I’ve posted here before about the Eye-Fi cards, and how easy and magical they are. I haven’t changed my mind; in fact, I grow more and more crazy about Eye-Fi with each passing day!
Eye-Fi even has its own Flickr account, and if you go there you can see, among other things, tons and tons of awesome BlogHer pictures! Imagine – your Eye-Fi card will send your pictures back to your computer the very instant you snap them! It’s REAL-TIME wireless pictures, folks.
If you’re still not comprehending the coolness of an Eye-fi card in your digital camera, let me put it this way: when I was at BlogHer in Chicago last weekend, taking pictures right and left, my husband, who had been “left behind” in southern Indiana, was watching these pictures appear as if by magic, on our wireless digital picture frame, seconds after I took them. My brother, in Idaho, was keeping up with me, too; these same pictures were appearing, real-time, on HIS wireless picture frame, a couple of thousand miles away! Simultaneously, my mother was keeping track of me as she sat in her Lazy-Boy recliner and watched in wonder as my pictures started apearing on her wireless Digital Spectrum MF 8104.
In fact, we all have a Digital Spectrum MF 8104 wireless digital picture frame. It’s fantastic.
We all have FrameChannel accounts, too – my whole family. The combination of FrameChannel and Eye-Fi is so fantastic, it’s almost Harry-Potterish! Your Eye-Fi will send your pictures directly to your photo-sharing site, whereupon your FrameChannel account will immediately access them and your wireless digital frame will start including them in your slideshow!
Why not put a little magic on your wall with the combination of an Eye-Fi card and a wireless digital picture frame? As I type this, pictures of my nephew in Idaho are beginning to appear on my wireless frame. It’s prom night out there, and I got to see him just a few minutes before he left to pick up his date. REAL TIME.
You can buy Eye-Fi cards almost anywhere fine electronics are sold, but why don’t you check them out on Amazon? The shipping is free!
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This is my Digital Spectrum wireless digital picture frame, the MF-8104, my prized possession. On my wireless picture frame, my children grow up before my eyes; people gone from my life are here again, and experiences from long ago are once again new and fresh. Included in the slideshow of my life, too, are things that happened five minutes ago, or yesterday, or last week. We’ve got Eye-Fi cards in our digital cameras, and within just a few minutes of taking a picture, it’s already included in the slideshow, on the wireless picture frame that’s on the back of our piano.
On March 6, Emily posted about the Digital Spectrum upgrade, and I’m here to tell you all that if you haven’t upgraded yet, you really need to do it. It’s easy, and only takes a few minutes of your time. Just download the new firmware, and get your activation code. Then log into your FrameChannel account and enter your new code. Complete instructions are in Emily’s post.
The difference is amazing!
You don’t HAVE to upgrade, but why wouldn’t you? It’s AWESOME!
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!
It’s graduation time, and what better way to share the many excellent pictures of your favorite graduate than to put them on your FrameChannel account so you can see them as part of the slideshow on your wireless digital picture frame? In fact, put your pictures on almost any photo-sharing account, such as Flickr or Picasa, and you can use FrameChannel to handle them.
If the grandparents and other relatives have a wireless picture frame, you can send the pictures directly to it. Grandma at home or in the nursing home can still feel and be a part of the family when she sees her grandchildren in cap and gown.
In fact, if Grandma has a wireless frame, and you use your Eye-fi memory card, she can see the graduation in real time! As you take pictures, they’ll be instantly uploaded into your FrameChannel account or almost any other picture account, and as such will be instantly appearing on the wireless digital picture frame.
Remember, wireless digital picture frames are so awesome, they’re almost like magic.
