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Many (I do mean many) years ago, I worked for Fotomat. For those of you who don't have any idea who they were, they were booths in shopping centers. We took in your camera film, created printed photos on photo paper and returned them to you a few days later. We wore dorky blue and yellow outfits with little caps. Fotomat actually had early video rental capability back in the day of betamax.

I've digressed for a purpose. When I worked there, I purchased a heavy weight professional camera and took lots of photos of my sons, landscapes, still shots, you name it. I loved it, but I let photography drift away as the years went by. I've let my iPhone take the place of a camera.

But not anymore. I just purchased a small 12 megapixel camera. It has a few nifty features like panorama shots, eye blink protection, face detection, and so on. But something nifty was waiting in the wings for me. I spotted Eye-Fi. Eye-fi is a standard 2Gig SD memory card with a twist. It has built in Wi-fi. And the one I've linked to on Amazon gives me the ability to upload from their own wi-fi spots that are all over the country. A nominal fee of $20 bucks a year or so gives me access to these hot-spots.

So picture this. You're at the airport with a full memory card and on your way to your next destination. Pop into one of their hotspots and upload your photos while you pick up a cup of coffee. Delete the pictures from your card and off you go, clean card in the camera, all your photos safe and sound on Flickr, or Photobucket or whatever upload service you prefer to use. Now you arrive safe and sound back home with a full memory card. Upload them all from your camera, not your computer, with your pre-defined settings. Oh, and it still functions just like a standard memory card.

Can't beat it for under a hundred bucks.