Six years into being a Mac user, things are starting to annoy me. Not the Macs per se, it’s the phone.

I have always had bad luck when upgrading iOS and iPhones. I supposed I am not savvy enough.
Sometimes it was because I had to unlock my phone illegally when I travel, because I wasn’t going to pay AT&T the big bucks for 2 months abroad. Other times, it’s because the hubby and I traded phones, and I got confused along the process.

So my last screw up caused me to lose a few hundred photos and all my iCal data that I’ve collected since my first iPhone (I’m on my third). I trusted iCloud without ever checking…

Anyways, I am going to be smarter with backups now. And here’s an app that I am so glad to have stumbled upon. WiFi Photo Transfer.

With a self-explanatory name, WiFi Photo Transfer lets you download photos from your iPhone, iPad, and/or iPods to your computer via wifi. No syncing necessary.

It works only when both the device and the computer are on the same wifi network.

I am in love with it because it packaged all my photos (up to 200 at a time) along with the EXIF and geo info (!!!!!) into one zip file that I download onto the computer! A file that will not be part of iTunes, Photo Stream, iPhoto, or iCloud, there’s no way to lose it anymore. I would have given money for this, but this is free. I get to bypass the oh-so-aggravating iPhoto which was the only way to access Photo Stream that I know of. I can’t ask for more. Can I?