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Ok, so I have a trial N900 from WOMWorld, and I've been trying to hack it to do cool things. So far I've done this:

http://doitdifferent.wordpress.com/2...-be-like-this/

And written up a how-to here:
http://doitdifferent.wordpress.com/2...0-with-iphoto/

As I say in the article:

"I’ve only got this N900 as a trial for a month. I’ve no incentive to develop this further as I’ll have it give the device back :-( . It’s a proof of concept. I’ll hand this over to the Maemo community to develop further. I’d like to see this as an app that can be installed from the repository, with a nice GUI to configure the various options. Other features that would be good to add would be:

• Choose what networks to sync on, or what type of network.
• Maybe sync over 3G only if there aren’t many new pics since last sync etc. Limit data.
• Option to sync when the camera shutter is closed.
• Software to configure the OSX side.
• More testing! What happens on failed syncs etc.
• GUI

If anyone does take this on and extend the idea, please credit my blog, or me by name – Iain Wallace."

So, if this is of interest to anyone, try it out. Let me know if you spot any mistakes in the post or it needs more info. And if anyone's interested in developing this idea further, well, feel free! Though I'd appreciate being kept up to date.

This looks interesting!

Will it be possible to sync with a web server? I have a website hosted a 1and1.co.uk, and if it was possible to automatically upload to a directory on there, that would be of useful for me. Then the mac could pull the photo's from there.

This could be a different thing to what you have done altogether, I'm not too sure, as I'm new to the N900, and not familiar scripts or anything yet.

Wow, very cool idea! And you're absolutely right -- all cameras should work this way (and whoever said this is just EyeFi on your blog really is missing the point).

I'd very much like to see support for Aperture in there if you or anyone else manages to keep this project going.

m165 - Sync with a webserver would be easy enough. That's basically how it works. Read the the how-to post, I sync via a linux server that's on the web, then the mac syncs with that. I do it over SSH so I can get two way sync. If you don't have SSH access it should still be possible, but you might need to use ftp or similar and it'd not be as good a sync (limited to pushing one way).

Bingley Joe - aperture sync should be easy enough, it could probably work the same way. I don't have aperture to try it out though. If i kept developing then I could get it working using the A3 trial though.

I might continue with developing it, but depends if I end up getting my own n900 or not.

Just remembered that my hosting isn't actually with 1and1, just my domain name! I've contacted where it is hosted to see if I have SSH enabled.

If not, how hard would it be too make it do it via FTP? I don't mind the one way sync, as i never use iPhoto, and downloading from my server is simple enough.

Look at the how-to, basically instead of a cron job to run unison on the N900, your cron job would run a script that calls FTP to upload the pics. Rsync would be better in this case, as it won't transfer pics already uploaded.

Thanks, I'll try having a look, I'm new to all this scripting stuff so I'm not sure how it'll go! :P

If you can make it work with either PC, Mac, or Linux then it would be great.

This would also be handy if someone stole your N900 and start taking pictures. It will just sync automatically to the computer and we can report to police and providing evidence.

I know that this is different thing but if someone is using picasa and doesn't know this trick:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/send-yo...with-an-email/
And as you know picasa can also sync with picasaweb so (pc<->picasaweb<-n900.

Only thing is to do automatic send by email after picture taken.

Excellent work and a great idea

Keep up the good work!