The Eye-Fi Share has Arrived!

Just after CES I posted an article about Eye-Fi’s visit to CntrStg and my experiences using an Eye-Fi card for taking pictures at CntrStg. After a little shopping around and a minor shipping issue with my order from Amazon, I finally have it in my hands. I had a small problem getting the card setup, when I inserted it into my laptop, I was prompted with the regular windows prompt asking what I wanted to do with this card. I selected to run the Eye-Fi installer, but was quickly greeted with a message that the AutoRun application has stopped working. At first, I thought it was a simple one time thing, but after a couple more attempts and even after trying on a XP based computer, it was obvious that the installer was having problems. Thankfully, Eye-Fi has the setup application available as a download from their website. It didn’t take long to download and configure the card. The setup was very easy to do and within a couple minutes I was taking pictures and having them automatically transferred to my computer. With the great weather we had here yesterday, I was outside snapping pictures of the kids riding their bikes and by the time I got inside they were already on my hard drive and uploaded to my picture gallery. How awesome is that!

(The above picture was taken without using the Eye-Fi card in the camera for obvious reasons.)

I decided not to get the Geotag / WiFi hotspots option because most of the pictures I’ll be taking are going to be around the house. There’s a really good chance that I’ll add those features before the next family vacation. Until then, I’m more than happy with uploading to my computer and SmugMug account.