I recently decided to take a larger bite into the proverbial cloud computing pie by purchasing 200G of space on Google. I’m slowly moving all my pictures to Picasa Web Albums and all my files to Google Docs.
To help with this transition, my 200G purchase included a free 4G SDHC Eye-Fi card. When I use the card in my camera, it automatically uploads the photos I take to Picasa.
Here are two photos I took and auto-uploaded to Picasa of some granola I made this afternoon:
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So far the card has worked. There are settings to automatically upload to one of many online picture sites (including Flikr, Photobucket, etc) and/or to a personal computer. You can also turn of the auto-upload and manually control when pictures are uploaded.
I was disappointed to find out that you can’t just use any wi-fi spot to upload, you have to setup each wireless network through your online Eye-Fi account before it will work. However, I think as long as you have some way of connecting to your account on the network you want to use (and you can connect your eye-fi card to the device you’re using to access the network) you can upload via any network. I will try it out at my sister’s house this evening.
