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Eye-Fi, Wireless SD Card

On next, all the equipment will be wireless, so file and media will automatically run with portable devices such as PDA, media players and digital cameras. Until that day, It would not been efficient to take photos from a digital camera, then connect the cable connector to the computer, install the software application, upload files, and shut down application, and then disconnect USB cable and cameras.

However, this problem will be solved with the Eye-Fi from the primary (Secure Digital) cards Wi-Fi, which is a standard SD memory with a wireless network Wi-Fi built-in, so it will facilitate the uploading files in the range of any wireless networks. Eye-Fi SD card works with many digital camera models, with a capacity of 2 GB to accommodate images.

To use Eye-Fi SD card, the user must set the wireless interface before by connecting USB reader on a PC or Mac, then run Eye-Fi Manager software. Then the user can set the wireless and specify the location for the placement of files to be transferred in a local computer user’s machine and run the software for Eye-Fi, or for sharing photos on website via Eye-Fi website service.

To use the software Eye-Fi Manager, a user must first create an account on server and the Eye-Fi Internet connection to run the software, even though the file transfer is only sent to the local. Then the user can configure the Eye-Fi SD card for connecting it to wireless network, and specify photos online and folder in the computer or a local file for uploading. Then the user can let Eye-Fi Manager to communicate with Eye-Fi card and save the file to the computer. Users can also upload photos to share via website directly from the Eye-Fi SD card to certain sites such as Facebook, Kodak Gallery, Cosco, Walmart, Picasa, Shutterfly, Snapfish, and Photobucket.