AirDrop

Top

Home > Library > Miscellaneous > Wikipedia

AirDrop is a Wi-Fi ad-hoc service in Apple's Mac OS X Lion 10.7. Using AirDrop, you can share files with other computers which also have AirDrop installed without the need of a Wi-Fi network or any configuration and without the need of USB mass-storage devices.

AirDrop is limited to these models and newer:

MacBook Pro (Late 2008 or newer)
- The MacBook Pro (17-Inch Late 2008) and the white MacBook (Late 2008) do not support AirDrop.
MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer)
MacBook (Late 2008 or newer)*
iMac (Early 2009 or newer)
Mac Mini (Mid 2010 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2009 with AirPort Extreme card, or Mid 2010)

AirDrop is also available on Hackintoshes (generic PCs which have had MacOS X Lion installed on them) and which have AirDrop-supported WiFi cards, such as Broadcom's 4322/94322. Despite Apple's claimed restrictions, hackers have found that Airdrop can be enabled on any Mac running OS X Lion, and will work over ethernet as well. It can be enabled with a shell command.^[1]

References

^ http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/16/enable-airdrop-ethernet-and-unsupported-macs/

OS X

Versions

Applications

Address Book Automator Calculator Calendar Chess Contacts Dashboard Dictionary DVD Player FaceTime Finder Grapher iCal iSync iTunes (version history) Mac App Store Mail Messages Photo Booth Preview QuickTime Safari (version history) Stickies TextEdit

Discontinued	Front Row iChat iSync

Utilities

Activity Monitor AirPort Utility Archive Utility Audio MIDI Setup Bluetooth File Exchange ColorSync Console Crash Reporter DigitalColor Meter Directory Utility DiskImageMounter Disk Utility Font Book Grab Help Viewer Image Capture Installer Keychain Access Migration Assistant Network Utility ODBC Administrator Remote Install Mac OS X Screen Sharing System Preferences System Profiler Terminal Universal Access VoiceOver

Discontinued	Software Update X11.app

Technology and user interface

AirDrop Command key Option key Apple menu Apple Push Notification Service AppleScript Aqua Audio Units Bonjour Boot Camp BootX Brushed metal Carbon Cocoa ColorSync Core Animation Core Audio Core Data Core Foundation Core Image Core OpenGL Core Text Core Video CUPS Cover Flow Darwin Dock Exposé FileVault Gatekeeper Grand Central Dispatch icns Inkwell I/O Kit Kernel panic Keychain launchd Launchpad Mach-O MacRuby Menu extra OpenCL Preference Pane Property list Quartz QuickTime Quick Look Smart Folders Spaces Speakable items Spotlight Stacks Time Machine Uniform Type Identifier Universal binary WebKit Xgrid XNU

Discontinued	Classic Environment Rosetta

This computing article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)

Donate to Wikimedia

Help us answer these

Can a sentence start out as Clustered in an airship waiting for an airdrop sweating from the heat of the rest of the men?

Which type of airdrop is used to feed stranded animals in a winter storm?

Which type of airdrop requires large clear drop zones because they usually consist of large complex loads?

What was the purpose of the flat nose on many early airdrop nuclear bombs - beginning with the MK-4 added to stockpile shortly after World War 2?

Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:

Copyrights:

Cite

Wikipedia on Answers.com This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article AirDrop. Read