If you shoot digital pix (is there really anyone left who doesn’t?) and have multiple devices, especially both a Mac and PC, plus a smart phone, and/or you travel a lot, then you really should check out Sharpcast. It just announced at the Le Web show in Paris its Mac uploader. This is great news for anyone using Apple’s photo organizing/editing app — iPhoto — which is flat-out the best one out there, my friends. [Not a day goes by when I don’t use it…and love it.]

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So, synch your brains out, Mac digital shooters — across all the toys you got! Even if some of them say “Windows” on ’em…. With Sharpcast, Mac users can back up and share their albums online and view their iPhoto albums on a smart phone or Windows-based PC. You can export iPhoto albums directly from your Mac to your Sharpcast Photos Web albums in just a few clicks, where they are backed up, easy to share, and automatically synched all the way down to your mobile phone and PC desktop. You can get the iPhoto uploader as a free download at www.sharpcast.com/download.

But, Wait – There’s More
The photo app from Sharpcast is the first thing out of the chute for this well-backed startup. [See my coverage from DEMO ’06 back in February.] It’s built on the company’s patent-pending universal “push” synchronization platform, which it says “marks the first time that Blackberry-like push synchronization capability is available to the average consumer, outside of an enterprise setting.” It automatically backs up photo collections online, organizes them into web albums, and keeps the collection constantly up to date across all of a person’s mobile phones, all their PCs, and the web. It thus eliminates the hassles of manual uploading, sync cables, etc, so people can get on with creating and enjoying their media.

Here’s what’s coming from Sharpcast next: it previewed at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco its upcoming product code-named Hummingbird. It’s a solution for backing up, sharing, accessing, and syncing ALL your documents, photos, music, and video — across all the computers you use, the web, and optionally your mobile phone, in what the company says is “a completely automatic way.” Sharpcastsynchgraphic Watch for a publicly available version of Hummingbird in the first half of 2007. Anyone interested can sign up as an “alpha” tester at www.sharpcast.com/products/hummingbird.

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