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Ari M August 5, 2012 Posts 4 Comments

My iPhone is almost full of photos, which is no small part due to the fact that I have a 7 month old boy and we’ve taken about a thousand pictures at this point. When Apple starting offering iTunes Match, enabling you to take all of your music off your phone and stream it from the cloud, I was ecstatic. Why haven’t they offered something like this for your photos? Well fear note because thanks to an app called CameraSync, some good things are now possible.

CameraSync has been around for a while and it basically just allows you backup your camera roll to cloud services like Dropbox or even a FTP server. That still required you going to the app and opening it and then leaving it open while ALL of your photos were backed up to the server. They just updated the program last week so now you can set certain locations by GPS like your home or office where the app will automatically start running in the background and upload all of your new pictures. I’ve been using it for a few days and it is seamless. I highly recommend it.

Once the photos are uploaded you can delete them from your phone and use the Dropbox app to stream your photos. A near perfect solution.

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Ari M

In 2006, I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Crohn's is an incurable disease of the digestive tract. My case was severe, and required over a dozen daily medications and several hospital visits. After reaching a personal low point in hospital, I decided he would do everything in my power to strengthen my by then weak body. Through a combination of yoga, nutrition, natural supplements and rigorous exercise (Ironman and Crossfit) i was able to fight back the symptoms of Crohn's until I was finally able to suspend my medication. Eventually I was declared free of all traces of the 'incurable' disease, and competed in Ironman France in June of 2011. I has since spoken at seminars and at a regional TED Talk about my struggle against a seemingly insurmountable opponent. Through the process of data collection, self tracking, and analysis, I helped develop Less Doing. This was a way of dealing with the daily stresses of life by optimizing, automating, and outsourcing all of my tasks in life and business. Now I focus on Achievement Architecture, helping individuals be more effective at everything.

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Infopreneurkid

One other (built in) solution is to have iCloud store all your photos and sync them via Photo Stream (built in iOS 5.x). Anytime you take a picture, it gets synced through iCloud and with Photo Stream you can see it on any of your iOS devices or Mac desktop. No need for 3rd-party apps - it's all built in.

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@Infopreneurkid thanks for the tip, can you post a link on how to set that up? Can you safely delete the photos from your phone after?

Infopreneurkid

@liontex Yes, of course:

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/10/13/ios-5-how-to-setup-iclouds-photo-stream-on-mac/

Once the photo is uploaded to iCloud, you can safely delete it from your phone assuming you will sync the photos automatically on your desktop within 30 days with iPhoto. iCloud only stores pictures for 30 days - that's the caveat.

If that's an issue, your solution is a great alternative.