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Digital Cameras have revolutionised the way that we take, print and publish our photographs.
Previously each film could only take a fixed number of pictures which then had to be developed by a professional developer and then kept in a physical album. This flexibility has introduced a number of additional problems.
How often have you missed place your card reader or USB cable to connect your camera to your netbook, resulting in a frustrating search before you can view your photos. Or how often have you put off transferring pictures to your computer resulting in a delay in sharing your pictures or filling up or the memory card on the camera.
From my own experience there have been times in the past where I have forgotten my card reader and I’ve had to use my SonyPSP and a USB cable to act as a complicated card reader.
Well now there is a neat solution which makes the job easier Eye-Fi. Eye-fi looks and acts like a standard SD memory card but adds WiFi connectivity to your camera. Just by turning your camera on you can effortlessly transfer photos and videos from your camera to your computer and favorite web sharing site.
In addition the provided software automatically backs up and organizes your photos and videos on your Windows Netbook in date-based folders, and incredibly you can also share your photos and videos on your social networking site without even having your computer on. All you need is a SDHC capable camera and a wireless router. This could revolutionise the way you manage your photo’s.
Mobile Broadband has had massive impact on Laptops and Netbooks of all types, no longer are their users limited to being able to access the Internet through Wifi access points in cafe’s and meeting area’s (often at high cost) but now access is possible from anywhere there is a mobile Phone network. In addition as the Data Speeds of networks have improved, it has been possible to do more and more bandwidth intensive functions on our trusty Netbooks, even watch Iplayer whilst out of the move.
In this article I described how to configure the Linux version of the Acer Aspire One to work with the 3 Broad Band Dongle.
So what next for Mobile Broadband, at the moment each user needs a USB Dongle to connect to the Mobile Broadband Network which can be quite limiting, However 3 have recently launched a new device called the MiFi, ( a rebadged version of the Huawei E5830) which takes a Mobile Data Network and turns it into a Wifi signal. This means that a number of your WIFI Enable devices can share the Mobile Data Network with out being physically linked to a cable.For Example whilst you are blogging on your Netbook, a friend could be surfing the Internet on their Laptop and you could also be downloading an album on your Ipod Touch all at the same time sharing the same mobile broadband connection.
The MiFi has a battery installed which means that it’s completely portable, this means that you could install it into a car and turn your car into a secure WIFI Hotspot, or store it in your rucksack to always have the Internet handy. This sounds like a great leap forward.
I’ll be experimenting with the MiFi in the near future to see how well it works it practice.
I’ve discovered that you can map a drive to any shared network drive on your Network.
This is useful as it allows me to access videos and music on the storage device on my main computer.
I found the method by mixing together a number of solutions I found on the net but here’s the method I followed.
Create a directory in /home/user called network
Open a Terminal Window
type the following: sudo mount -t cifs -o username=*AAAA,password=*PPPP //*IP/*share /home/user/network
But replace:
*AAAA with your username for the network share on the other device.
*PPPP with the password of the above username.
*IP with the IP address of your PC
*share with the name of the network share – on my PC this is the drive letter e
eg sudo mount -t cifs -o username=admin,password=password //10.1.0.1/e /home/user/network
Now when you browse your home/user/network directory of your Acer Aspire One you will see the contents of your shared drive.
You will need to do this process each time you re-start your computer.
I’ve added a menu entry to make this process easier.
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