I take pictures of everything everywhere I go. I take pictures of pups on the streets when I stop at a stoplight. I take pictures of gatherings of me and my friends and of interesting sights I notice. I am notorious for asking all my friends to hold their forks and spoons (or chopsticks and fingers) before attacking our food so I can take pictures of what we are about to indulge in. Evidence follow: this is when we went to The Foundry to try out for which the chef Eric Greenspan won one of the categories in the Grilled Cheese Invitational Challenge. No one could touch it it until Winnie had finished taking her pictures:
I don’t always upload all my pictures to my flickr account, although I should, because I take too damn many of them. If you are like me and you have way more pictures to upload than you have time, this little gadget that I just heard about from David Pogue may help you: The Eye-Fi Explore SD memory card. It works just like any SD memory card but it has special software built in on it. Every time you enter your home wifi network, it will automatically upload the content to your home network, and then on to flickr or other photo sharing sites. How neat is that! In addition, it automatically geotags all your photos for you with a latitude and longitude from where you take them. How does it do that? Well, SkyHook has a massive database of MAC addresses of all the WiFi hotspots associated with physical addresses. The SkyHook software on the Eye-Fi card can determine where you are standing when you take the pictures by sensing the distance from these overlapping signals. It is not real GPS, it just mimics the functionality of it. For the heavily populated area, this will do the trick. The Eye-Fi Explore SD card retails for $129 and has 2GB in memory, with other models with lesser functions and thus lesser prices offered as well.
Has anyone tried this out? I’m very intrigued and maybe try this out very soon.
