to AKAcastor on Sat Jun 08 2024 10:27 am

Howdy,

I just so happened to come across this post and wanted to share a neat tool - I also use Air Drop... for my Apple devices. Yea - thats the holdup, right; well theres a really nice tool available on Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android AND Linux that you have to checkout;

LocalSend
https://localsend.org/

Nice find. Just had a look.

As much as I use airdrop, it sometimes just wont find the device you want to send stuff too... This looks like it might be a better option.


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https://localsend.org/

Nice find. Just had a look.
As much as I use airdrop, it sometimes just wont find the device you
want to send stuff too... This looks like it might be a better option.

So this is also SOMETIMES an issue w/ localsend; however, 90% of the time it just works as advertised and on all the platforms that I use, so yea - I use it often.



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