Black Friday isn’t the only time you can find great tech gifts that won’t bust your budget. We’ve pulled together the best products from this year’s Gift Guides that cost $50 or less. Find the perfect accessory for iPhones and iPads, Android tablets and smartphones, cameras and MP3 players. There are also some sweet gifts [...]
This week my family and I will be leaving on a long two-week trip around the Southeastern United States taking some of our favorite mobile tech toys with us. I thought I’d share with you what we are taking to make the journey fun and efficient. Last summer our editor Josh Smith took what he [...]
Eye-fi is launching a new 8GB SD card called Eye-Fi Mobile X2 that takes advantage of the Direct Mode capability announced at CES 2011. With the new higher capacity wireless SD card photographers can instantly and automatically transfer their full-resolution photos from their camera directly to a Wi-fi enabled iOS or Android device so long [...]
Over at Notebooks.com this morning we found a collection of interesting news and shared a review of a Android smartphone that doesn’t require a contract and has plans starting at $25 a month. First up is our full review of the LG Optimus V from Virign Mobile. This Android smartphone is available for $149.99 without a contract and has [...]
Most folks have heard of Eye-Fi. It’s a service that, using an SD card allows you to quickly upload pictures from your digital camera to your online photo sites. Eye-Fi has even branched out to include an iPhone App as well. It is a handy service if you’re connected and there are a variety of [...]
Couple of announcements out of Eye-fi today. The major news is that Eye-fi X2 cards are now capable of connecting to wifi hotspots that require webpage logins. Also, their new Geo X2 card is going on sale next month exclusively through Apple stores.
Eye- Fi announced today that they’re filling out the rest of their X2 line with double the capacity and 802.11n, adding Connect and Explore models to the previously released Pro X2. In addition, they’ve added even more hotspots to their upload service, doubling their number.
Sifting through the noise about the iPad this morning, I’ve come across a few expressions of puzzlement over the camera connector accessories. Warner scratched his head about this too when he covered the accessories yesterday. Certainly we can all see why the iPad should have included a built-in SD slot and/or USB port, but I’m [...]
Sometimes my memory seems endless, or perhaps it just seems like it is never ending. It doesn’t matter. One thing you can count on at CES 2010 is that Eye-Fi will come out with another updated version of their excellent SD cards that allow for video and photos to be uploaded on the fly. This [...]
If you’re an avid photo and video sharer or looking to become one, Google has a deal for you: sign up for 200GB of web storage at $50 a year and they’ll send you a 4GB Eye-Fi Home video SDHC card for free. Just slide that card into your compatible camera, snap away, and your [...]
Last night I went to the Digital Summer party at Temple, a nightspot in San Francisco. It was a celebration of technology mixed with a fashion show. Liana Burtsava and Eliane Fiolet from Ubergizmo and Girls in Tech hosted the event. Intel, HP, Coveroo and Eye-Fi were all there showing off their wares and the [...]
I wish everything worked this easily. I finally got my hands on a Novatel MiFi 2200 card via Sprint and what a treat for a mobile geek who uses multiple devices. The MiFi card turns you into a walking hotspot. It accesses the Sprint 3G network and then puts out a WiFi signal that up [...]
Mobile tech enthusiast, semi-regular ink blogger, and regularly fun all-format blogger Jezlyn posted a big, beefy write-up of her “ultimate” wireless photo upload setup on Late to the Party. It’s an epic tale of triumph and tragedy as she pits her photographic steel against an Eye-fi wifi SD card, iPhone, Nokia N95, Sony Ericsson P1i, [...]
Ziv Gillat of Eye-Fi showed me the new Eye-Fi Pro yesterday. As Warner mentioned in a blog post yesterday, the Eye-Fi Pro is an SD card that can send JPG and RAW images directly to your computer via your home network or an ad-hoc network. In this InkShow, Ziv tells us about all of the [...]
It’s easy to take tech for granted when you live in an area that’s home to so many techies and the companies they’ve built. But every once in a while I still get a rush when I realize the density of cool companies we have here. I met with Ziv Gillat, one of Eye-Fi’s [...]
I’m in the parking lot at WalMart while my son is inside soliciting donations for his Eagle Scout project. I thought I’d take this little bit of free time to play with the Verizon MiFi 2200. Here’s how things are going.
The folks behind the Eye-Fi Card keep doling out new and better things and this latest edition to the Eye-Fi arsenal is pretty sweet. They’ve created an Eye-Fi app for the iPhone that allows users who have an Eye-Fi card to send photos wirelessly from your iPhone to your computer or the online repositories you’ve [...]
Xavier has the details on Notebooks.com but Eye-Fi has just put a new Eye-Fi card that uploads video from your digital camera to Flickr and YouTube on the market for $99. The new cards are the 4GB Explore Video ($79) and the 4GB Share Video ($79) and you can purchase them at www.eye.fi. Xavier also [...]
Evernote and Eye-Fi have teamed up to offer a limited time offer on Eye-Fi cards at $30 – $40 off. Head over for all the details. via MediaBistro
The Eye-Fi folks just keep on churning out new products to make moving your photographic memories directly on-line or on to your network, The latest announcement is a new Eye-Fi card that will upload video directly to YouTube. This sounds like a winner and they are looking to include HD video with the service as [...]
Speaking of imperfect technologies that I love, two of my favorites just announced that they were teaming up. You can now use an Eye-Fi card to send your pictures directly to Evernote. This service is launching today. Essentially, if you have an Eye-Fi card in your camera and set up Evernote as a service you [...]
One of the best purchases I made last year was an Eye-Fi card, which I bought when they first came out. The Eye-Fi allows you to snap pictures and upload them via Wi-Fi to your computer via your network or a number of partner sites like Flickr, SmugMug, etc Eye-Fi has since gone through a [...]
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