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.

PhotoVu Announces Fantastic Wireless Digital Picture Frame Giveaway!

PhotoVu is having a fantastic giveaway, and just in time for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and graduation!

“Celebrating over five years of leadership in the digital picture frame market, we have decided to conduct our first-ever digital picture frame giveaway,” said Robert Jordan, partner, PhotoVu. “This is a great opportunity to come visit our website and register for the giveaway, while at the same time finding out why PhotoVu makes the ultimate one-of-a-kind gift for a loved one.”

The giveaway started Thursday, March 27, and PhotoVu will give away one premium wireless digital picture frame a month until the end of May, 2008. This is a FABULOUS prize, and if I were any of you, I’d get myself over to the PhotoVu Digital Picture Frames website and click on the “Moms, Dads & Grads” link IMMEDIATELY.

PhotoVu wireless digital picture frames are FrameChannel-compatible, which makes them one of the BEST in the industry! If you win one of these wireless picture frames, you’ll be able to send pictures directly to your FrameChannel account from any computer or cell phone, anywhere, and once the picture is in your FrameChannel account, your picture will be almost instantly included in your slideshow. It’s awesome. It’s magic. PhotoVu wireless digital picture frames are also compatible with most photo sharing portals, such as Flickr and Picasa, etc.

It’s possible for you to get one for free!

Sign up for the PhotoVu Mom’s, Dad’s, and Grad’s Digital Picture Frame Giveaway before you do another thing.

To read the entire Press Release about the PhotoVu giveaway, click right here.

Kodak, Polaroid, Phillips, Westinghouse, Ceiva, Mustek, PanDigital, Smartparts. . . The Evolution of the Picture Frame

Over on Media Post, Adrienne W. Fawcett has an article about how digital technology has not only revolutionized the way people take pictures, but has also revolutionized the way people are viewing those pictures. Hence: the evolution of the humble picture frame.

“This spring, digital picture frames took off like nobody’s business,” says Liz Cutting, senior imaging analyst at the NPD Group. According to NPD’s Retail Tracking Service, digital picture frames grossed nearly $12 million, selling more than 112,000 units, during the week before Mother’s Day.

The May week’s sales were just as strong as Christmas, and beat the week of Black Friday. The trend is expected to spike again during June’s holiday troika of graduation, confirmation, and Father’s Day. . . .”

“Price, novelty and availability are driving the category. Last year, according to NPD, 54% of the digital picture frames sold were 5.6 inches in size, with an average price of $148.00. From January through April of this year, 54% of the digital picture frames sold were seven inches and went for an average of $102.00. The average selling price of a seven-inch frame dropped from $139.00 last Mother’s Day to $81.00 this year.

The novelty factor is helping to drive the trend this spring. Digital picture frames include an LCD screen with multi-media capabilities; it’s like having a mini-Power Point presentation on the living room mantel. Consumers can program the frames or simply pop the memory card from their digital camera into a slot.”

(If you have a wireless frame, your possibilities are even greater!)

Read the rest of Adrienne W. Fawcett’s post right HERE.

CEIVA Digital Photo Frames Now Available at Staples, Nationwide!

This press release from CEIVA has exciting news for digital photo frame fans!

“CEIVA, the award-winning supplier of digital picture frames, today announced that its recently released CEIVA Digital Photo Framesâ„¢ will now be available for purchase at 1,400 Staples locations throughout the US, marking the company‘s first office superstore rollout.

With in-store product availability planned to coincide with the Father‘s Day and Graduation shopping season, US consumers visiting their local Staples retail store will be able to purchase a CEIVA Digital Photo Frame for the first time ever in an office superstore location. The CEIVA 7-inch Digital Photo Frameâ„¢ will be the first CEIVA frame introduced at Staples, followed by the CEIVA 8-inch Digital Photo Frameâ„¢ which will be part of a featured display in Staples stores for the June Father‘s Day sales campaign.

“We are thrilled to have our CEIVA Digital Photo Frames available to millions of consumers who regularly shop at Staples superstores,” said David Simon, Vice President of Business Development, at CEIVA. “Our product rollout with Staples showcases our commitment to making CEIVA Digital Photo Frames more widely available and to making it easier than ever for consumers to become part of the CEIVA digital photo experience.”

CEIVA Digital Photo Frames are the world‘s only fully connected digital picture frames, allowing users to instantly display digital photos from a built in memory card reader and from their PC over a home network. Using CEIVA‘s optional PicturePlan® service new digital photos can be sent from anywhere in the world and automatically delivered to any CEIVA frame. The CEIVA frames can connect to PicturePlan service over any ordinary phone line, broadband connection or wireless home network.

US shoppers will be able to go HERE and use the site‘s dealer locator to find the nearest Staples office superstore location to purchase CEIVA Digital Photo Frames.”

I know that I am far more inclined to purchase a new product if I can find it at a store I frequent. This move by CEIVA is a good one; I drive by our Staples store almost daily.