Archive for Tips & Tricks

Eye-Fi Thieves Capture Themselves! So Funny!

I’ve raved before over how cool the Eye-Fi memory card is, and that everybody should have one. Well, I’m saying it again, and here’s one more reason why: if a thief steals your camera and uses it, your Eye-Fi card will send all his pictures to YOUR computer! And you can BAG THE JERK!

According to Reuter’s, Alison DeLauzon accidentally left her camera in a restaurant while on vacation, and when she went back for it, it was gone. She was very upset, for not only had she lost her camera, she had also lost tons of pictures and videos of her baby son.

But later, back home, Alison “. . . opened up the Eye-Fi manager on the computer and, lo and behold, there are the guys that stole our cameras. Not only is it the guy who stole our camera. . . but the guy took a picture of (his accomplice) holding our other camera.”

My husband was apparently not the only spouse to get an Eye-Fi card last Christmas! That’s when Alison got hers, too, and thanks to that magical card, she got her cameras back.

The thieves who were busily snapping pictures with their ill-gotten gains did not realize that when they walked by an unsecured network, the Eye-Fi automatically sent ALL of the photos to its registered manager on Alison’s home computer; in other words, each picture they took was immediately uploaded right smack onto her computer. Just as the Reuter’s article said, “. . . her camera “phoned home.” Just like E.T.!

Alison didn’t press charges again the restaurant employees who stole her camera - THAT’S where she and I would differ! - but yes, they were fired.

“When we finally got it back, my husband and I spent the night just sitting and watching the videos - stupid videos, like him feeding himself for the first time or him pulling himself up in his crib for the first time. We sat down one night and just relished it.”

I can’t say enough good things about the Eye-Fi memory card. We love ours, and Alison loves hers, and you’ll love YOURS when you get it. They’re about a hundred bucks and worth every penny. Ask Alison DeLauzon!

A Wireless Digital Picture Frame Is Better Than A Postcard!

I’m on a little vacation, and my husband is still working.  I could be sending him post cards, of course; they’re only a quarter apiece and they have beautiful scenery on them.

But why send someone else’s picture when I can send him the pictures I take, myself!  I’m taking pictures like mad, and adding them to my FrameChannel account the minute I get back to the house, so my husband sees exactly where I’ve been and what I’ve seen, and many of the pictures have my brother, sister-in-law, nephews, and ME in them, to make them far more personal than a purchased post card with a picture taken by a stranger.

When he gets home from teaching calculus to high school students all day, he can sit back in his comfy chair and see, sometimes just a few minutes after it really happened, exactly what I’m doing!

Next time, I’m borrowing his Eye-fi card!

MagMyPic, on PhotoJoJo. What Fun!

I was playing over on the PhotoJoJo website and I found their VERY interesting and fun MagMyPic!

With MagMyPic, you can put your photograph, or anybody else’s, for that matter, on a (fake) but very real-looking magazine cover!

I put my whole family, one at a time, on “magazines” that best befitted them, in my opinion. (snicker) I uploaded them into my FrameChannel account, so they’re slideshowing, randomly, across my wireless picture frame as I type. It’s awesome.

You can also put your MagMyPic on your Facebook, MySpace, and other websites!

The “magazine” shown here is my very own Digital Spectrum MF8104 wireless digital picture frame, shown -most appropriately, too - on TruLove magazine.

There is a very good reason why I chose TruLove to display my wireless frame.

I think you all know by now what that reason is.

FrameChannel Is The Most Versatile Content Provide, EVER!

The FrameChannel channels are so diverse and wonderful and educational and beautiful!

I personally have signed up for Quote of the Day, Nasa Image of the Day, several National Geographic channels, local, national, and international headlines, the local weather report, and quite a few more.

There are so many positive things about having a FrameChannel account that I could never cover them all in one blogpost, but one of the very coolest things FrameChannel does for you is that, when you are cruising the long, long list of channels for your wireless digital picture frame, FrameChannel shows you exactly what that channel is showing at that exact moment in time. You can see what subscribing to that particular channel will look like on that wireless picture frame in your living room.

Just log in to your FrameChannel account and click on “Find A Channel” up at the top of the page. Once there, click on any of the categories listed on the left side of the page. That will take you to a long list of subcategories for that main category. To see what a subscription to that particular channel will look like on your own screen, just take a look; it’s right there. Real-time: what’s shown there is what would be shown on your wireless frame.

I love that - being able to SEE what you get before you make a decision. It’s like a sample!

If you like what you see, just click “Add to my frame,” and within seconds these pictures/feeds/headlines, etc. will be part of the slideshow right there in your home.

FrameChannel is the most versatile content provider in the business.