WD My Passport Wireless

Just got a WD My Passport Wireless 1 TB drive for my upcoming Tassie trip. It is a battery powered hard disk with builtin WiFi and an SD card reader. When I fill up a sd card on my camera I can copy the photos to the hard disk for backup and then access them from my iOS and Android devices via the builtin wifi and the WD Apps. So once all the photos are on the disk I can copy just the images I want for my blog posts to the iPad (via wifi) to write the blog. When I get home the disk will connect to my iMac as an external USB 3 device making it pretty fast to copy the photos and movies onto the computer. 

The battery life is supposed to be 6 hours and it charges from a USB port, so I shouldn't have any problems powering it from the car on the trip. For those with kids it is also a media centre and can play back movies to several (5 I think, has builtin DLNA server) wifi connected devices. I got it for $246 from Hardly Normal and I think it is also available at Officeworks and JB HiFi for roughly the same price.  The details and specifications are here :- http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1330

I've had an initial play now with the drive and the iOS app and can see they have some idiosyncrasies. For instance I have copied photos and movies from both my camera sd card and my GoPro micro-sd card (in an adapter) and in theory they go into a DCIM directory similar to the file structure seen on the camera sd card but that directory doesn't show up in its iOS app file browser. You can see the photos and movies only from its own "Photos" and "Movies" browser but with no folder support you just see a long list of the appropriate files which won't be too useful with several thousand photos stored. I may have to go full nerd and turn on the ftp server function and use that to transfer files. Disconnecting and reconnecting to the drive solved the problem of not seeing the imported sd card directory. Looks like each sd card ends up with its own directory, so I can separate out the GoPro photos and movies from the ones taken using my Sony camera. The WD android app on my Nexus 7 also seems to work in a similar fashion and allows access to the saved files. 

In a pleasant surprise I took the above photo using my iPhone and then started editing this blog (using Blogger) on the iPhone, inserted the image and then saved as a draft. I then went to my iPad opened Blogger and the draft showed up there ready for editing, I initially thought the draft may have been stored locally on the iPhone but no it was stored on the Blogger server. :) :) :)

However, I tried editing using the Blogger app on the Nexus 7 and it also saw the draft but proceeded to crash and burn when I tried to edit and save this text. :( :( :(

Unfortunately, the blogger app also doesn't seem to recognize the emoji from the iOS keyboard, so I had to revert to good old ascii smilies and sad faces. :( :)