Sync your iPhone Camera Roll without USB Connection with WiFiPhoto
The photos taken on the iPhone are stored on the Camera Roll, user can sync with the PC or Mac upon connecting the iPhone via USB. Granted there are so many ways to sync your photos with online services, it would be nice to be able to download to your desktop/laptop quicky.
Sync’ing the camera roll with a Windows PC is not very straight forward in my opinion. Expensive third party apps are required on the desktop side. Fortunately, I found WiFiPhoto, a small iPhone iPod Touch app that can transfer photos over your WiFi network.
WiFiPhoto lets you pick multiple photos from the Camera Roll or from the Photo Library and lets you download them to any computer over a local network one at a time or altogether compressed in a zipped file. It’s as easy as opening on your favorite browser the web address displayed by WiFiPhoto (e.g. http://192.188.1.112:8080) and you will be presented option to download the zip file.
In my quick testing, I found shows some limitations of the app: the photo selection is done one by one with few seconds between, this make the selection of multiple photos in 1 batch very cumbersome but it is ok if you have less than 5 photos each time . The problem is that developers cannot access directly stored pictures. They are read from the storage memory (8, 16, 32 Gb) and converted and they can take up to 12 Mb in volatile memory ! Since each application has a free available memory less than 35 MB (but often it reduces down to 22Mb) there’s no way to store more than one photo at a time. You can vary the Image quality with a slider to change the compression ratio in JPEG pictures.
The app only cost1 $.99 and it provides what I need. Highly recommended!
I’ve always wondered why this app and apps like it only allow the user to select one photo at a time. Thanks for the clarification!