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Eye-Fi does video with new 4GB Explore Video and Share Video cards

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Eye-fi

Eye-fi

Engadget comes through again: the WiFi SD card maker is adding video sharing to its repertoire. The new Explore Video and Share Video cards bring video sharing and 4GB capacities to the existing photo sharing lineup. The new cards go for $99 and $79, respectively, while the old 2GB Eye-Fi Home and Eye-Fi Share cards have been marked down to $49 and $59 each. The cards can handle uploads to YouTube and Flickr, and are built for HD uploads, and naturally the Explore card adds the hotspot service and geotagging on top of regular service. You can pre-order the cards today, and they should be shipping by the end of the month. Eye-Fi is also releasing a free iPhone app (as promised) this week, which works with your existing Eye-Fi account (yeah, you need to own a card) and allows you to upload iPhone shots to the same 25 services the SD cards work with, along with the computer syncing Eye-Fi is known.

Technical Details
Uploads photos automatically from Eye-Fi Card inside your camera. Built-in Wi-Fi connects to your home network
Provides free and unlimited photo uploads to your computer and your favorite photo or social networking website. Photo transmission is secure and private
Supports sharing and printing websites, including Fotki, Shutterfly, dotPhoto, webshots, phanfare, Picasa Web albums, flickr, TypePad, Wal-Mart, snapfish, VOX, smugmug, facebook, photobucket, Kodak Gallery, and Sharpcast
Handles full-resolution jpeg images and intelligently re-sizes photos if limited by your chosen photo or social networking website
Fits digital cameras that use SD memory cards and offers 2 GB of memory to store photos on the card

Technical Details
Brand Name: Eye-Fi
Model: EYE-FI-2GB
Memory Storage Capacity: 2 GB
device_type: Wireless SD memory card
form_factor: Plug-in module
Hardware Platform: PC, Mac

What Eight Tech Habits Need to Go?

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Stopwatch

Stopwatch

These eight bad tech habits are a reminder of just common courtesy in today’s world.

Bad habits are harder to break than than a bad habit. Especially when they involve your shiny shiny new electronic toy. I know, I have several myself. SO, without further rambling, here they are:

1. Watching your iPhone (or blackberry or palm pre or…) on your first date. Or while out with your wife or girlfriend/significant other. For some reason, the person we’re with is aggravated we’re paying more attention to the wonderful little device in our hot little hands than hearing them talk. On and on. Well, suck it up, bud and put the toy away and concentrate on the hot body in the chair across from you.

2. Stop taking embarrassing pictures of yourself and your buddies with your wonderful little device thats in your hot little hands. Just because you *have* the ability to take 10 mp pictures 110 frames a second then Eye-Fi them directly to facebook, doesn’t mean you should. Your or his/their jobs could be over.

3. You know not to drink and drive, how about not texting and driving? Texting and driving has been shown to be the same as drinking and driving. Your reflexes and attention are impaired.

4. So, you’re surfing on your killer phone while driving your date to the restaurant. You come across a funny post on youtube and discover no one else has commented. What do you do? Be the first and write “FIRST, DUDE!” No. That just proves you have no life. Say something intelligent like “Your video reminds me of Faust.” Even if it is something embarrassing.

5. Please stop sending and forwarding “New virus will wipe out your memory….and cause your computer to go blank”. If you question the truth about a warning, head on over to Snopes.

6. Also, if you’re chatting and you come across something you dont’ understand, Google it yourself. You’re not so helpless and lazy that you have to ask the other person ten times in a row to look something up for you. Not that it’s happend to me. Ten times in a row.

7. If you absolutely cannot put your iPhone (or Blackberry or Palm…) down for one hour while you have dinner with your date, do not answer it. If you do answer it, it isn’t necessary to treat everyone within 200 feet to your conversation. You may not be aware, but you’re yelling. Yes, about that embarrassing picture you took of your buddy and posted on youtube. He’s saying something about Faust. Or at least that’s what your date is hoping.

8. Apparantly there was somthing called Rickroll that was funny to pull on your friends. I just watched it. Please stop.

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