Imagine uploading your photos from your digital camera and from your mobile phone to Facebook and Flickr using the same software interface. Now imagine downloading a YouTube video to your phone by clicking a browser bookmarklet. You can do both in Dazzboard, a new media Webtop in open beta that fast-tracks your photos, songs, and videos to and from your mobile device to your computer or the online world.
There is a catch: the USB leash. You’ve got to plug the device into the computer via USB. The trade off is being able to manage the phone’s media content from a computer dashboard, which is infinitely more comfortable than managing it from the device’s tiny interface. If you’re not on the move, dashboards like Dazzboard offer most of the convenience of mobile management, and are overall much easier on the eye.
Here’s how Dazzboard plays out. After registering for a free account, plug your device–like your mobile phone, digital MP3 player, or Sony PSP (or all three in succession)–into the computer by way of a USB cable. You may need to switch some devices, like BlackBerry and Windows Mobile phones, into mass storage mode for this to work (see FAQs). Dazzboard’s ‘universal’ device manager recognizes the device and lets you bilaterally interact with music, photos, and videos. You can upload content to the Web or to the PC, or quickly transfer media from your computer or from the Web to your device.
Songs on the Android G1.
(Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)
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Originally posted at The Download Blog
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