Uploading photos from European Internet Cafes?

The last time I went to Europe the internet cafe pcs were locked down
with no way to copy photos from a camera or media card.
Nowadays, do many internet cafes in Europe have media card readers
connected to the PCs so you can e-mail, FTP, or otherwise upload your
photos, movie clips etc.?
What about USB access to the internet cafe PCs?

On 27 Jan 2005 21:37:05 -0800, "EuroTravel"
wrote:

The last time I went to Europe the internet cafe pcs were locked down
with no way to copy photos from a camera or media card.
Nowadays, do many internet cafes in Europe have media card readers
connected to the PCs so you can e-mail, FTP, or otherwise upload your
photos, movie clips etc.?
What about USB access to the internet cafe PCs?

Forget USB access, as the chances are you would need to install
drivers to get it to work.

There seem to be more and more machines coming out with multicard
readers, which are just wonderful in my opinion. Take your memory card
out, insert it into the computer, and upload. Piece of cake! I have
found most net cafes have one of those available, but it might be on
the administrators machine of course.

I believe SD and Compact flash are the most common. Personally, I use
SD.
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"Deep Foiled Malls" wrote
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Forget USB access, as the chances are you would need
to install drivers to get it to work.

Not if they run e.g. Windows XP. External drives via USB are hot
swappable (no admin.rights required), so you only need to have a
decent card reader (just in case) and a USB cable that fits the card
reader.

http://www.cybercafe.com/continent.asp?continent=Europe
will give a list of locations (don't know how up-to-date it is), and
allows to check the setup before you travel.

Bart

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:24:48 +0100, "Bart van der Wolf"
wrote:


"Deep Foiled Malls" wrote
in message ...
SNIP
Forget USB access, as the chances are you would need
to install drivers to get it to work.

Not if they run e.g. Windows XP. External drives via USB are hot
swappable (no admin.rights required), so you only need to have a
decent card reader (just in case) and a USB cable that fits the card
reader.

If you are lucky. It depends largely on the device you have.


http://www.cybercafe.com/continent.asp?continent=Europe
will give a list of locations (don't know how up-to-date it is), and
allows to check the setup before you travel.

That site's crap though. Half the links don't work, and those that do
are probably out of date. Trust me, don't rely on being able to plug a
USB cord in anywhere.
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I'm not taking a laptop, but I plan to take a WIFI capable PDA.
Is it possible to put the SD card with the camera files into the PDA
and then upload the data to a web or ftp server?
I've never seen a FTP client for pocketpcs or a web site editable via a
pocketpc either and WIFI access is probably much more difficult to find
than internet cafes.

On 1/27/05 11:37 PM, in article
, "EuroTravel"
wrote:

The last time I went to Europe the internet cafe pcs were locked down
with no way to copy photos from a camera or media card.
Nowadays, do many internet cafes in Europe have media card readers
connected to the PCs so you can e-mail, FTP, or otherwise upload your
photos, movie clips etc.?
What about USB access to the internet cafe PCs?

I was just in England last summer and EVERY hotel I was in had WIFI access
plus lots of cafes were around with WIFI so you should be ok.
I also took along a wallet reader. If you are taking your laptop, I don¹t
see why you are concerned with uploading to the net? Why not just store
them on the harddrive until you get home.
I do get about wanting to email pix home, though. I did a little of that
while I was there...sort of "hey, look where we are today!" I can see that
you might need that if visuals were important to business you might have.

On 1/28/05 12:05 PM, in article
, "EuroTravel"
wrote:

I'm not taking a laptop, but I plan to take a WIFI capable PDA.
Is it possible to put the SD card with the camera files into the PDA
and then upload the data to a web or ftp server?
I've never seen a FTP client for pocketpcs or a web site editable via a
pocketpc either and WIFI access is probably much more difficult to find
than internet cafes.

You really need one of those digital wallets.

I am NOT carrying a laptop. Only a PocketPC PDA with WIFI.

We will only be e-mailing 5 to 10MB worth of photos at a time, so we
will still need another way to offload the photos for storage since it
would take hours to upload the entire SD card full of photos and movie
clips over the internet anyway.
How difficult is it to find places in Europe where you can have the
files offloaded to CD-R discs?
Will they copy any files from your SD cards (.avi movie files etc.) to
CD or only jpeg images?

On 28 Jan 2005 14:32:22 -0800, "Nick" wrote:

We will only be e-mailing 5 to 10MB worth of photos at a time, so we
will still need another way to offload the photos for storage since it
would take hours to upload the entire SD card full of photos and movie
clips over the internet anyway.
How difficult is it to find places in Europe where you can have the
files offloaded to CD-R discs?
Will they copy any files from your SD cards (.avi movie files etc.) to
CD or only jpeg images?

You should be able to do this at a net cafe, if you ask nicely. I have
no idea how much it will cost though.

Are you aware that you can buy a 256mb SD card for around $80, or
cheaper if it's duty free? This way you can store a lot of photos and
video.
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