One interesting extra feature of the D60 has now been announced - it is compatible with the Eye-Fi SD card, and adjusts it’s power settings when the SD card is inserted (to allow extra time for those large files to be copied over the Wi-Fi link). The Eye-Fi SD card is a 2Gb memory card that also has Wi-Fi, and, once setup, will copy each image either to your PC running their dedicated software, or to one of various online sites (such as Flickr, Picasa Web, Faceboook). As part of this announcement, Eye-Fi will also expand their support to cover Nikon’s “myPicturetown”.

Picture courtesy of Engadget.

When Nokia announced the Share Online! v3 beta, we contacted Nokia and discussed with them the lack of geotagging of photos - ie the embedding of the location where the photo was taken (other products such as ShoZu are used in preference to Share Online due to this missing feature). Nokia told us they would be adding this feature in due course, and yesterday they released an application which is a step towards this.

The Nokia Location Tagger will add GPS information (via the EXIF image header information) to a photograph. Although a standalone application per se, it requires Share Online! v3 to be installed right now for uploading photos (in time Nokia plan to integrate the facilities of Location Tagger directly into the Camera and Gallery applications).

Sites such as Flickr, Panoramio, and Picasa Web support displaying geotagged pictures on a map, so we expect utilities such as this to make geotagging even more prevalent in 2008.

On related Nokia geotagging points, two interesting snippets of information have come out as a result of this release:

1. Currently Nokia Sports Tracker relies upon the website linking the time a photo is taken with the GPS log to determine the position of the picture - Nokia intend to change Sports Tracker to directly embed the location information into the EXIF data on the device itself.

2. Nokia plan to integrate the Gallery with Nokia Maps, so you will be able to see where pictures were taken directly on the device.

As a bit of light hearted relief for a Friday afternoon, we’re going to try a special article each week on a Friday, and highlight some gadget not available in the UK which we think should be!

This week, the Chumby…

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Nokia Beta Labs have released a beta of the new version of Share Online 3.0

This adds some nice functionality from Nokia, and looks a good way to go in terms of uploading content to various websites.

Although not mentioned on the website, Nokia have confirmed to me that they plan for the final released version to support geotagging the pictures (for phones like the N95) so that once uploaded to places like Flickr they will be able to appear on the photo map. This can be done today via ShoZu, but that app isn’t particularly N95-friendly. However, it’s nice to see Nokia responded with their own apps to achieve this integration.