Eye-Fi Pro 4GB SDHC Wireless SD Memory Card Review Page 3
Configuring and Using Eye-Fi Pro 4GB
After your initial setup of the Eye-Fi Pro wireless card, you can plug the card back into your computer to further configure more advance settings of the card. Below is a screenshot of the homepage of the Eye-Fi Manager web-based software. From here you can view your last 5 uploaded photos, read Eye-Fi news, get help with certain aspects of the card and or your camera, and you can also rename your Eye-Fi Card which we renamed ours to "Tech Fragments". 
Let's take a closer look at all of the settings that can be configured on the Eye-Fi card. The first one, we have already seen and it deals with configuring the default wireless network and enabling Hotspots which we did in the initial setup. 
The Upload Settings are quite handy and also includes a new feature for the all new Eye-Fi Pro SDHC Wireless Card and that's the ability to selectively upload certain photos instead of all photos automatically. The "Selective Transfer" feature can be set to automatically, which means any and all photos taken are uploaded OR it can alternatively be set to "Upload Selected" which only uploads photos that you select for it to.
How do you select which ones you want to upload? By using your camera's "Protect" function. Simply, "Protect" each photo you want uploaded and the Eye-Fi Pro card does the rest. This is actually a VERY cool feature that I really enjoy and I know all of the previous generation Eye-Fi card users will love this as well. With my camera, the Protect button is within a thumbs reach making this especially handy. 
The last feature under the Upload Settings is the ability to Relay Upload photos. With relayed uploads, your camera and computer don't need to be on at the same time for your media to upload. If you computer is offline or the Eye-Fi Manager happens not to be running, your media will be sent over the WiFi network to the Eye-Fi servers. Then the next time your computer is online, the media will automatically be delivered to your photo location on your computer that you previously configured. Pretty slick feature and it's free - no subscription or service fee is required to utilize this.
Next, let's take a look at the "Photo Destinations" setting. From here, we can configure which folder on your computer photos are uploaded to. Furthermore, you can customize what the folder should look like. I have configured mine to include the Month, Day, and Year the photo was taken so that I can easily view all of my folders and know where my pictures are located. This makes for sorting photos much easier later on if I desire. 
You can also select which date you want the photos to utilize for the folder creation. You can choose to use the photo creation date (the date you took the photo) or the photo upload date (the date the photo was uploaded using Eye-Fi Manager).
The next feature on the settings page is the GeoTagging which we have already configured in the initial setup therefore we will not be covering it again, but it's here on the settings page if you ever need to change it.
The last configurable feature on the settings page is the Upload Notifications. With upload notifications, you can have the Eye-Fi Manager automatically notify you, or your friends when a photo is uploaded to say your Picasa Web Album on the Internet. There are there notification types to choose from; Email, SMS, and Twitter.
The email notification type will allow for you to enter one email address for notifications. The email will come from notes@eye.fi so you will need to make sure it doesn't go to your Spam box to see it. I wish that the Eye-Fi Manager would allow for multiple email addresses here. As you can see from the "Preferences" you have the ability to notify if an upload is successful or fails.
The SMS notification type allow for the same notification preferences but you will receive a text message on your phone instead. You simply select your carrier from the list and enter in your mobile phone number and you are ready to receive text alerts. We tested this with AT&T service and using the iPhone 3G without any issues at all.
Finally, we have Twitter. This can be a great way to notify a large group of people that you have new photos automatically uploaded to your photo sharing site. All you have to do is enter your Twitter login credentials for the service to work.
Now that we have gone through all of the configuration options for the Eye-Fi Manager, lets take a look at the last tab "My Eye-Fi Account". From here you can change your password, name, device management, or even delete your account so that you can give your Eye-Fi to a friend or family member and allowing them to register it. There is also a RSS Feeds option that will automatically show your latest photos to friends and families. 
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