Getting Pages, Numbers or Kenote files off the iPad for further use or editing is a pain. But using a service like DropDAV and DropBox now it is very easy.

There are currently two services set up to allow access to a Dropbox account as a WebDAV (a fancy word for sharing files over the Internet), which is a feature built into Pages, Keynote, and Numbers.

Before Dropbox became popular, there was iDisk, which was Apple’s cloud storage system. iDisk allowed you to store documents, pictures, QuickTime files, and PDFs in one cloud-based “drive ...