The iGet Mobile Favorites folder is a special folder on your Mac, that contains aliases to your own set of items, such as frequently-used folders, or favorite documents. These items appear on the start screen when you connect to your iGet Mobile personal server.
Initially, there are no Favorites. The iGet Mobile start screen contains only the default items: the Mac's hard drives, as well as your Home, Desktop, and Documents folders.
The default start screen, when no Favorites are defined.
Adding your items to the iGet Mobile Favorites
On the Mac which is running iGet Mobile, choose Show iGet Mobile Favorites from the Server menu. The folder will be opened in the Finder.
Initially, this folder is empty. To add items to it, create an alias to the item inside this folder. (The easiest way to do this is to hold down the Command and Option keys while dragging and dropping an item using the Finder).
In this case the user has added three items:
The iGet Mobile Favorites folder in the Finder, with three items added to it.
This user has added the following items:
- A picture of his dog, which he likes to show off to anybody interested. Now it's only a click away, from anywhere that a web browser is available.
- An alias to his Reading List folder, where he keeps downloaded articles, books, and documents which he intends to read, but hasn't had the time. This is great for those unexpected waits at the airport! Now he can just whip out his iPhone and resume reading his PDF copy of Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails, and make use of that 30 minutes of unexpected dead time.
- A Recipes folder, where he keeps various recipes. (Because you never know where you might be when you get hungry.)
Now, all of these items are immediately accessible when he connects to his iGet Mobile server.
The start screen includes all the items copied or aliased into the iGet Mobile Favorites folder.