You know what would be really cool?  …if someone creates a device that would fit in an Secure Digital slot of a camera (in lieu of a memory card) and that device would transmit the images to a specified computer wirelessly!  It would be transparent to the camera itself–i.e., the camera still thinks that it’s writing to a memory card but the real magic happens in the device itself.  Sure, you’ll probably need a computer to configure the card, which is fine. 

Funny, just today in Engadget, I just read about such a device!  It’s called Eye-Fi.  They should be starting beta testing this month.  I’m not sure about how the device will be configured, or even how it would draw power from the camera.  Eye-Fi even said that they would have a CompactFlash adapter as well.  Wow.   I hope this thing actually exists.

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I just installed Windows Vista RC1 on my brand-new work laptop, and so far I find it…OK. Here are some of my observations about it:

• It’s kind of strange that the installer does not offer an option to format the drive. The upside though is that you don’t have to format the drive in order to install Vista (which is not the case for Beta 2, according to a co-worker.
• Hamachi does not work out of the box. You need to “run it as administrator” explicitly…even if the login name you use is already part of the admin group.  WTF?
• Network becomes unresponsive after a sleep (although this may be attributed to the wireless card)
• The Aero interface is cool at first, but the eye candy wears of after a couple of hours. It “disables” when you play something in VLC video player. I read somewhere that this is the case for most (if not all) Java-based apps. Good news is that it doesn’t slow the whole GUI down.
• It hasn’t crashed or showed the BSOD within the two days I’ve been using it.
• I think the new file explorer is convoluted. Microsoft copied OS X on pretty much everything…why not copy the simplicity of the Finder as well?
• I turned off the Sidebar after the first hour. It’s annoying.

Update: I uninstalled Vista and reinstalled XP SP2.  VMWare is too flaky on Vista RC1 so I was forced to switch back to XP.

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