Digital Photo Madness

Posted on February 7, 2006
Filed Under Geeeek Stuff

For the past month or two I’ve felt the completely irrational need to buy one of these digital picture frames. From what I had seen about them they looked pretty cool. Drop a couple dozen photos on a memory card, pop it in the back of the frame, hit the power button and blam-o! You’ve got a slideshow. Drop some MP3s on the card as well and now you have a slideshow with a soundtrack. To me, the idea just sounded cool. The price? Well, that sorta kept me from running out and getting one.

Fast forward to a couple weeks ago. My Paypal account was looking fairly healthy after selling a few ads on one of my sites. So, in order to calm my OCD/ADHD, I went ahead and bought the frame. It arrived on Friday and I have to tell you, I was absolutely blown away. The screen is big and bright. The photos look amazing. It’s simple as all hell to set up and use. The remote lets you fast forward, rewind pause both your photos or music. It’s really is better than I expected. Oh, forgot to mention you can purchase different faceplates for the screen to match your decor.
There is a newer version of this frame that has Wi-Fi built in. Set up the frame with it’s own email address and you can email it photos that will automatically be added to your slideshow. You should probably keep that email address private or else you’ll likely get surprised with midget porn sent to you from your comedic buddies. My office doesn’t have a wi-fi connection available so I didn’t bother dropping the extra $60. But, if I ever get one for home, you can bet I’ll spring for it.
I’m thinking this would make an awesome gift for grandparents. Just load up new memory cards and drop them in the mail.� They’ll be cooing over the new photos in an instant.

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