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Put A Digital Spectrum MF8104 Wireless Digital Frame in Your Child’s Dorm Room!

Many of you are sending your son or daughter off to college this week, and did you ever imagine having so much stuff in YOUR dorm room back in the day?  I considered myself lucky to have a window fan, and my daughter is leaving tomorrow with a microwave oven, and little refrigerator, a toaster, a TV, and DVD player, a computer, a stereo system,  and a wireless digital picture frame.

Me, personally, I think the wireless picture frame is what she’ll enjoy the most.

Her dorm is wireless, so we got her a Digital Spectrum MF 8104, the same as I have at home.  I’ve not had a single problem with it and I can happily and honestly recommend it to all of you, too.  I’ll be able to send digital pictures to her with lightning rapidity, and she can send them to me, too.  She’s in the process of setting up a FrameChannel account for herself, too; it’s the best content provider out there.

She’s going to subscribe to the local hometown news and her new college news.  She was scrolling through the dozens and dozens of FrameChannel RSS channel choices as I left for the grocery store and when I returned,  she wasn’t finished checking all of them out yet!   She’s going to let FrameChannel handle her Facebook pictures, too.

If you have a child who is leaving home for college, think about geting him/her a wireless digital photo frame.  It’s an excellent way to keep in touch.

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 in Your Library? What A Great Idea!

Don’t you think it would be really great if libraries had a wireless/digital picture frame, positioned where people would always see it when they entered the building? New books could be showcased on it, and old books, too, for that matter. Authors and their biographies, movies based on books, pictures of library patrons and children’s reading clubs, pictures of prizes kids could win by reading, prize-winning essays by kids, book reviews, even chapters from books!

All these things, in the library lobby or by the front desk, changing, changing, changing, slideshowing, showcasing all the things the library has to offer, things people didn’t KNOW the library offered!

So very often, people choose a book by its cover, even though we all know we shouldn’t. Why not feature book jackets on the wireless/digital frame? What great publicity for a book! Have the local children make posters about their favorite books, and feature those on the wireless/digital frame, too.

If the library was a wireless hotspot, it could subscribe to all kinds of wonderful channels via FrameChannel! The weather, and Nasa, and National Geographic, all KINDS of National Geographic channels! National, international, and local news. Sports - all kinds of sports - specific teams, sports in general, scores. Horoscopes. Traffic reports and patterns. Famous paintings and other kinds of art. ALL kinds of art. Business. Career tips. “This day in history.” Inspirational quotations. Trivia. Cartoons. Bible quotes. Recipes. Bible quotes. House and home tips. Word of the day. Travel. Calendars. Clocks. Absolutely all kinds of photographs. Cats. Dogs. Horses. Cars. Racing. More. More. More. Etc.

In other words, pretty much everything. You can get all of these channels, and MORE, on your own wireless/digital photo frame at home, too, I hope you know by now! I do. FrameChannel ROCKS!

Personally, I believe that every business/institution/school should have a wireless/digital picture frame right up front where customers and visitors can see it. People look at wireless/digital picture frames, folks. A wise business will have one, fully loaded, in the lobby or waiting room. People WATCH.