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Saturday, Jan. 25, 2003 - 9:01 a.m.

(This should have been posted at 9 am, but D-land was down......)This information might come in handy for you someday�.

The following was in this week�s edition of the free computer newsletter The Langalist (click here, if you would like to receive this free newsletter in your email). I have picked up several computer tips from this man�s writings in the past, and read his advice every week. The use of a digital camera as a non-photo file transfer unit would never have crossed my mind. I thought maybe somebody out there could benefit from this information:

Digital Cameras Can Transfer *Any* File

Get a digital camera for the holidays? Check this out:

Hi Fred: Maybe I am the last person in the world to stumble on

the fact that digital cameras can be used to transfer files

from one computer to another....

Many of us don't have any removable storage medium other than

a floppy, so for files greater than 1.44Mb we either have to

burn the file onto a CD to transfer it or send it as an e-mail

attachment, which can be time consuming without broadband.

My camera shows up via the USB port as a removable drive. For

a long time I just used this to copy images from camera to

hard drive, but recently I clicked on save after working on an

image in Photoshop. Perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised to

find it was saved to the camera, but I was.

So I tried a non-image file, and of course that got saved to

the camera too. I suppose it is obvious really, but it just

hadn't occurred to me that to the computer the camera was just

another drive.

Obviously the maximum file size is limited by the camera's

storage, but apart from the simplest cameras this is likely to

be much more than a floppy.

There could be many other camera owners who may not realise

they have a removable drive that can store files and be taken

anywhere to upload them to another computer's hard drive. ---

Peter Brown

Thanks, Peter. In fact, most memory-stick-based digital cameras function

internally a form of "RAM disk;" a solid-state version of an ordinary

small hard drive. As such, the memory stick doesn't care what kind of

data it holds--- it's all just ones and zeros anyway.

What's more, some normal hard drive maintenance tools can also work on

memory stick- based RAM disks, so you can even use things like

"undelete" functions to recover digital photos you may have accidentally

erased. See, for example,

http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2002/2002-07-29.htm#2 and

http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2002/2002-07-22.htm#8 .


This is the first Saturday that both Lease and I have had off for about 5 weeks.

Since there is a slight chance of snow, we are heading our early this morning to try to get a few errands completed.

Hope y�all have a great weekend��..

Antique - Futuristic


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