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Zune Puts eBooks on Your Wireless/Digital Picture Frame

Roversoft’s Zune eBook Creator allows you to put eBooks on your wireless digital photo frame! The eBook Creator transforms the text into a “picture,” much as though you were scanning a book and saving each page as a picture, and therefore your wireless frame can pick up the eBook and display it on its screen just as it would any photograph. In other words, the eBook Creator can produce jpeg images from eBook formatted files.

Both English and Russian versions are supported.

You will have the ability to modify your eBooks, just as you do your photographs.

Take a look at the demo.

The RoverSoft Zune eBook Creator costs $19.50, and you can download it right from the RoverSoft site. All of the reviews I found were positive, and there is a help file on the website.

Where can you find eBooks to download and convert? My goodness; they’re all over the internet! Too many to link here, but if you just search for “eBooks” you’ll find plenty of good reading, and most of it free.

D-Link Now Shipping New Wi-Fi Digital Photo Frame

If you are one of the many people who’ve been waiting for D-Link to ship the new wireless DSM-210 digital picture frame, your wait is over!  D-Link is now shipping it!

I’ve posted twice before about the D-Link DSM-210 wireless digital picture frame, and now that it’s on the market, people are finding out how cool it really is.

Wherever you might keep your pictures on your computer - Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, FrameChannel, etc. - the D-Link wireless photo frame can access them and turn them into a slideshow that your family and friends will thoroughly enjoy.

The DSM-210 also allows you to stream internet content such as news, sports, weather, trivia, great art, NASA, etc. directly to your wireless picture frame.  Anything with “RSS” on it can be accessed, in fact.

Remember this symbol?  Watch for it when you surf the internet.  When you see the RSS symbol, you can subscribe to the site you’re looking at and view it on your wireless DSM-210.

D-Link wireless picture frames are all FrameChannel-friendly, too.  FrameChannel is an excellent content provider and the accounts are absolutely free, there. 

Steven Joe, president and CEO of D-Link Systems, Inc., tells us that “Bringing this easy-to-use Wi-Fi and Internet-enabled photo frame to market is an important extension of our digital home strategy where the home network serves as a powerful platform to connect together a variety of devices beyond just PC’s.  This 10″ photo frame (DSM-210) is an ideal solution for customers wanting to view not only the hundreds of photos stored on their PC’s but those they’ve uploaded for others to share over the Internet.  It was also important that we provide our customers the added benefit of accessing content that interests them from the frame such as the latest news, weather and sports scores without the need to turn on the PC.”

Not only is the new D-Link DSM-210 wireless, it’s also GREEN!  It has a power-saving motion detector, so when someone is in the room, the frame turns on, and when nobody is in the room, the frame automatically switches off, to save electricity.

The DSM-210 is wireless, but it can also be updated via most standard flash memory formats.  Plus, the frame itself has a full gig of internal memory.  You can hang it on the wall, or display it on a table or desktop.

The D-Link DSM-210 wireless digital picture frame has a 10-inch widescreen and a wireless remote.  It comes with interchangeable black and white faceplates, but thanks to a partnership with Skinit (TM), D-Link has custom skins available, so if you want a specific type or color or style of frame, just let them know!

What a great wireless digital photo frame for only $249.99!

Parrot’s New Designer Collection Begins With Andree Putman

This classy beauty is from the Parrot Designer Collection, and it was designed by Andree Putman.

Those in the know will recognize Putman’s personal style immediately.  And whether you are in the know or not, Parrot’s gorgeous Putman frame is absolutely fantastic!

Putman says that “I would like to pay tribute to Parrot for daring to think that this wonder of technology could be coiled up inside a beautifujl wrapping.  Storage fans will be the most vulnerable to the charm of this object, which will overcome any problems of arranging photo souvenirs.”

According to Henri Seydoux, CEO and founder of Parrot, “Here at Parrot, we have always put design in the limelight.  The Parrot frame by Andree Putman is the first in a series of artistic dedications for our range of wireless audiovisual products.”

This new and artistic Parrot frame is wireless, and the bright, clear 15-inch LCD screen makes your pictures look wonderful, even from across a large room.  Just like all the other Parrot wireless/digital picture frames, the Putman frame automatically rotates and resizes all of your pictures to stylishly fit the screen.  There are several choices of slideshow, too.

Bluetooth technology allows you to transfer pictures to the Putman frame directly from your cell phone!  You can also program the wireless frame to display pictures from your computer via most content providers.  Unfortunately, Parrot wireless frames are not yet programmed to use FrameChannel, but I’m sure that day is coming.

Picture frames of all kinds have always been attractive, and with the advent of noted artists designing wireless/digital picture frames now, it’s like having a work of art in your room!  In fact, you DO have a work of art in your room!

The new Parrot Designer Collection is not available in the States yet, but just you wait a bit:  soon Americans will be able to purchase these beautiful wireless picture frames, too!

New Pictures Appear on my Wireless Digital Picture Frame!

Have I mentioned lately how much I adore FrameChannel?  Oh, I have?  Well, I’m mentioning it again!  It can’t be said too often, how superior and wonderful FrameChannel is!

First of all, I never turn my Digital Spectrum MF8104 wireless digital picture frame off.  Ever.  I like to think of my precious pictures slideshowing across the screen whether someone is looking at them or not.  Every week, I add a dozen or so new pictures to my FrameChannel account; it’s simply the best content provider on the planet, and the new pics start showing up in the slideshow immediately!

I was away from the house all day today.  When I got back a few hours ago, I noticed that my wireless picture frame was showcasing some pictures I’d never seen before.

I stood and looked at the wireless frame for almost ten minutes, without moving a muscle.  One thing everybody notices when they get a wireless/digital picture frame is the fact that nobody can be in the same room with one without being mesmerized by the slideshow!  While I was watching, tonight, I counted at least thirty brand new pictures of precious relatives: pictures I’d never seen before in my life.  I realized that my aunt had emailed the pictures directly to my wireless frame!

Other relatives and friends have been doing this for quite some time, but this aunt is older and not all that tech-savvy.  The fact that she sent my FrameChannel account all those wonderful pictures is proof positive that nobody has to be very “techie” to use FrameChannel!!!!!

A new cousin is growing up, many states away, and I’m missing it.  WAS missing it.  Tonight, thanks to my aunt and FrameChannel, I got pretty well caught up.  I hadn’t seen Zach since he was born, but tonight, I watched him grow before my very eyes.

What are you waiting for?  Get your FrameChannel account NOW, and give your wireless picture frame’s email address to your family and friends so they can keep you updated on what’s going on with people, nearby or far, far away.

FrameChannel is like access to magic.  MAGIC.