![]() It’s not the most elegant solution (especially since the two files aren’t linked in any way), but it’s still a great way to keep track of URLs that don’t fit in Instapaper or Pocket queues.įiles are stored for 30 days and can be retrieved in the space below the send buttons. Simple URLs from Safari or Chrome show up as tappable links, but sending from an app like Apple Music or News will add a second time-stamped text file with a brief description. Any link you come across can be instantly delivered to any of your other devices by tapping the DeskConnect icon in the share menu. Instead it provides a quick tutorial on the best new feature of DeskConnect: using the sharing extension inside other apps and browsers. Tapping the fourth button, Send Websites, doesn’t actually send a URL. But either method delivers your document nearly instantly, whether you’re inches or miles away from the recipient. For example, tap Send Document and DeskConnect will bring up your favorite cloud storage location (iCloud, Dropbox, Google, etc.), letting you select which file to send and where to send it.ĭeskConnect installs as a menu bar item on a Mac.Īccomplishing the same task on a Mac, where DeskConnect only exists as a menu bar app, is a little trickier files need to be dragged up to the icon to be sent, making it more of a receiver than a sender. Weinstein may return to school after the fellowship ends in June 2016, but right now his focus is on making Workflow accessible for everyone, even those who are technologically-challenged.Inside the app there are four send buttons, three of which will deliver the appropriate item (photo, clipboard contents, or document) to one or all of your other devices. He said his parents were initially very apprehensive about his decision to leave college. The fellowship gave us the legitimacy and the resources to sustain ourselves for two years.” And I would never have been able to forgive myself if I just gave up the stuff I was working on. “But as time went on, it became clear that I would have to give up one or the other. “Even when Conrad and I decided to apply for the fellowship, I wasn't sure if it was something I actually wanted to do because I thought staying in school was the responsible thing to do. “I had a really conflicting year at MIT because I was working on DeskConnect and Workflow while trying to be a good student,” he said. He said the decision to leave MIT wasn't an easy one. “It made it a lot easier to jailbreak a long time ago, and it was downloaded like a million times,” Weinstein said. Later, he worked online to help create Jailbreak. ![]() “Jailbreaking is sort like figuring out a way to get around Apple's restrictions,” he explained.” At that time, there was no App Store.” Weinstein said when he was 13 years old, he got involved in “jailbreaking.” “When I was a kid I was really obsessed with computers,” he said. The Germantown Friends School graduate said he has always been passionate about computers. The $100,000 fellowship allowed Weinstein and Kramer to pursue their dream of owning a software development company. The two-year fellowship is given by Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, to 20 college students under the age of 20 nationwide to pursue their passions outside of the classroom. In December 2013, while still a freshman at MIT, he and Kramer applied for a Thiel Fellowship. He released his first app DeskConnect, which lets users share content between different devices – for example between your iPad and phone – during his first week as a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.īefore enrolling in MIT, Weinstein took a “gap year” to work as a software engineer at a startup company called WiFast in California. Workflow is his second successful app launch. Weinstein, a co-founder of DeskConnect is currently working on making the app even more user-friendly.Īt only 21, the Germantown Friends School graduate's future looks bright. ![]() People use the app in all sorts of interesting ways and use it in ways we would have never imagined.” “It's sort of like making your own apps but very simple. “Workflow lets you automate different things that you do every day, so you can do them with just a push of a button,” he said. Weinstein, the son of Ken Weinstein, president of Philly Office Retail, said it was “a huge honor” to be selected. When the app was released in December 2014, it was the most downloaded app in the entire App Store.Īpple said in a statement that “Workflow makes powerful automation easy and, better yet, fun.” ![]() Workflow is an app for smartphones and tablets that lets the user combine selected tasks on their phone. Airy native Ari Weinstein and two other software developers, Nick Frey and Conrad Kramer, made national headlines last month when their app Workflow won Apple's “Most Innovative App of 2015.” ![]()
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