Eye-Fi SD card, Upload images to your Flickr and other sites directly from your digital camera

I would love all cameras to have built in wi-fi so that we can upload the pictures to Flickr or other sites without having to download the images to a computer first. I know now there are couple of cameras that do this but mine is an older camera and I am not looking to upgrade camera anytime soon.

I had heard about these Eye-Fi cards and when I saw one at a electronic store in Tokyo, I decided to get one and try it out.

It looks like a regular SD card that goes into your camera but this one has a wi-fi antenna built in. Where? you will ask, the card is so thin. Yes that’s what I thought too. But it really is there – such wonders of science and technology these days.

First you must configure the card by plugging it into your computer via an USB card reader (supplied in the box). There is software inside the SD card that installs the software drivers and a manager utility. With the manager utility, you can tell the Eye-Fi cards
1)What wi-fi networks you want to use and
2) What services (Flickr etc.) you would like to use to upload pictures.

Once you have configured the card, just slot it in to your camera.

Now as you take pictures, the Eye-Fi will keep uploading them to your online photo storage.

Some pictures we were taking in a pub in Bangkok and seeing them come up on Flickr instantly.

I am often at events and meet live bloggers or twitterers who are frantically trying to post text, picture and videos of the happenings. This eye-fi card could be useful to them.