Thursday, December 23, 2010

Geeky, or lazy, or both?


I picked up a $40 Eye-fi device today. It's 4G of storage and wifi capability in an sdcard sized format that you use in your camera. It wirelessly copies photos from your camera to your computer and/or your choice of online flickr-ish picasa-ish web sites. I find the automagic moving of photos to Facebook or Flickr to be a bit trigger happy, maybe because I always take tons of photos, and then sort down to a few decent ones to post. Anyway, I configured mine to plop photos and videos onto my NAS drive, so they are then accessible from all my different devices, ipad, galaxy tab, laptops, and even on my tv (thru my PS3).

If I use FileBrowser app on my iPad, I can locally store a photo from my NAS, which then means I can pull it into BlogPress for posting here. A bit convoluted, but it gets the job done, and it means I'm not constantly pulling the sdcard out of my camera when I want to pull pictures from it, and then hand copying them to somewhere my iPad can read from.

If I like it as much as I think I will, I might get the uber sweet one that also geotags photos based on wifi location, and supports pushing RAW format.

So i wonder if getting an Eyefi is geeky, lazy, or both?

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