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Eye-Fi Explore SD Card

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This 2 GB wireless SD card uploads photos automatically from your camera to whatever online photo service you like, whether that's Snapfish, Picasa, Flickr or anything else. The card can also beam pictures to your home computer's hard drive, which means you won't have to connect your camera physically to a computer to transfer images. Eye-Fi can even upload your images from hotspots while you're traveling, so you don't have to wait to get back home to save and back-up your pictures. The photos you upload can also be geotagged — automatically marked with longitude and latitude data — so, later on, you can retrace your snap-happy steps, if you forgot to input location info in your digital files. On some photo services, you'll be able to see your photos on a map according to their geotags. Millions of digital pictures are taken every day and 80% are never shared, but with Eye-Fi, you'll have no excuse not to send photos home to Mom.
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