Ok, so we’ve gotten the eye-fi card.

Some comments on it:

• It doesn’t quite work as I expected. Sure enough, I get a low dB (wireless strength) signal anywhere in the house, but until the signal perks below 50 dB, the card can’t successfully upload. So far this has meant I need to carry the camera into the study into line-of-sight with the router. But, if interference is low, the kitchen works … sometimes.
• The automagic uploading is sweet. At first thought I was a bit bummed because if I bring the camera into the study, I may as well pop out the card, put it into the computer, and download pictures. But I forgot that the eye-fi card also uploads to PicasaWeb, saving me two steps.
• All the automatic stuff I want it to do would require me, I think, to change the privacy settings on the albums uploaded to PicasaWeb. I have the albums listed as “unlisted”, which means that I can link people to them directly, but you can’t go to my album link and actually see anything. I tried to install an RSS widget that would be on the right side of hrrf that you could monitor to see when new pictures/galleries were uploaded, but because the RSS doesn’t work unless the albums are public – no dice. I’m currently trying to figure out how to hack that.
• There isn’t a solution for my balls – specifically, unless I flip through each picture on the card and designate a picture as non-upload worthy, the pictures go up.

It was also a pain to configure. Windows Firewall and Eye-Fi did not get along, and Windows 7 really, really doesn’t want you to disable the firewall. I also had to do a firmware update for the camera before being able to use the card. Glee.

But, it’s working and semi-configured. I suppose if I were motivated enough, I could write my own wordpress plugin that would automatically post my unlisted albums. I’m not sure I’m there yet.