Transcend Wi-Fi SD Card Review - Wirelessly Connecting a Camera to Your iPad/iPhone

Sometimes a wireless connection from a powerful camera to an iPad/iPhone offers the best of both worlds. See this article on geotagging your photos with an iPhone. Technology progresses and it's no surprise new products offer more for less. Case in point, Transcend's Wi-Fi SD Cards. Compared to similar cards from Eye-Fi you can either get double the capability (32GB verses 16GB) for a bit more than half the price ($70/$100), or the exact same 16GB for half ($50/$100). Let's see how they compare.

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Order Photo Prints for Pickup or Mail Delivery from the iPad

Updated on Sunday, November 25, 2012 at 9:20PM by James Chi

This site has a fair amount of information on printing photos from your iPad, but the most cost effective way is still sending them out to a photo lad. At less than 10 cents a print it can be an eighth the cost of printing them yourself. The only tricky part is sending the photos and actually putting in the order. You can save the most money by having the prints mailed to you, but if time is an issue you can pick them up at a local retailer (Walgreens, Walmart, etc). As always the article gives you various options and instructions...

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Create and Order a Photo Book/Magazine from the iPad

Photo books are a great way to enjoy your images. Relive special moments in your life, track your progress as a photographer, or simply enjoy your everyday photos. Since your iPad may already contain your photos and the iPad has many tools to manage and modify the images, the iPad is a natural platform to create a photo book... or should be. It is early still, but here is how you do it.

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Create a Movie Using Photos as Video Frames on the iPad

For video production on any platform, the most basic task is to transform a series of images into a video. That's what is happening with a hand drawn, flip book, and the latest digital video. By modifying the individual images of a video you can achieve very interesting effects. Think Ray Harryhausen, Wallace & Gromit, or a time lapse movie. On iOS there are quite a few apps that offer specialized tools to create stop motion and time lapse movies, but until recently there hasn't been a good way to convert images from your camera roll into a movie. Why would you want to? Well many photography apps may not support video output. Also images from an external, high quality camera can be imported into the iPad. Finally there are a wide array of image editing apps in iOS, making adding special effects, frame-by-frame (rotoscoping) more than possible. Let's try a little project...

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Backup Your iPhone/iPad Photo Library to the Cloud

Some of the most irreplaceable information on your iPhone/iPad are your photographs. The device itself can be easily (if not without cost) replaced. Lose your data and it may be gone forever. Having a good systematic backup scheme is important, easy, and pretty cheap.

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Read and Write to a SD Card from an iPad—SD Card Readers Review

Music players, audio recorders, GPS units, scanners, ebook readers, cameras of all sorts, even robots... gadgets of all sorts use SD cards to store data. A working SD Card reader for iOS brings the power of these great gadget to the iPad and iPhone. The following devices allow you to read and write to SD cards without jail-breaking your iPad.

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Scan Documents and Photos onto the iPad Using a Low Cost Wi-Fi Scanner/Printer

Epson WorkForce 600 All-in-One Printer

If you are looking for a cheap solution for scanning photos and documents into your iPad. Here is a solution which will cost you from free to $50 for a nice home network setup. Most multifunction printer manufactures have apps in the App Store to support the iPhone and iPad with their latest models, but many of their older models will also work. We'll use this fact to get a cheap scanner on the iPad.

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