Well, Apple might boast of its revolutionary iTunes software for all sort of purposes but to me it isn’t everything. The most important aspect for any software is its portability and compatibility. Yes, itunes have some great features but if you are an iPhone/iPad/iPod user you would have faced the portability issue several times which is the limitation that you can keep your library synced to only one particular pc/mac which is a big limitation.

Though there are several tricks available which can make your iPhone “a true portable device” and one such is use of iPhone browser. iPhone browser is absolutely free and it explores the file system of your iPhone from your PC/ MAC. This feature allows you to copy and paste files in respective directories. For example:

1. You directly copy and paste bulk photos into your iphone.

2. You can open PDF, Excel,Word documents by pasting these files to respective directory of the app which handles such requests.

3. You can paste software’s and games directly without syncing to iTunes.

Take for example:

iPhone 2G does not support ebooks and PDF’s. A common myth is that iPhone cannot read PDF’s unfortunately it is false. You don’t need any converter or any other format to be read by iPhone. All you have to do is download a PDF reader app and paste the file using iPhone explorer into the repective drive [see image].