Eye-Fi Share 2 GB Wi-Fi SD Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-2GB (OLD VERSION)
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: Eye-FiPlatform: Mac OS X
Model: EYE-FI-2GB
Color: Orange
Product features:
- Uploads photos automatically from Eye-Fi Card inside your camera. Built-in Wi-Fi connects to your home network
- Provides free and unlimited photo uploads to your computer and your favorite photo or social networking website.
- Supports sharing and printing websites: Fotki, Shutterfly, dotPhoto, smugmug, facebook, photobucket, Kodak Gallery, Sharpcast and more
- Handles full-resolution jpeg images and intelligently re-sizes photos if limited by your chosen photo or social networking website
- Fits digital cameras that use SD memory cards and offers 2 GB of memory to store photos on the card
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Eye-Fi Share 2 GB Wi-Fi SD Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-2GB (OLD VERSION)
Customer Review: Didn't work at first, but excellent customer service saved the day!
Summary: 5 Stars
This card is supposed to work "out of the box" but ours didn't. When you plug the USB adapter (with the card in it) we got recognition of a generic removable hard drive, but neither the instant set up wizard nor even the "Eye-Fi" icon/label of the drive.
I downloaded the Eye-Fi manager separately from their own website successfully and manually installed the manager. But, when I tried to run it, I was given the "insert a recognized card" message when the card was inserted.
I figured I had a dud and was about to return it, but I decided to contact Eye-Fi support first, on the off chance they had any suggestions. I got FANTASTIC (and almost immediate) email support with detailed instructions to reformat the card. (I would have thought that this would have ruined my chances entirely, but in fact it worked). I'll copy the instructions I was given below in case anyone else has the same problem as this is not on their FAQ or troubleshooting page.
Since then it has worked exactly as advertised. Sitting in the living room on our laptops snapping pictures, and then seeing them show up not two minutes later on Picasa was really cool, I have to say. Later, my mom took the camera to my niece's Christmas concert and as soon as she got home (and turned on the camera -- very important) the pictures uploaded to both the computer and Picasa without incident.
The only confusing part of the process was in the set up of a Picasa account, actually, and that's not the fault of the card at all. It's handy to know that you don't even need to set up the web album before configuring your card. When you are in the Eye-Fi manager and choose your online photo system (at least for Picasa), you'll be given an option at that time to create a new web album account.
I'm very pleased with this purchase, with the delivery from Amazon, and most of all with the customer service from Eye-Fi.
Here are the steps I was given for a "non responsive" card, though you may wish to verify with them before going through the process yourself. I know I felt more comfortable having an email from them that gave me permission to reformat! :)
Discussion Thread
Response (Wanda) - 12/18/2007 08:03 AM
Good Morning, Sarah,
Would you please be so kind as to try one more thing for me ;) Please format your Eye-Fi Card in your Mac by following these procedures:
1) Shut down the Eye-Fi Manager agent running in the upper right-hand corner of your computer by clicking on it and selecting "Quit"
2) Insert the Eye-Fi Card into the USB card reader and into a USB port on your MAC
3) Make sure that all of the pictures that you have on the Eye-Fi Card in the DCIM folder, and want to keep, have been transferred off of the card
4) Click on Go at the top of your Mac Finder window
5) Click on Applications
6) Double-click on the Utilities folder
7) Double-click on the Disk Utility icon
8) In the left side of the Disk Utility panel you should see "1.9 GB SD/MMC Card Reader"
9) Click on "No Name" underneath "1.9 GB SD/MMC Card Reader" to select it
10) Click on the "Erase" button in the middle near the top of the Disk Utility window
11) Choose "MS-DOS File System (FAT16)" from the "Volume Format" pull down menu
12) Enter "Eye-Fi" in the Name Field underneath the Volume Format field
13) Press the "Erase" Button in the bottom right-hand corner of the Disk Utility window and wait ... this may take several minutes.
14) Remove the Eye-Fi Card and USB card reader from the computer.
15) Double-click on the Eye-Fi Manager icon in your Dashboard and start the agent running again in the upper right-hand corner of your computer
16) Insert your card back into the USB card reader and into your computer
17) The Eye-Fi Manager should now launch
Please reply to me whether this procedure fixes your issue or not?
Have a wonderful day,
Wanda
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Description of Eye-Fi Share 2 GB Wi-Fi SD Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-2GB (OLD VERSION)
The Eye-Fi Card is a wireless memory card for your digital camera that uses your home Wi-Fi network to effortlessly upload pictures from your camera to a PC or Mac and to your favorite photo or social networking website. And, it fits and stores photos just like a standard SD card. Features: 1. Uploads photos automatically from Eye-Fi Card inside your camera. Built-in Wi-Fi connects to your home network. 2. Provides free and unlimited photo uploads to your computer and your favorite photo or social networking website. Photo transmission is secure and private. 3. Supports sharing and printing websites, including Fotki, Shutterfly, dotPhoto, webshots, phanfare, Picasa Web albums, flickr, TypePad, Wal-Mart, snapfish, VOX, smugmug, facebook, photobucket, Kodak Gallery, and Sharpcast. 4. Handles full-resolution jpeg images and intelligently re-sizes photos if limited by your chosen photo or social networking website. 5. Features Eye-Fi Manager for easy set-up of wireless network and photo upload preferences. 6. Fits digital cameras that use SD memory cards. 7. Offers 2 GB of memory to store photos on the card. 8. Includes USB memory card reader to make set-up easy. Requirements & compatibility: 1. Eye-Fi Card requires Internet connection to set-up and Wi-Fi network for wireless uploads 2. Eye-Fi Card works with virtually all digital cameras accepting SD memory cards 3. Eye-Fi Card works with 802.11g, 802.11b and backwards-compatible 802.11n wireless networks 4. Eye-Fi software works with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X (10.3 and 10.4) 5. Eye-Fi software works with Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (Windows only), Firefox 2.0 (Windows and Macintosh)Manufacturer Product Description A Wireless Memory Card? Yes, there really is Wi-Fi inside that tiny little card. It's going to change the way you take, save and share photos.
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It makes your camera a Wi-Fi camera. Upload and share your photos automatically.
Photos shouldn't be trapped in your camera. Set them free effortlessly and wirelessly. The Eye-Fi Card is a wireless SD memory card for your digital camera. It stores pictures like a standard SD memory card, but also uses your home Wi-Fi network to automatically upload images from inside your camera to your PC or Mac and to your favorite photo or social networking website for sharing or printing. No cables, no cradles, no fuss.
Key Features
- Unlimited WebShare ervice
- Wireless Uploads to Computer
- 2 GB of storage
How it works
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WebShare
 | With WebShare, your photos can be automatically uploaded to your favorite photo sharing, printing, blogging or social networking website. No wasted time sitting in front of your computer. No fussing with upload software. No delay in sharing your new memories with friends and family. |
| control if and when they are viewable by others. Many sites even let you edit your photo albums online. And, you can change your preferred upload site at any time. You can even upload to the Web when your computer is turned off. The Eye-Fi Share and The Eye-Fi Explore will upload your photos directly to the Eye-Fi Service through your home Wi-Fi network. We'll deliver them to your photo site and then deliver them to your computer the next time you turn it on. The Eye-Fi Service is secure and encrypted, so your data and photos are safe and private. Eye-Fi Share and Eye-Fi Explore include unlimited WebShare service. Upload and share all you want. |
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