A simple solution to a challenging problem

Portable devices are great for keep­ing you close to your infor­ma­tion, but they are not so great when you need to enter lots of data. AirAc­cess is an easy-to-use appli­ca­tion for your Mac that gives you com­plete access to Life­Topix run­ning on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

Installing AirAccess

The installer mod­ule for AirAc­cess is avail­able from Apple’s Mac App Store. Once you have down­loaded the AirAc­cess installer mod­ule, run it by dou­ble-click­ing on the mod­ule icon.

By default, AirAc­cess is installed in your sys­tem’s Appli­ca­tions fold­er and avail­able for use by all user accounts.

Running AirAccess

To run AirAc­cess, dou­ble-click its icon in the Appli­ca­tions fold­er on your Mac.

When AirAc­cess is not con­nect­ed to a device, Not con­nect­ed will appear in the bot­tom sta­tus bar, fol­lowed by a red dot. When AirAc­cess is con­nect­ed to a device, Con­nect­ed will appear in the bot­tom sta­tus bar, fol­lowed by a green dot.

The first time you run AirAc­cess, you will see a pop­up titled Con­nect to a Life­Topix Device, fol­lowed by a list of devices that AirAc­cess can detect. If you do not see the device to which you wish to con­nect, then make sure all the fol­low­ing are true:

  • Wi-Fi is enabled via Set­tings on that device and the device is con­nect­ed to a net­work to which your Mac has access
  • AirAc­cess is enabled via Life­Topix Set­tings > My Set­tings on that device
  • Life­Topix is run­ning in the fore­ground on that device

Select the device to which you wish to con­nect, then click Con­nect. If you wish to con­nect to the same device every time, then click the check­box next to Remem­ber this device before you click Con­nect.

For secu­ri­ty rea­sons, the con­nec­tion request from AirAc­cess to an iOS device must be accept­ed from the iOS device itself. Once you click Con­nect in AirAc­cess, you will be prompt­ed to accept the incom­ing con­nec­tion request on the device. Do so by tap­ping Accept on the device.

Once the con­nec­tion has been estab­lished, it can be halt­ed from the device by tap­ping Can­cel, or from AirAc­cess by click­ing the X in the upper right of the AirAc­cess main view.

Using AirAccess

AirAc­cess allows you to inter­act with the fol­low­ing types of Life­Topix items on your iOS device:

  • Tasks
  • Notes (includ­ing hybrid Ever­note notes‡)
  • Book­marks
  • Files and Fold­ers
  • Quick Inbox
  • Projects
  • Events
  • Trips
  • Vis­i­tors
  • Ser­vice Providers
  • Assets

‡ A hybrid Ever­note note is a note that has been down­loaded from Ever­note to your device or a Life­Topix note which you have synced with Ever­note.

Click on an item type in the col­umn on the left to view a list of all exist­ing items of that type.

To edit an exist­ing item, click on the item in the main view pan­el, mod­i­fy its details in the sec­tion below the main view pan­el, then click Save.

To add a new item, click Add just above the main view pan­el, enter the infor­ma­tion for the new item, then click Save.

Note that for Files and Fold­ers, you can only view the con­tents of exist­ing files and fold­ers or down­load files from those fold­ers; you can­not delete exist­ing files or fold­ers nor can you add new files or fold­ers. Also, in this release of AirAc­cess, you  can­not delete exist­ing items of any type.

For more infor­ma­tion on the capa­bil­i­ties of each Life­Topix item type, refer to the Life­Topix online doc­u­men­ta­tion.

Quitting or disconnecting AirAccess

To dis­con­nect AirAc­cess from a device, tap Can­cel on the device or click in AirAc­cess. To con­nect AirAc­cess to a device, click in AirAc­cess.

Note: In this release, the AirAc­cess appli­ca­tion can­not  be resized.

Refer to Getting Started for more information.