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Toshiba’s Wireless SD Goes Both Ways

6:00AM September 2, 2011 | Mario Aguilar

Wireless SD cards are a smart product for forgetful/lazy/busy people. Toshiba’s new FlashAir card is the first which allows you to transfer data both to and from the card — an idea that’s got a lot of potential. More »


Cameras

Eye-Fi Mobile X2 SD Card: Screw A Computer, Send Those Photos Straight To Your Mobile Devices

6:30AM July 6, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The Eye-Fi Mobile X2 does everything the previous Eye-Fi(s) did – upload photos to your computer and online – over a Wi-Fi network. The Mobile X2 has a new trick: It’ll zap photos to and from your Android and iOS devices. More »


Cameras

Eye-Fi’s Direct Beam Mode Now Works

8:37AM April 21, 2011 | Adrian Covert

When the Eye-Fi X2 Wi-Fi SD card appeared, it introduced a new feature, Direct Beam, which opens a direct connection with Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. Now the necessary apps for those devices have arrived. [Rob Galbraith via Engadget]


Mobile

Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card Can Use Any Phone To Upload Photos

3:25PM January 7, 2011 | John Herrman

Having an Eye-Fi wireless SD card in your camera is useful, but only if there’s a wireless network to connect to. Soon, though, anyone with an Eye-Fi X2 will be able to upload photos through their phone’s 3G connection. More »


Watch Samsung Put A Memory Card Through SD Hell

8:40AM September 28, 2010 | Brian Barrett

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Where do bad memory cards go when they die? Probably somewhere very similar to this puppy, paintball and tiny-hat filled obstacle course of doom. Warning: This video contains extreme SD brutality. More »


Software

How To: Automatically Upload Pictures To The Internet As You Take Them

1:20AM August 26, 2010 | Alan Fackler - MaximumPC

Although technological advances have made uploading photos easier over the years, it’s still impossible to have pictures you take with your DSLR transmitted immediately and automatically to the internet. Or is it? More »


Why Don’t We Have A 2-in-1 iPad Camera Connection Kit Yet?

9:23PM August 9, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Remember how the iPad camera connection kit was really hard to get hold of? How they were going for close to $US200 on eBay? Chinese iPad users are using this handy $US26 2-in-1 USB/SD card dongle. Lucky guys. More »


Lexar Has A Huge Oven For Cooking USB Drives

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3:30PM August 3, 2010 | Nick Broughall

Every consumer electronics company raves about their quality testing, but Lexar actually published a video showing how they do it. More »


Software

Send Photos From An Eye-Fi SD Card Directly To Your iPad With ShutterSnitch

9:20AM July 27, 2010 | Casey Chan

If you have an Eye-Fi SD Card and an iPad, you can ditch Apple’s iPad Camera Connection kit right now. Just use the app ShutterSnitch, which sends the photos on your Eye-Fi directly to your iPad (and iPhone). More »


SD Cards Get High-Performance Indicators

11:23PM June 23, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Shopping for SD cards has gotten a little bit easier, assuming you keep up-to-date on the latest SDXC/SDHC product iconography. Henceforth, products with bus-interface speeds up to 104MBps will carry a UHS-I symbol, while products that allow real-time video recording will have UHS Speed Class 1 symbols. Here’s how they look: More »