i wasn’t sure if it would work, but it seemed like it should in theory.

eye-fi’s latest card, the eye-fi pro lets you connect to ad hoc networks so that you can upload photos from your camera to the computer connected to the ad-hoc network. that’s great if you have a laptop with your camera all the time. you can have the camera upload to your laptop wirelessly. i know a lot of people were asking for this feature, but, honestly, if you have a laptop handy, how hard is it to just take your SD out and dump the files?

what was intriguing for me is that i recently became aware of a jailbroken app called MyWi. this app will create an ad hoc network that you can join and let you use your iphone as a wireless access point. this, coupled with the eye-fi pro means that you can now take high resolution photos from any SD-accepting camera and have it automatically upload and publish anywhere you’d like.

the iphone already lets me do that, but the optics on the camera aren’t stellar and doesn’t have a flash. i just spent some time trying to figure out how to get this all to work and it does work.

Cost of entry is high, though, for this convenience. For me:
$119.99 Eye-Fi Pro — SD card
$9.99 MyWi — jailbroken app
$25 – CF to SD converter (if i want to use in my dSLR)
iphone
dSLR camera

still, the fact that i CAN do it is cool.

i’m hosting a total of 5 blogs now, so every time wordpress releases a security release, it is 5 upgrades for me. i need to figure out how to automate this stuff so that it is easier for me. maybe i should try something radical like having only one wordpress install, but have multiple vhosts use the same set of files. hmm, that might work.

the plugins are a pain because they get upgraded all the time, it seems. still, i’m all upgraded to 2.9 now and i don’t notice a difference. =P