Trouble syncing documents by wifi or bluetooth

Hi
I am trying to transfer some docs from my macbook pro to ipad either via wifi or bluetooth. Neither are connecting.
I have blue tooth on on both devices, and my laptop sees my ipad as a device in its bluetooth settings but when trying to connect to it says bluetooth connection not available. Laptop connects fine to other bluetooth devices I have. On the ipad, ipad cant discover the laptop when it turn on bluetooth button on ipad.
On laptop i have Snow Leo 10.6.8
Via wifi, no idea how to do this
Help!
Thanks!

iOS does not have a way to file share over Bluetooth, you must use an application. I have used AirSharing, which is great over WiFi. I am sure there are many others. I think a lot of the "pro" versions of these apps allow for Bluetooth sharing, although it is much slow going.

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