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Eye-Fi adds MobileMe support
Eye-Fi has announced that their eponymous SD memory card with built-in WiFi is getting faster and adding MobileMe support. The Eye-Fi allows you to automatically upload photos from your SD card compatible camera to your Mac or a variety of online services like Flickr, SmugMug, and now MobileMe. The update will be available on October 5 and is also backwards compatible to existing Eye-Fi cards with upgrade fees. Other additions include Eye-Fi's own web gallery, geotagging support (via a similar mechanism to the original iPhone), and Wayport / open hotspot support, each for additional annual fees.
The Eye-Fi cards come in three flavors: Home, Share, and Explore. Home ($79.99) is limited to uploads on your home WiFi network to your home computer; Share ($99.99) allows broader WiFi access and uploading to web galleries; Explore ($129.99) also adds geotagging.
[via Engadget]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
MILE said 3:36PM on 9-24-2008
While I do love the idea I'd rather spend less than 15 $ (or around 10 Euro over here) on a regular 2GB SD card and do the uploading manually, thanxalot...!
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Mel said 3:57PM on 9-24-2008
So this means that if a camera got stolen and the memory card was in it, you can go back home and take off all of the pictures from the camrea? if so, this is sooo cool!!
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Ashwin Narasimhan said 8:37PM on 9-24-2008
No, it wouldn't do what you are describing. You would have to be on the same Wi-Fi network, and chances are, that unless you live in an apartment, and the camera was stolen by your neighbor, you wouldn't be on the same network.
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Kent said 9:15PM on 9-24-2008
I got one of these last Christmas. For some reason, not all the pictures get uploaded to my iMac. Say I've got 100 pictures on the card, about 4-5 will fail to wireless transfer over my home wi-fi network to my iMac. No matter how many times I powercycle the camera or the iMac, these 4-5 pictures never make it. Instead, I have to manually put the EyeFi card into a reader and transfer to my iMac. Sort of defeats the purpose.
However, there is one very cool application that makes it worth it. I shot pictures at a big dinner party one night. I setup my MacBook Pro in the foyer, associated the MacBook Pro with the dinner host's wi-fi network, and shot pictures with my Nikon D40 all night. All my pictures were automatically and wirelessly transferred to my MacBook Pro into a folder. I set the screen saver to that folder so the pictures I was taking flashed up on the MacBook Pro's screen. At the same time, the MacBook Pro automatically uploaded the pictures to Picasa so they were available online even before the party was over. Pretty cool, and everyone got a kick out of seeing the pictures so fast. They'd walk up to the MacBook Pro thinking it was showing pictures from some past party, and they'd say "Wow, that's tonight!"
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Samuel said 9:35PM on 9-24-2008
Pat on the back to Eye-Fi, when I first saw this device I thought I would disapear. I wanted it because there was no iPhone and no camer (point-and-shoot) with GPS. Now there is, but this is still a great piece of engineering!
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