Eye-Fi: Look Ma, No Wires!
The Digital World's virtues -- faster, smaller, more portable, etc. -- are also one's undoing if you happen to be a trifle absent-minded. I probably waste a cumulative hour a week searching my pockets for the cellphone, the digital camera or the iPod Touch. Pathetic, I know. Which is why I am so enamored of the new Eye-Fi Share Video wireless memory card, a Wi-Fi-enabled SD storage device for your digital camera that instantly uploads photos to your computer or even the website of your choice (Facebook, Flickr and such like). You needn't remove it from the camera, insert it somewhere else, nor click your mouse till your wrists need physical therapy.
It takes just minutes to configure the Eye-Fi with your home computer, at which time you can select which photo-sharing websites you'd like to upload to. The 4GB card holds up to 2,000 photos or ninety minutes of video, all for about $80 smackers, a swell value indeed. The card is compatible with hundreds of digital cameras, but check the website to make sure it works with yours. Eye-Fi also makes a 2GB version and a Pro card that transmits RAW images and streamlines the workflow when you're shooting those barely-clad models in Fiji.
About this blog
A Detroit native, David Weiss fled Motown for Los Angeles in 1978 and began to write for Daily Variety and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, primarily as a music critic with a focus on jazz. His own music career started soon thereafter, with the surrealistic funk band Was (Not Was), then various gigs as a composer and producer, working with Bob Dylan and Rickie Lee Jones among others. In a parallel universe, Weiss has been filing golf and travel stories for T&L Golf, Golfweek and The New York Times and is a regular contributor to NPR's "Day to Day" program, doing stories on music and all things cultural.
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