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The GeCube Genie Tablet is a Wireless Laptop AND a Wireless Digital Picture Frame

What we have here is the GeCube Genie Tablet Jr.

It’s a hybrid.

When you want it to be a wireless laptop computer, it’s a wireless laptop computer.

When you don’t need a wireless laptop computer, just detach the screen and put it on the back of your piano, and you’ve got a wireless digital picture frame.

The GeCube Genie Tablet is a Linux tablet computer that moonlights as a wireless digital picture frame. Cool!

The mouse is mounted on the back of the screen, so even though it doesn’t have an actual touchscreen, you can do the basics without the keyboard. The Genie PC has a 300MHz Intel processor, and 256M of ram with 2G of storage for your files, pictures, and whatnot.

The screen is 800 x 480: very bright!

This little GeCube Genie Tablet laptop computer/wireless digital picture frame is a very inexpensive way of putting both a computer AND a wireless digital photo frame in almost every room of your house.

The keyboard is made of rubber. You could even put one of these in your bathroom.

It’s a great way to do some light websurfing all around the house, and to have access to a wireless picture frame when you’ve finished surfing!

All this, and a bag of chips, for only $279.00. The GeCube Genie Tablet will be available this spring.

New York Times Article Reviews Seven Wireless/Digital Picture Frames

David Pogue of the New York Times wrote a fascinating article last week about how technology constantly improves itself. He says, and he’s spot-on right, that “Every fast, slick and successful product today has a crude, expensive and annoying ancestor.”

He then goes on to say that wireless/digital picture frames have improved drastically over the years, in almost every possible category and aspect. Please click over to Mr. Pogue’s article; he gives his honest opinion of seven wireless/digital picture frames. He tell us why these frames are superior, and he’s also not afraid to make some suggestions.

Don’t forget to watch the video!

Using FrameChannel with the Digital Spectrum Wireless Picture Frame

The Digital Spectrum frame is set up using the onscreen menu and keyboard. Setting up your Digital Spectrum frame to showcase all your FrameChannel images can be completed in minutes. FrameChannel just posted some very useful instructions on setting up Digital Spectrum frames. Check them out HERE

A few notes on the set up process:

After you plug your frame in and enter the date and time, you’ll be ready to set up the RSS feed from your FrameChannel account.

The first thing you need to do is set Digital Spectrum as you frame type in your FrameChannel account settings.

If your internet connection requires a network key, you’ll want to have that handy before you start the set up process.

Using the keyboard on the DigitalSpectrum frame can be a bit tedious, but you’ll only have to set up your RSS feed info once. You will need to use the Shift button to enter capital letters and common symbols, such as “&” and “?”, both of which are used in most of the RSS feed addresses.

What if FrameChannel doesn’t appear as an option?
Have you connected your frame to the wireless network and entered the RSS feed address, but FrameChannel still doesn’t appear as an option on the Photo sharing website menu?

First, ensure that you are connected to the correct wireless network. Then, check that you have entered the RSS feed info correctly. With such a long address, it’s easy to make a mistake!

As noted in the instructions, your frame will update itself with any changes made to your FrameChannel account only as often as is set by the Frame Update Frequency settings in your account. The default setting is 15 minutes, so any changes made to your channels from your account won’t appear immediately. You can change this setting for a faster response time if desired.

The Nikon Coolpix S50c Camera: A Wifi Wonder!

I am really excited about this new Nikon Coolpix S50c  camera! Nikon cameras have, of course, long been among the very best, but this new Coolpix is one of a kind.

What makes it so special?

It’s got Wifi capabilities, that’s what.

That’s right. With this incredible Nikon Coolpix camera, you can email photos right from the camera, to your Flickr account, or your FrameChannel account, or pretty much any photo account you have. You can email the photos to Grandma AS THEY HAPPEN; before Junior even has time to sit down, Grandma is seeing him accept his diploma from the Dean. You’ll have wedding photos on your wireless digital picture frame before the minister says “I now pronounce you man and wife.” Wherever you may be, whatever you might be seeing. . . . with the Nikon Coolpix camera, you can send fabulous pictures to your computer, to someone else’s computer, or to a wireless digital photo frame, no matter where it might be. Talk about a virtual vacation! Even if you’re not technically THERE, because of technology you’re THERE.

The Nikon Coolpix’s 7.1 megapixel CCD, the 3x optical zoom with vibration reduction, the 3.0-inch LCD with wide 170 -degree viewing angle, the one-touch portrait button, the in-camera red-eye fix function. . . these and other features insure that each photo is of outstanding quality. With Nikon’s Pictmotion, you can even create in-camera slideshows with music, and email the whole thing.

And the very coolest thing about the Coolpix is the built-in wifi antenna, which allows for instant printing, and the Coolpix connect service, which enables you to instantly email any photo to a computer or wireless digital frame.

The new Nikon Coolpix camera is just simply the coolest camera I’ve ever encountered. The thought of what this camera, and a wireless digital picture frame together could do. . . . well, it boggles the mind with possibilities!