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iPod Camera Connector & Cameraphone Media Reader
iPod Camera Connector
This
simple little attachment connects your digicam to your color-screen
iPod using the USB cable that came with your camera. Hook it up
and your iPod offers to transfer the content of your camera to the
iPod, then asks if you'd like the camera erased. You should generally
choose this option, because if you donāt you'll just keep reimporting
the same photos over and over ÷ the Camera Connector is kind of
retarded about this.
Once
you have the photos in the iPod, you can view them but only at low
resolution. To view them on a TV display, you need to sync with
your computer so they can be processed through iTunes, then brought
back to the iPod in the proprietary multi-res format Apple devised.
This
device doesnāt work with USB flash drives or flash card adapters,
which was a big letdown for me. I have several cameras with different
card formats so I carry miniature adapters instead of a messy tangle
of cables to get the pics into my PowerBook. Still, for most people,
this is a swell little unit that adds another dimension to your
color iPod experience.
$29
from store.apple.com
Cameraphone
Media Reader
Now
hereās one of those products that should have come out a year ago.
The Memory Data Suite MA-800 is a flash card reader with special
software designed to make it easy to move media files to and from
your phone. What took you so long, guys?
Mobile
Action has been making mobile management software for most of the
world's mobile phones for years, so they know what they're doing.
The card reader is unremarkable except that it has support for 25
card formats. That sounds impressive, but there is some overlap
so the distinction is academic.
Hereās
the list:
Compact Flash Type I (CF) Compact Flash Type II MicroDrive
Magic Store SmartMedia ROM T-Flash MultiMedia Card (MMC)
MultiMedia Card 4.0 Reduced Size MMC (RS-MMC) Reduced Size MMC
4.0 Reduced Size MMC Mobile Secure Digital (SD) Secure Digital
Mini Memory Stick Memory Stick Pro Memory Stick Duo Memory
Stick Pro Duo Memory Stick ROM Memory Stick Magic Gate Memory
Stick Select Memory Stick Pro Ultra Type II Memory Stick Duo
Magic Gate Memory Stick Pro Magic Memory Stick Pro Duo Magic
Gate
All
righty then! If one of these formats doesn't work, you're still
living in the 20th century and desperately need a new phone, dude.
Check the website listed below for the latest supported phones.
If
you want to take total charge of your mediaphone's capabilities,
this product is what you need.
$32.95 from mobileaction.com
~David
MacNeill
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