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Eye-Fi update

cmoates — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:25:24 +0000

I have been wanting to comment on my experience with the Eye-Fi after having owned it awhile now. I really love it. I still haven’t had time to get the Linux software working with it, which would solve all of my complaints, like automatic uploading to F-Spot in Linux. However, the device works perfectly, and I use it all the time. Someone asks for a picture of XYZ, I take a picture, wait 45 seconds for it to show up on Picasa, and email them the link. Yes, I could plug it into the computer, and upload it to Picasa, but that’s more work. Fire and forget is a nice feature.

So in short, I highly recommend the Eye-Fi. It’s really not terribly expensive, and has some nice features.

Eye-Fi update

cmoates — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:21:30 +0000

We’ve had the Eye-Fi here for several days now. I have to admit, they have user interface and initial setup for this device down cold. I was shocked at how polished and simple they made the entire process, but kudos to them for doing so.

After initial configuration, I had to “format” the card in my Canon Rebel XSi. Following that, I snapped a few pictures, and they magically made their way to Picasa, just as promised. Pretty cool.

I haven’t had time to look into the open source app that talks to the eye-fi. That’s next on my list though, as there’s a limitation to the Eye-Fi that I’d like to get around. While you can have multiple providers set up (Flickr, Picasa, etc) you can only upload to one of them at a time. I’d like to have pictures available for Maggie’s Flickr and my Picasa. I don’t even really care too much about them going online automatically, as much as having them on the server automatically. But uploading directly to the web is super handy.

Eye-Fi

cmoates — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:43:54 +0000

A long time ago, Eye-Fi came to market. It wasn’t cheap at the time, but was a really neat concept. You take a picture with your camera, and voila, it’s on the web. Super cool. I’ve been doing more photography lately, and it’d be awfully convenient to have this kind of feature, so I was toying with picking up one.

Turns out Best Buy has the Eye-Fi share (their midrange card) on sale right now for $60. Throw in the $50 gift card that my lovely wife bought me for Christmas, and it’s a $10 toy. Not bad. Next up, though, I want to use it with linux, not windows. Turns out someone (very recently) came up with a standalone server in Python to do this: http://returnbooleantrue.blogspot.com/2009/01/eye-fi-standalone-server.html

Now I’m stoked. I’ll get it working in Linux and I’ll get wifi direct from the camera. Stay tuned to hear how my experiences work over the next week.