Maculous > Review: Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card, Wi-Fi for Digital Cameras

Macs Are Great! has tested the Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card, a truly unique concept that brings 2012 technology to the 2007 holiday shopping season. This ordinary sized SD memory card contains a wi-fi chipset. After using your Mac or PC to configure it with the details of your open, WEP, or WPA protected wireless network, you simply put the card in your digital camera, and when you take a photo it is automatically uploaded to your computer, a selected online photo service, or both.

We took a few screenshots of the OS X installer as we were setting up the card. It works well sending files via Wi-Fi on a Macbook Pro using an 802.11g WAP with WPA2 password protection. We also setup a free Google Picasa photo hosting account, and uploaded some photos there directly from the camera. This might make a great gift for a geek of the Mac or PC variety.

The manufacturer lists many brands of digital cameras as being compatible, we used a Canon SD950IS. Of course you should expect the added energy required to transmit your photos to have some impact on battery life. You can even buy the card in the Macs Are Great Store.

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