Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

All I want for Christmas

who cares about world class municipalities, when the Eye-Fi wireless/photo storage card has been released? See "eye-fi makes pretty ideas come true," from the Seattle Times. It's not perfect, yet, but it's a start. I have thousands and thousands of photos I haven't uploaded to Flickr. I load only 6 photos at a time, so that the largest size is retained. Even doing this with multiple windows, it takes forever.

Sure you will have to go back in and name and keyword the photos but...

From the article:

On the Eye-Fi site, you enter network information, providing details about the Wi-Fi networks you want to attach to. You can't add networks on the fly and Eye-Fi doesn't yet work with hot-spot networks that require you to pay a fee or agree to terms via a Web page.

But you can add any home or work network that uses standard Wi-Fi protection via WEP, WPA Personal, or WPA2 Personal passwords. Or any network that has no password to join.

If you use a hot spot that's free and has no login or terms of service page to click through, you just need to make a note of its network name as it appears in the Available Wireless Networks list in Windows or the AirPort menu in Mac OS X. You add that name before you visit the location.

You also use the site to connect your account at Eye-Fi with any or all of 17 launch partners, including popular photo sites like Kodak Gallery, Flickr, and SmugMug; blogging services TypePad and Vox; and the social-networking site Facebook.

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