Eye-Fi does not officially support the use of their cards in SDHC->CompactFlash adapters, but I have not experienced any serious issues other than reduced range. One thing that can help is to remove the shielding from the adapter.
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The new page for Phojo 6.0 can be found here. Below is a list of all the new features since 5.0:
Eye-Fi Pro Support
• Built-in Eye-Fi Pro support adds WiFi transmission capabilities to almost any camera for only $149
• Pocket Phojo automatically creates the ad-hoc WiFi network, and allows receiving images from the camera via WiFi while simultaneously transmitting via email or FTP on the phone’s 3G connection
• Choose between transmitting all images or only those selected in-camera using the protect button
• Received images can be automatically renamed, have IPTC captions added, and be resized and recompressed before being transmitted
Idruna Remote Editing System 2.0 Support
• IRES allows an editor to see what her photographers are shooting in real time, from anywhere in the world
• IRES first transmits thumbnails to the editor, which takes very little bandwidth, and can be done in real time
• When the editor clicks on a thumbnail, a small preview is transmitted.
• Only the images the editor selects as the best are transmitted at full size
• Supports ratings stars, editing captions remotely from the browser, voice tags, and RAW files
• Team members can form groups to display all photos from an job in the same browser window
• Supports end to end high grade encryption
• Bandwidth optimization transmits images twice as fast as sending via FTP
• See http://idruna.com/remoteediting.html for full details
User Interface Improvements
• Shiny new user interface
• Improved Image Browser – now displays more thumbnails at once
• Clicking on an entry in the Transmission Queue now displays a thumbnail
• Added Delete option to profile selectors
• Changed Rename Prefix to Template, added ability to rename according to file date etc
• Raw images are now automatically rotated
New Camera Support
• Custom USB driver adds support for connecting to the Nikon D3 and D300, with the screen remaining on, something Nikon’s own software can’t do!
• D3/D300 owners can now select files to transmit in-camera using the protect button
• USB driver now supports having both slots filled at the same time
• Added FujuFilm S5 Pro USB Driver Support
• The built-in FTP server now supports the Canon WFT-E3
• WiFi is set back to using DHCP on exit
Military Features
• Added automatic VIRIN support when Military Captions enabled
• Added Encrypted Email Support (SMIME) for sending to DoD recipients
Transmission Improvements
• Send via Email now supports routing images through the IRES server. As well as being more than twice as fast, this also bypasses problems on phone networks that block SMTP
• Send via Email now supports BCC
• Pocket Phojo now supports up to 256bit AES Encryption
• Added Secure FTP (SFTP) Support, with password or certificate based authentication
• Added FTPS Support
• Added SCP Support
• Now warns when storage is low
• Auto-Retry failed transmissions
• New optimizations allow transmitting thousands of images without slowdowns or running out of memory
IRES has now been used at the World Economic Forum for the 3rd straight year, and again with great success. IRES gave Swiss Image a considerable advantage over the larger press agencies, even over the Agency That Shall Not be Named that used their own proprietary remote editing workflow.
You can read more at Swiss Image’s newly redesigned site
It seems like only 4 blog posts ago that I was wishing everyone Seasons Greetings. Ah, it was only 4 posts ago, something to add to my New Years Resolutions list. Despite the apparent lack of activity on the surface, things have been very busy here, with over 30 beta releases of Phojo/IRES released this year, including the addition of high grade encryption to meet the needs of our police and military customers, live video transmission support from DSLRs and camcorders, masses of new features in IRES, and the Wi-Pics Mobile software mentioned below. Even with the news media industry turmoil, the feedback from my trip to NYC earlier in the month was very positive, 2009 should be a very interesting year. Best wishes and all the best from everyone here at Idruna!
Idruna and United Imaging Solutions LLC have teamed up to produce the next generation Wi-Pics Mobile unit. The software is a special custom version of Pocket Phojo designed to meet the needs of event photographers, with built-in work flow actions to automatically download images from the camera as you shoot, and associate information from a barcode scanner or user edited fields into the exif headers or file names. The hardware is the Socket SoMo 650, with a custom bracket and USB host cable for convenient mounting to the camera. The solution will be available from UIS in January starting at $1299.
2008 Cox Mobile Technology Summit – September 4th, Atlanta, GA
Published August 24, 2008 Phojo News 5 CommentsVerizon has invited me to give a presentation titled “Real Time Photo and Video Transmission using DSLRs and Verizon Wireless Hand-held Devices” at the 2008 Cox Mobile Technology Summit, on September 4th, at Cox’s headquarters in Atlanta, GA. Please feel free to email me if you will be attending the conference or would like more information.
I`ll be showcasing IRES running on the OQO model 02 on Verizon’s booth (C2146) at NAB April 16th and 17th, if you`ll be attending be sure to stop by so you can see the latest updates in action!
Canon has published a great article highlighting how Andy Mettler of Swiss Image used the advanced wireless workflows of IRES and Canon’s 1D Mark III to great effect at the World Economic Forum:
http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/technical/tethering_lan_2.do#container
Was it just the sleep deprivation, or did 2007 go by faster than 2006? 
It’s been a frustrating year for new Windows Mobile hardware. The HTC Advantage looked so good on paper, then let us down with broken USB host support. The Cowon Q5W took forever to launch, and then they left out HSDPA and all the Bluetooth profiles except headphones, so you can only connect via WiFi. This leaves the Toshiba G900 as my new top recommendation. It has almost every single feature you could ask for in a phone, an 800×480 VGA screen, HSDPA for the fastest transmission speed available, WiFi, Bluetooth, and of most interest, one of the best USB Host support implementations I’ve seen. Not only is the Mini B->A adapter included in the box, unlike the Loox T830, you don’t need to change any software settings before plugging in the camera, it just works.
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