The innocuously-named FileBrowser is an iPad app which lets you entrance files on your mechanism over the internal network or a internet. This is a duty common by rounded off one zillion other apps in a store. What creates FileBrowser different is that it can access network-attached storage (NAS), letting you stream video and song to your iPad from the Time Capsule or alternative network drive but switching upon the computer.

The app will connect to Macs, Windows PCs as well as NAS devices around SMB pity. There is a little setup concerned, though a app comes installed with PDFs that travel you by step-by-step. I grabbed it so I could stream files from the hard-drive hooked up to my Time Capsule, the underline combined in a ultimate version of a app. It was easy.

All you need to do is give FileBrowser a name of a Time Capsule (or Airport Extreme bottom hire, along with your user name and cue. That’s it. Over an 802.11n tie you can drill down into a internal as well as external drives as quick as if they were internal storage, as well as clicking upon the concordant video record will play it right there in the app, with a standard media-control buttons.

The pretence is which a movie files need to be in a right format. If it would sync to a iPad around iTunes as well as play in a “Videos” app, afterwards you’re good to go. This equates to you’ll have to convert cinema before using this resolution: If you want to tide as well as modify cinema upon the fly, you’ll still need the mechanism using something like a excellent Air Video.

However, if you have a movie-playing app like CineXPlayer commissioned, you can choose to open AVI and other film formats with that instead. These don’t tide, though: FileBrowser downloads them initial.

FileBrowser will also work with any record which iOS can commend, as well as can palm those files off to alternative apps. It costs $3, that is $3 you’ll save in weeks by keeping your mechanism switched off.

FileBrowser app page [iTunes]