This is pretty cool for amateur photographers *PIC*

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Posted By: Zach (70.181.155.241)
Date: Friday, 31 July 2009, at 1:16 p.m.

$60 is a pretty hefty premium to pay nowadays for a 2GB memory card, but this one might just be worth it. I decided to roll the dice on it, because I'm really bad about uploading photos from my camera to my Mac. About once every 3 or 4 months, I have a lot of photos to sort through and organize then. If you aren't familiar w/ the Eye-fil cards they wirelessly transfer your photos to your computer, so you never have to connect your camera or remove the card. this one has a little something extra which convinced me to try it (vide infra).
First, I was surprised that it came with a card reader, which is good because mine can be flaky. So that's like $10 right there. Setup was pretty easy. I had to start an Eye-Fi account but so far they aren't mailing me shit everyday so that's a plus. Connecting the card to my network is the one con I have so far. It's not a big deal, but I couldn't get it to work until I turned SSID broadcasting on for my router. Once connected, it still worked when I turned SSID broadcasting back off, so no permanent problem anyway.
i had to change the default settings to go directly to iPhoto rather than a folder on my Mac. When you take a picture, the file gets sent within maybe 20 seconds and you get a little downloading thumbnail in the upper right hand corner of the screen. iPhoto doesn't actually import any photos until you launch it the next time (or I suppose if it were still open). This is good though, i wouldn't want it launching automatically all the time. What's even cooler is you can set it up to relay the photos back to your machine. So if your computer is off, the photos upload to temporary storage on the Eye-fi servers and when your machine is up and running again, they transfer from the server. This is a free service, BTW. Not sure how much storage they will allot to you though. I also don't know if it will transfer over any open wifi it finds or if it has to be programmed into your card. I suppose I'll know eventually.
Now for the really cool part which is how I justified the purchase. It automatically geo-tags your photos by triangulating it's position from wifi networks around. Obviously this will not work if there are no wifi networks, so in the wilderness you're out of luck. But it seems to work pretty well. And it doesn't need open networks to figure out the location. Pretty cool technology. I haven't tried it in more than a couple locations so far, so maybe I've just been lucky. But so far the whole experience is better than I thought it would be.

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This is pretty cool for amateur photographers *PIC*
Zach (70.181.155.241) -- Friday, 31 July 2009, at 1:16 p.m.
- Good to hear!
  J242 (68.209.82.111) -- Friday, 31 July 2009, at 2:55 p.m.
  - Re: Good to hear!
    Zach (70.181.155.241) -- Saturday, 1 August 2009, at 4:21 a.m.

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Message: : $60 is a pretty hefty premium to pay nowadays for a 2GB memory card, but this : one might just be worth it. I decided to roll the dice on it, because I'm : really bad about uploading photos from my camera to my Mac. About once : every 3 or 4 months, I have a lot of photos to sort through and organize : then. If you aren't familiar w/ the Eye-fil cards they wirelessly transfer : your photos to your computer, so you never have to connect your camera or : remove the card. this one has a little something extra which convinced me : to try it ( vide infra ). : First, I was surprised that it came with a card reader, which is good because : mine can be flaky. So that's like $10 right there. Setup was pretty easy. : I had to start an Eye-Fi account but so far they aren't mailing me shit : everyday so that's a plus. Connecting the card to my network is the one : con I have so far. It's not a big deal, but I couldn't get it to work : until I turned SSID broadcasting on for my router. Once connected, it : still worked when I turned SSID broadcasting back off, so no permanent : problem anyway. : i had to change the default settings to go directly to iPhoto rather than a : folder on my Mac. When you take a picture, the file gets sent within maybe : 20 seconds and you get a little downloading thumbnail in the upper right : hand corner of the screen. iPhoto doesn't actually import any photos until : you launch it the next time (or I suppose if it were still open). This is : good though, i wouldn't want it launching automatically all the time. : What's even cooler is you can set it up to relay the photos back to your : machine. So if your computer is off, the photos upload to temporary : storage on the Eye-fi servers and when your machine is up and running : again, they transfer from the server. This is a free service, BTW. Not : sure how much storage they will allot to you though. I also don't know if : it will transfer over any open wifi it finds or if it has to be programmed : into your card. I suppose I'll know eventually. : Now for the really cool part which is how I justified the purchase. It : automatically geo-tags your photos by triangulating it's position from : wifi networks around. Obviously this will not work if there are no wifi : networks, so in the wilderness you're out of luck. But it seems to work : pretty well. And it doesn't need open networks to figure out the location. : Pretty cool technology. I haven't tried it in more than a couple locations : so far, so maybe I've just been lucky. But so far the whole experience is : better than I thought it would be.
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