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The only other way to view a live progress bar of uploads is if you are in front of your computer screen while snapping photos.įor the most part, the Eye-Fi can minimize the hassle of sharing and saving media. You can also opt-in to receive Twitter Direct Message notifications for the same actions. To slightly solve that issue, Eye-Fi provides the ability to receive Email notifications and SMS alerts for when uploads begin, get interrupted, resumes, or finishes. If you do turn it off during an upload, it will get interrupted, but will resume uploads once turned on.

That means you won’t know when to turn your camera off. Therefore, there’s no indicator to let you know the status of upload progress. The camera will only handle the image files. If you primarily use it in one location or happen to visit those compatible hotspots quite often, then it won’t be an issue.Īs I mentioned before, there’s no interface on the camera to manage the Eye-Fi. Since it’s simply an SD card, your camera won’t have an interface to customize those settings. If you want to connect to a new secured access point, you’ll need to have a computer with you. Another issue I faced was in regards to convenience. For example, my laptop and mobile phone were able to connect to my access point, but the Eye-Fi card in my camera wasn’t able to get signal from the same spot. While photos transferred rapidly when near an access point, it wouldn’t work as far away as other WiFi enabled devices did. Since the WiFi chip inside is so small and very low powered, it doesn’t do so well when it comes to picking signal. The card worked great, but there are some issues that need to be mentioned. From my own testing, I found that it was actually quite accurate. As long as you are in range of a mapped wireless access point WPS should be able to get 20-30 meter accuracy of your location. The company has partnered with Skyhook Wireless which has mapped out 70% of the United States with over 100 million wireless access points so the geotagging feature will work even without being connected to a wireless hotspot. It works, but it’s not always entirely accurate. Therefore, the Eye-Fi uses WPS (Wi-Fi Positioning System) to find your location using nearby Wi-Fi networks. As expected, it’s probably not possible to fit a real GPS module into a SD card. Unfortunately it doesn’t work as you might expect. Many tools such as Flickr and Google Picasa offer viewing your images on maps. The Eye-Fi embeds geotags into all your images. It also downloads a copy to your computer if it has the Eye-Fi Manager installed. If you’re a bit of a geek, the Eye-Fi supports dropping image files straight into an FTP server and offers RSS feeds. For auto-uploads to printing services, Eye-Fi supports Costco, ShutterFly, SnapFish, and Walmart. There’s support for blogging platforms including Movable Type, TypePad, and VOX. It’s easy to enable uploading to photo sharing services such as Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, and a few more. The web interface allows you to view media, enable geo-tagging, view geographical locations of photos on a map, and set upload notifications. Unlike the WiFi setup, where you need to physically insert it into a computer, most of the other settings are managed through Eye-Fi’s website. It’s easy to customize the way your media is handled. (There are about 10,000 Wayport locations, e.g.

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The card also automatically connects to Wayport public hotspots for free for an year with this model. Although the card will automatically connect to unsecured networks, you’ll have to plug it into a computer each time you want to configure it for secured ones. The program will take you through a quick setup process to configure your card for WiFi networks.

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There’s a small application you’ll have to install on either your Macintosh or Windows machine. Just plug the card into your computer using the included USB card reader or your own. The model we were provided was the Eye-Fi Explore Video. It’s simple, once setup properly, snap a photo and images will automatically be uploaded straight from your digital camera to just about any media sharing service. The product aims to eliminate some of those steps. Traditionally, one would copy photos on a memory card over to a computer, then upload images to their favorite picture sharing sites such as Flickr. Eye-Fi is a Wi-Fi enabled SD card that enables any standard digital camera to wirelessly upload photos and videos to the web and your computer.

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