Archive for Wireless Picture Frames (User guides)

Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, MSN, Webshots, .Mac, Photobucket. . . Content Provider FRAMECHANNEL Can Use Them All!

What online program do you use for storing your digital photographs? Do you use one program in particular, or do you use several different programs?

With the greatest content provider ever, FrameChannel, you can turn your Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, MSN, Webshots, and several others into a personal (or public) channel and create a slideshow for your wireless digital picture frame, desktop, and others. Pretty much anything you find on the web that has an RSS feed can be sent directly to your wireless photo frame!

Just go to the FrameChannel website and create an account - it’s absolutely free. Then, click on “Create A Channel.” This will take you to a page that lists all the major photosharing websites and shows you how to slide your pictures over to your new FrameChannel account. (Your original photosharing site will still be there; you won’t lose any pictures from it - you’ll just double the fun!) Mix and match the pictures in any way you want; you’re in charge.

If you store your pictures in a file you created yourself, that’s kept on your computer’s desktop, you can use those pictures in your FrameChannel account, too!

FrameChannel is so easy to use, and it lets you utilize your other photo accounts, too. Of course, you can also set your wireless digital picture frame to access any of those Flickr, Picasa, etc., without using FrameChannel, but why would you want to when you can do so much more with a FrameChannel account?

Facebook users (that would be me, too!) think how cool it would be to create a FrameChannel channel that would allow your Facebook pictures, and your Facebook friends’ pictures, to instantly appear on your wireless digital picture frame? And update the minute you or your friends update pictures?

And besides that, anyone you give permission to, ie list their email address within your FrameChannel account, can email pictures directly to your FrameChannel account! Oh, you didn’t know that your FrameChannel account had its very own email address? Well, you do now!

P.S.  Today is the Vernal Equinox: this morning the sun rose DIRECTLY in the east and will set DIRECTLY in the west.  After today, the sun won’t be as strict with itself.

Impecca Introduces Their WiFi Digital Photo Frame at CES

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is always a spectacular electronics extravaganza of new products, and 2008 is no exception.

Every year there are fabulous new electronic gadgets, and for a geek like me, it would be better than a theme park.

Don’t think for one moment that geeks are all nerdy twenty-something males, either. I personally tear that stereotype into pieces so tiny you’d need tweezers to pick them up.

This year, the CES is, as usual, featuring several new wireless/digital picture frames, and one of the best is the new 10-inch Impecca wireless digital frame.

You all know by now that I am the world’s biggest fan of the wireless/digital picture frame, and the Impecca looks like a winner to me. The price is more than reasonable (they’re starting it at $349.00), the resolution is high (800 x 600) and it does a multitude of cool things without being overloaded with confusing bling.

Impecca’s press release includes a list of uses for a wireless digital photo frame, most of which we’ve highlighted here before, but it’s always good to be reminded that a wireless frame is good for so many more uses than merely slideshowing family pictures, although that’s the main usage, again in my opinion.

You can read the Impecca wi-fi LCD digital picture frame’s entire press release here.

My 10.4″ Wireless Digital Photo Frame from Digital Spectrum: Did I Mention That It’s MINE?

I’ve posted about this wireless digital picture frame before. More than once, in fact. I’ve bragged on it and embraced it like a long-lost friend. I’ve written about all of its amazing innovative easy-to-use features, and I’ve commented on its classic beauty.

Every word was true, too. Every. Single. Word.

But now this wireless digital picture frame has a special meaning for me. Yes, it’s one of the very best. Yes, it’s one of the most beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. Yes, you can change the frame to fit any feng shui imaginable. Yes, the price is reasonable; you get what you pay for. Yes, it’s easy to use. Yes, the LCD display presents pictures that are clear and bright and easy to see. Yes, it plays Mp3’s. Yes, it’s wireless and you can send pictures to it from anywhere in the world.

But this particular frame is a 10.4″ wireless digital frame from Digital Spectrum; it’s one of the fantastic premium Memory Frames, and it is at this very moment in time sitting on my dining room table waiting to be hung in its long-prepared place of honor: the wall above the piano. This is finals week at the college, and as soon as that last Scan-Tron card has been filled out and sent through the machine to be scored, I’m coming home and setting my Memory Frame up. I’ve had a FrameChannel account for quite a while now; it won’t take long to connect it to my new frame, and I absolutely can’t WAIT to see it in action.  I have Picasa and Flickr, too, but while those are both very good, FrameChannel is better: more versatile and easier to use.
There’s a lighted Christmas wreath above the piano right now, but that baby is coming down and this wireless frame is going up. Ho ho ho.

Honestly, I haven’t been this excited about a gift since I was a little kid and Santa brought me a telescope.

Be ready, though. You’ll all be seeing a lot more of my house, my kids, my cats, my flowers, my vacations, my relatives, and my attempts to be artistic than you had ever dreamed possible. And so will I.

Yee-hah, I’ve got a wireless digital picture frame in my house!

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.