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Amazon’s Full Page of Wireless/Digital Picture Frame Suggestions for Your Mother!

With Mother’s Day only a week away, businesses of all kinds are telling you exactly what your mother wants to see when she opens her gifts.  While it is still true that many women want flowers, candy, jewelry, perfume, it is equally true that today’s electronics-savvy women want something else, as well.

Today’s woman wants to unwrap a wireless/digital picture frame on May 11th!

I know this for a fact.  I’m a woman, and a mother, and my own wireless digital picture frame - my beautiful, wonderful Digital Spectrum MF 8104 - is the coolest thing I own.  I update it every few days.  My family and friends send me pictures for it, so I can keep up with them and their families, too.  Everyone who walks through my living room stops to watch the slideshow, to see my beautiful children grow up before their eyes, to see loved ones, long gone, live again in my picture frame. . . .but I’ve spoken of these things before.

Even if your mother has never heard of digital picture frames before, she will love it.  Even if your mother is like mine, and refuses to have anything whatsoever to do with computers and “gadgets,” she will love the digital picture frame that you have already loaded full of pictures for her.  Just do what I did with my mother: load the frame full, set it up for her on a table or wall, and tell her she doesn’t even have to touch it.  Tell her that all she has to do is look at it.  Your mom, like mine, will fall madly in love with it and show it off to all her friends.

Of course, if your mom IS tech-savvy, she’ll appreciate it even more!  Get wireless if you can, so your mom can have access to your or her own FrameChannel account!

Individual companies are offering great bargains for your mother’s gift, but over on Amazon, they’ve put out a page that lists almost ALL of the major brands of wireless/digital frames.  All are marked down from the price you’d pay at a regular store, and there is still time to get a frame for your mom before next Sunday!

Just look at what Amazon has to offer, by way of wireless/digital picture frame choices!

Simon Trading Company Introduces Wi-Fi Digital Photo Frame

Last March, Simon Trading Co. Ltd. introduced its new Wi-Fi-enabled digital photo frame.

The frame is compatible with Picasa and other photo-sharing sites, and stores up to 5,000 photographs in its 2G’s of storage.

The 8-inch TFT panel supports high resolution RGB 800 x 600 pixels.

You can send and receive photos and other email to or from any e-mail address from this wireless picture frame; it has a built-in address book!

You can also load pictures from almost any memory card or flash drive.

This Simon wireless digital picture frame has a built-in Li-polymer battery for 2 hours or more of photo display. You don’t have to keep it plugged in all the time, which means this wireless digital frame gives you more decorating options in a room.

The frame comes with a wireless remote; that makes it even easier to use!

The clock and date functions are also very nice. You can hang this frame on the wall - nice, with no cord hanging down! - or you can put it on your desk, bookcase, the back of the piano, or pretty much any place you wish.

You can upgrade this frame online.

Besides all of the above functions, this frame can also be used with the pretty picture frames you’ve already got! It mounts into most 8 x 6 photo frames quite easily.

What’s not to like?

Price and availability to be announced soon.

Give Your Mother A Wireless Digital Picture Frame on May 11th. She Wants One.

This is an attractive picture frame. It would look well on your wall, or on your piano, or anywhere you put it, actually. It’s a really nice black wooden picture frame. The framed photograph is bright and clear, and if you gave your mother a picture of her grandchildren, framed exactly like this, she would probably love it. She would put it on the wall or on her desk, and occasionally she would look at it and smile.

This second picture frame, however, is a Digital Spectrum MF8104. It, too, is an attractive picture frame, and it, too, would look well on your wall, or on your piano, or anywhere you put it. It’s a really nice wooden frame. The framed photograph. . . but wait. The Digital Spectrum MF8104 doesn’t have just ONE framed photograph. I can tell you, first-hand, that MY Digital Spectrum MF8104 has well over four thousand framed photographs. Thanks to my FrameChannel account, that number is growing, too. If you gave your mother four thousand photographs of her grandchildren, children, dogs, cats, relatives, friends, neighbors, vacations, old school days, etc, she would probably love it. She would put it on the wall or on her desk and she would look at it four dozen times a day and smile. The MF8104 is also wireless, so you could send your mother new pictures as quickly as you could take them.

She’s your mother. You decide.

But you’d better decide quickly, because Mother’s Day is May 11th.

My Wireless Digital Picture Frames Helps Me Contemplate Mortality

I don’t lecture at the college today until 1:30,  and I could have slept in. Sleeping in is the very essence of “weekend” to me, and I usually make use of every opportunity that comes my way. I am a night person to the extreme, and I am at my most alert in the wee sma’s. I would have been an excellent vampire; the hours are ideal, and the thought of being empowered to suck the very lifeblood out of anybody who wronged me is most appealing.

It worries me, those thoughts. I’d stop having them if I could, but since it’s obvious to anybody who knows me even a little bit that I really like them they are beyond my control, I just have to live with them. It’s a condition. I can’t help it. I should be getting guv’ment money because I have a condition. Everybody else who has a condition is getting money for it.

It’s not my fault that I have a condition. I should be monetarily compensated for having a condition. Gone are the days when vampires were labeled “monsters” and sold in plastic pieces by Aurora Models along with Frankenstein (which is NOT the monster’s name) Wolfman, and the Mummy.

Whatever. I couldn’t sleep in this morning, and it’s my mother’s fault. I gave her a Kodak S510 digital picture frame for Mother’s Day (I’m early, but I couldn’t wait to give it to her) (If you search carefully, you can find one for under forty bucks now!) and she let me take her old photo albums home to scan the best pictures so I can put them on the digital frame. (Digital picture frames are AWESOME. And wireless digital picture frames are even better!) (Mine has its own email address; let me know if you’d like to send me some pics.) (Seriously, I absolutely adore my beautiful, wonderful wireless picture frame.) (I’d love to get pictures from you!)

So, until almost 5 a.m., I was turning pages, scanning old photographs (some taken with a Brownie Starmite; some were taken with a little square brown plastic camera my mother had in high school; there were even a few tintypes!) People I’ve known all my life danced through those photo albums. My parents, aunts, uncles, neighbors. . . people I thought were OLD when they were actually in their twenties and thirties. . . and they were all so beautiful. My siblings, from birth to yesterday, changing so subtly year after year until finally they looked as they look today. The house where we all grew up: it was so TINY! I never noticed until last night just how small that house really was. My mother and father, interacting with us, in color and in black-and-white. . . somehow, the black-and-white photographs were far more beautiful and telling.

I finished scanning the stack of albums, but haven’t trimmed and cleaned up all the pictures yet. And when I take this stack of albums back, I’ll take home yet another stack.

It’s a good thing I bought a 2-gig flash drive last night; the 512MB drive that’s in her frame now would never be able to handle this kind of picture load. The new drive is a Lexar and it’s only about an inch long. If you have a digital picture frame and want to use a flash drive with it, I highly recommend this tiny Lexar. It doesn’t even show when it’s plugged into the frame!

Buy it at WalMart or K-Mart, though. It’s wayyyy cheaper there. Considerably. Isn’t technology amazing? Who could ever imagine that something an inch long could hold thousands of pictures?

Anyway, back to my original point: I couldn’t sleep in this morning because my dreams kept waking me up. Where did all of these young, beautiful people go?

Then I looked in the mirror and thought, “Yes, where indeed?” Sigh.

Fortunately, on my Digital Spectrum MF 8104 wireless digital picture frame, everybody in the world whom I love is forever young, and alive, and full of life.  And yes, I am putting all of Mom’s newly-scanned photographs right straight into my FrameChannel account.  Already they’re in the slideshow.  It’s wonderful.

And in Mom’s new Kodak S510 digital frame, everyone is forever young, alive, and full of life, too, thanks to that Lexar flash drive.

All four thousand pictures’ worth of people.