“Family Circle” Article Recommends Digital Picture Frame for the Home
The October 1, 2008, issue of Family Circle has a really interesting article by Christine Wood and Dan Tynan on page 56 called “Extreme Makeover Tech Edition.” This is an article everyone who owns a computer should read; it’s full of simple upgrades that can make our lives a lot easier. One of the hints is about what to do with all those pictures stored on your computer. You can probably guess what the solution was. . . .
. . . and you’d be correct.
This article is about the Crickmans, a family of five in California. Their computer was a mess, full of unused games and viruses, music and pictures, and all the usual things that tend to pile up in everybody’s computer after a while. The computer was also full of dust.
The family was given all kinds of help and hints as to how to make things better, and they worked!
The article’s authors had this to say about what to do with this computer’s stored photographs:
“Angela (Mrs. Crickman) switched to a digital camera a few years ago, but now the family photos are less organized than when she got envelopes full of prints. ‘I know my photos are on my computer - somewhere,’ she says. ‘I used to make albums so we could look at pictures whenever we wanted. Now you need a degree in computer science to find a snapshot in our house.’
“Picasa is another convenient - and free! - tool from Google. It scans your computer’s entire hard drive, extracts images and neatly displays them as thumbnails. You can cherry-pick the best and delete the duds, then upload to popular sites like kodakgallery.com, shutterfly.com, or snapfish.com or share via Picasa’s Web album feature.
The next step was putting a few favorite photos on display where everyone could enjoy them. Angela plugged two Pandigital frames into her computer and dragged the photos onto the frames’ icons on her desktop, then set the frames to display a continuous slide show of images. She liked them so much she decided to buy a frame for her parents.”
What does 11-year-old Sophie Crickman think of the new Pandigital frames?
“”I love everything about the (computer) makeover. . . My friends like to check out the digital frames.”
I would only suggest that if the Crickmans ever get a wireless digital picture frame - and Pandigital certainly makes some excellent ones- that they check out FrameChannel to organize all their content.
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