Archive for July, 2008
I’ve blogged here about unique flash drives before, but I’m going to do it again, because flash drives are a subject in which I am VERY interested. I’m a college professor, and I carry all of my tests, quizzes, essays, and grades in a flash drive. At any given time, there are approximately six or seven flash drives in my purse, and more in my brief case. Besides, digital picture frames can use a flash drive, and if you’re going to have a flash drive sticking out of your frame or computer, it might as well be one that will make everyone who sees it give it a second, and even a third, look.
Admit it, haven’t there been times when you wanted to take a hammer and just go to town on one of your electronic gadgets? Of course you have! We all have. We don’t really do it, of course, because we’re civilized people, but the thoughts do pop up in our minds from time to time when something won’t download, or we get a Windows error message, or something just won’t turn on at ALL, etc.
This USB flash drive, or memory stick, from Plankton of the Netherlands, looks exactly like a big nail jammed in your pc or laptop or digital frame or wherever it’s being used. Plankton describes their newest flash drive thusly: “It is a USB stick with a vengeance.” The 2 gig Nailed USB flash drive retails for about $46.00, and I feel better just LOOKING at it!
Oh, and just think of all the pictures it will hold! Your digital photo frame will be ecstatic!
Silver and gold. That’s what you’re bringing into your home when you purchase a Coby DP-767 digital picture frame.
Included are interchangeable silver and gold (it’s really brass, but it looks like gold!) faceplates, so you can change the “look” of your digital frame at will. (The gold would look lovely at holiday time, for example!)
Your Coby DP-767 digital picture frame will show your pictures, your mp3’s, and your videos, all of which you can control with the handy wireless remote. Just sit in your easy chair, point the remote, and program away!
The Coby digital frame supports a variety of media formats, such as JPEG, Mp3, WMA, AVI, MPG, and XviD, along with multiple memory formats. In other words, pretty much any memory card from any camera, and pretty much any flash drive, will work with this digital frame.
Right now, on Amazon, this new Coby digital frame is only $68.94, and is eligible for free shipping!
All over the web, people who went to the huge BlogHer conference in San Francisco are putting their pictures on their websites and encouraging each other to help themselves. On Flickr, there are several BlogHer 08 sets, and I should know, because I have one, too!
Most BlogHers had to wait until they got back home to upload their many BlogHer pictures from their camera’s memory card, but I didn’t. My BlogHer pictures were already slideshowing on my Digital Spectrum MF 8104 wireless digital picture frame before I ever set foot on the plane in the San Francisco airport for my trip back home.
I used an Eye-Fi card at BlogHer, so my pictures were appearing on my wireless picture frame just a few minutes after they were taken; my family in Indiana saw my BlogHer pictures even before I did!
Here’s the thing, you see: I set up a FrameChannel channel for my Flickr BlogHer pictures; in other words, every picture in the BlogHer 08 Flickr set that’s tagged “BlogHer08″ or “BlogHer2008″ is being picked up and included in the slideshow! FrameChannel is like magic! My Digital Spectrum MF8104 is like a magic mirror, and all I have to do is stand and look at it and it lets me relive all those wonderful memories of the good time I had at BlogHer 08 in San Francisco last week.
So, come on, BlogHers! Tag your pictures with “BlogHer08″ or “BlogHer2008,” and let FrameChannel be your content provider. Whether you’ve put your pictures in Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Picasa, etc, FrameChannel can turn them into a channel that people can subscribe to!
You can make a subscribeable channel of anything, you know. It’s a great way to share reunions, parties, graduations, etc, too!
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I’ve blogged about Toshiba digital picture frames before, but Toshiba has introduced another frame that merits a blogpost of its own: the Toshiba Tekbright digital picture frame.
We are a picture-taking society; few of us go anywhere without a digital camera in tow, but what do we do with all of those wonderful pictures once we’ve put them on our computers in a file or photo-sharing website? Most of the time, we forget all about them, that’s what.
This won’t happen if you have a digital picture frame! You’ll be able to see all of your pictures, in rotation in a slideshow, whenever the frame is turned on. If you’re like me, your frame will be turned on all the time; in fact, I never turn mine off! If I have to get up in the night, I really like to see my pictures as I walk past my wireless frame to the kitchen. I think seeing my pictures even influences my dreaming, in a positive way!
The Toshiba Tekbright digital frame has a row of blue LED-light touch-sensitive buttons across the bottom of the frame, which I think gives the frame a futuristic look that I really like. You can load your pictures into this frame with almost any memory card or flash drive, directly from your computer with the included USB cable, or by uploading a LOT of pictures into the 64MB of internal memory. That’s a lot of pictures, folks!
The Toshiba Tekbright digital picture frame not only shows pictures and videos; it also has a clock, calendar, and Mp3 player! The 7-inch LCD touchscreen display makes configurations easy, and lets you view your pictures and videos clearly even from across the room.
This new Toshiba Tekbright frame isn’t available in the States yet, but keep watching this space!
I’ve blogged here about unique flash drives before, but I’m going to do it again, because flash drives are a subject in which I am VERY interested. I’m a college professor, and I carry all of my tests, quizzes, essays, and grades in a flash drive. At any given time, there are approximately six or seven flash drives in my purse, and more in my brief case. Besides, digital picture frames can use a flash drive, and if you’re going to have a flash drive sticking out of your frame or computer, it might as well be one that will make everyone who sees it give it a second, and even a third, look.
