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Easily access photos from iOS devices in Finder
Authored by: greyjay on Apr 09, '12 10:08:39AM

Or forget about half-assed 3rd-party WiFi-transfer apps and / or tethering:

Try Cloud Photos — a new app that (finally) leverages DropBox, from the front end, for syncing and — more importantly — organizing photos in folders, from within the app. More than that — it conserves storage space on the device by uploading native files to the DropBox servers, and retaining a thumbnail version of each photo on the device for local viewing. If you want to edit a photo on the phone, download a higher-res version (from within the app) of the photo from DropBox servers. DropBox in iOS allows one to limit the local storage capacity with an in-app preference setting.

Use the in-app camera (and specify a target folder before taking the photo), or move / copy any or all of your camera roll into custom DropBox directories. In my case, I had over 2GB of photos in the cameral roll on a 16GB iPhone4S, and worrying about depleting precious storage capacity with 8MP photos. Now my photo library sits in DropBox, accessible from the phone and all other linked-devices. I set a 500MB local storage limit for DropBox, and the low-res (local) images occupy only a few hundred kilobytes of storage. And it syncs over 3G, if desired — and if you have the data allowance to accommodate it.

Of note: DropBox just upped their referral incentive to 500MB per referral, max 16GB. They also currently offer a 3GB incentive for testing the "Camera Upload" beta release.



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