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Thursday December 10, 2009

GARRY BARKER

SOMEWHERE in my attic is a massive food source for generations of silverfish: boxes of colour prints enshrining 40 years of family life. They represent two things: an outlay of several thousand dollars and the fact that no one is likely to look at them again. Such are the milestones of life.But now we are digital and all our pictures reside in iPhoto. But I have to put them there myself. There is now another way by using a wi-fi system called Eye-Fi, a 4GB SD memory card with built-in wi-fi that allows you to send pictures and video directly from camera to computer or to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa and other similar sites.The high-capacity card will hold 2000 standard pictures, Eye-Fi will handle RAW images and the software allows you to choose which to keep and/or send via email or the web and which to trash. Pictures are geo-tagged automatically and you can send Facebook or Twitter alerts when your images are online.You can use your home wi-fi or a city hot-spot. If your home computer is online, you could do it from anywhere on the planet. Otherwise, the pictures get buffered until connection is made.Eye-Fi won best-of-show at Macworld 2009 and has just been released in Australia. It retails for $165 or with a 12-month subscription to MobileMe, plus the Eye-Fi Pro card, for $273. Phone 9347 7466 or check out the Eye-Fi website at eye.fi. GARRY BARKER

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