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!

Graduation Is A Time to Add Pictures to your Wireless Digital Picture Frame!

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.

A Wireless Digital Picture Frame Is Better Than A Postcard!

I’m on a little vacation, and my husband is still working.  I could be sending him post cards, of course; they’re only a quarter apiece and they have beautiful scenery on them.

But why send someone else’s picture when I can send him the pictures I take, myself!  I’m taking pictures like mad, and adding them to my FrameChannel account the minute I get back to the house, so my husband sees exactly where I’ve been and what I’ve seen, and many of the pictures have my brother, sister-in-law, nephews, and ME in them, to make them far more personal than a purchased post card with a picture taken by a stranger.

When he gets home from teaching calculus to high school students all day, he can sit back in his comfy chair and see, sometimes just a few minutes after it really happened, exactly what I’m doing!

Next time, I’m borrowing his Eye-fi card!

Sony Introduces Three Beautiful Digital Photo Frames

Sony is a brand name that connotes quality, and when a quality name like Sony decides to introduce a digital picture frame line, we know that those digital frames, too, connote quality.

These three beauties from Sony have 800 x 480 displays, and can scale photos down from up to 48 MB. This means you could transfer even large pictures directly from your camera’s memory card without manually sizing them with your computer. The frames also correct any red-eye problems automatically, and it also means the new Sony frames are able to handle photos taken with the most advance and sophisticated digital cameras..

Sony’s S-Frame brand of digital picture frames are plain, black, and elegant: typical Sony trademarks. The bright, clear LCD screens, coupled with the elegance of the frames, make the Sony frames not merely suitable, but PERFECT, for any room in your house.

Two of the frames - the DPF-V900 and DPF-V700 also have Bluetooth compatibility! You’ll need a Bluetooth adapter - sold separately - but with the adapter, these two frames can import pictures wirelessly from any Bluetooth device, such as a cell phone.

Ted Okada, senior vice president of digital imaging for Sony Electronics, says that “Digital photo frames are a natural addition to our line of digital imaging products. Our new S-Frame brand of digital photo frames takes inspiration from the style and features of our Cyber-shot cameras and BRAVIA LCD televisions. They give consumers a beautiful and technicaly advanced way to showcase their memories.”

You can even program these beautiful new Sony frames to turn on or off whenever you want, which makes them energy efficient, ie GREEN.

All of the many, many functions can be done via the wireless remote.

Your pictures can be loaded onto any of the three Sony frames with your camera’s memory card (with an Eye-Fi memory card, your pictures will be transmitted automatically!) or almost any flash/thumb drive. You can also transfer your pictures from your computer to your digital frame with the included USB cable.

The DPF-V900 will cost approximately $250.00, the DPF-V700 will cost about $190.00, and the DPF-D70 will be around $140.00. All three will be available in March 2008.