[Ti] traveling overseas need tech advice

[Milton van der Veen]

I just came back from a trip to the Philippines and wanted to keep in 
touch with friends and family back home. My companions each had digital 
cameras. I was able to get an Internet Card which allowed for dial-up 
Internet at about $3 for 20 hrs. I had my PowerBook and each night I 
would use iPhoto to easily download from each of our cameras. Though we 
each had different cams, it required no setup -- all cams worked 
easily. Then I used a trial dot Mac account (good for 3 months) to 
upload the pix to a web album. There's an example at the link below:
          <http://homepage.mac.com/scaw/PhotoAlbum5.html>

At the end of the trip I compiled all the pix into folders in iPhoto 
and burned CDs for each of us so we all had more pix than we would ever 
want. It all worked very well and easily. One of my friends took the 
CDs to her local box store and now has a very full photo album.

If the link above has expired because the dot Mac account is gone, you 
can see the pix in my daily journal at the link below:
       <http://www.scaw.org/livereport/report009.html>

Just an example of what can be done "away from home" using iPhoto. By 
the way, I also tried the iBlog (free from dot Mac with a membership) 
setup but found it too cumbersome.

Milton

On Jun 14, 2004, at 5:54 AM, Kynan Shook wrote:

> I travelled around Europe (Netherlands, France, Spain) for about a 
> month a few years ago, mostly by bike.  My mom and sister each had 
> digital cameras, and I brought my iBook along to save the pictures to. 
>  It worked very well; we periodically burned CDs to back up the 
> photos.  Occasionally we'd have to fight over outlets as some hostels 
> had very limited (or poorly placed) electricity.  We didn't really get 
> online at all while there; but presumably one should be able to find a 
> wireless hotspot in many cities.
>
> T Molnar <tam at em.ca> writes:
>> My daughter plans on traveling for a year in these places (hostels for
>> accomodation).
>> 1. Film or digital camera use (they both have their advantages and
>> disadvantages)
>> Film - fast, less concern for storage, battery recharging etc..
>> Digital - instant feedback, can share directly with little cost
>> etc...but battery recharging, storage cards etc..