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Digital Photo Frame: How About at Your Tailgate?

Tyrod Taylor 150x150 Digital Photo Frame:  How About at Your Tailgate?

I'm a huge college football fan, and I attend games almost every weekend.  In fact, I tailgate with the same group of friends each week at the same spot at the same school.  So how pleasantly surprised was I to find a new tradition brought by someone in the group:  bring a digital photo frame each Saturday with pictures from the previous week!

Our tailgate time is treasured, its a time for food, drinks, friends, and football.  Usually the weather is beautiful and it makes me and my friends look forward to fall each year.  We end up taking a lot of digital pictures and in the past they've been shared via email, or someone's Flickr or Picassa account.

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Digital Picture Frames Continue to Gain Popularity

smartparts_sp72Digital picture frames seem to be deepening their grip on our lives in many ways.  Its not wonder they are one of the hottest new consumer electronic products, which allow digital pictures to be displayed in their true form - digitally.  This means you can get rid of traditional frames and display your digital pictures on similar size frames.

Since the digital picture frames are small and light, and leverage LCD technology, the images are clear and crisp and can display minute details that are easily visible.  What many people find are the best feature of digital picture frames is that they allow you to store hundreds of photos in one frame, thus eliminating all the other picture frames in your house.  But the main reason digital picture frames are so popular is that you can enjoy your digital photos without printing them. (more...)

Top Uses for Digital Picture Frames in Business

spmw15 Top Uses for Digital Picture Frames in BusinessDigital Picture Frames are a fast growing consumer electronic category! There’s no doubting the transition going on from traditional frames to digital photo frames. Quality of digital frames is improving and prices are coming down.

But have you noticed how digital picture frames are used in businesses? Much as flat-screen TVs are now heavily used by corporations, restaurants, hotels, and retailers, digital picture frames are as well. Here are some of the ways we’ve noticed business putting them to use. There are likely many others.

1. Reception desk welcome displays
2. Breakroom announcement portal
3. Restaurant “Specials of the Day” displays
4. Retail advertising portals
5. Conference room scheduling displays
6. Restaurant on-table menus, advertising, specials, etc., displays
7. As corporate gifts for customers or employees
8. Hotel announcements, meeting information, or concierge use
9. Airport and other transportation information portals
10. Photography, frameshop, and art gallery advertising displays

Have you noticed digital frames being used in business in other ways? Share your thoughts!

Picture Editing Software from ACD Systems Designed Specifically for Digital Picture Frame

acdsee logo1 Picture Editing Software from ACD Systems Designed Specifically for Digital Picture FrameDo you have issues or frustrations getting your digital pictures to display correctly on your digital picture frames? Or is the process of setting image resolution, format, and size a tedious one for those pictures you want to transfer to your digital frame? Well new picture editing software from ACD Systems has recently been release that is designed specifically to deal with these issues.

Most of our customers using our Smartparts, Portable USA, or Kodak digital picture frames have not reported any issues with the way their digital pictures display on their frames. But we've heard that as the number of digital photo frame manufacturers increases, and along with it the various resolutions, sizes, and supported formats, its not guaranteed that simply transferring photos from camera to computer to digital frame will mean it displays properly.
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Litigation Around Wireless Digital Frame Services Sorting Out

framechannel logo1 Litigation Around Wireless Digital Frame Services Sorting OutAs we've written many times on this blog, the future of digital picture frames is in wirelss technology. What makes digital frames so innovative is that you can constantly display fresh pictures, something impossible on a traditional frame, and wireless technology makes this even more possible. Wireless digital frames are also evolving into more than just picture frames, many now stream other types of media like news, weather, and anything else that can be sent via an RSS feed.

Ceiva was an early experimenter in providing a network sharing service with their digital frames, allowing a remote family member to send pictures to a digital frame. Recently, a company called Frame Media has developed a similar free service called "framechannel" that digital picture frames like Kodak can use to feed content to a frame using wireless technology. Last year Ceiva sued Frame Media for patent infringement claiming Frame Media had infringed on Ceiva's patent for distributing picture mail.

This week, Frame Media seemed to get some good neews in its favor.
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Mac Users are Digital Frame Lovers Too

maclife logo1 Mac Users are Digital Frame Lovers TooMany people have asked me if Apple makes or plans to release digital picture frames. The answer (to my knowledge) is that they don't, though often times consumer electronics get outsourced by one company to another and released under another brand. But it looks as though Apple has stayed out of the digital frame market so far.

However that doesn't mean that Apple Mac users can't take advantage of great digital frames from other manufacturers. A Mac generally stores and manages pictures in the same formats as PCs, and can support the same memory devices that transfer photos to digital frames. Plus, if you are a Mac user or have used a Mac, you know that it has superior media editing applications as part of its iLife suite. Photo editing, slideshow creation, adding of music to slideshows, and many other multi-media creations are a breeze with a Mac.
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Digital Photo Frame for Dad: One More Week Until Father's Day

Portable_USA_pu-12wb_digital_frameA few weeks ago we blogged about all the reasons to consider a digital frame for Mom on Mother's Day, so with Father's Day around the corner, its appropriate we do the same for Dads. Fathers probably get stuck with more useless gifts than Mom's anyway, so fight that urge to buy him cologne or another neck tie and get him a cool new gadget he can use. Many of the reasons for buying Mom a digital picture frame are true for Dad, but Father's likely have some reasons of their own.

This post also recommends some specific digital frames that will make Dad happy on Father's Day.
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Digital Frames as Mother’s Day Gifts!

New types of consumer electronics often begin as popular gifts before they become big hits with buyers. Cool new gadgets can make great gifts for family and friends before they are 'discovered' by the masses. When it comes to digital photo frames, smartparts_sp700bthis trend is no different and there are a variety of market studies and research statistics as to how many digital photo frames have been purchased as gifts versus for personal use.

Why are digital picture frames such great gifts? One reason is because they are easy to personalize! In fact, they are all about personalization in that they are meant to hold your personal content in the form of digital pictures, and in some cases video and music. So buying a digital frame as a gift is a great opportunity to not just buy someone a cool gadget, but if you load it up with a bunch of pictures they can relate to, then its also a personalized gift with memories, scenes, or images that you both share in common.

With Mother's Day approaching, those seeking something new and hip for Mom might consider a digital LCD frame.

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New Digital Photo Frame Survey Reveals Consumer Preferences

instat New Digital Photo Frame Survey Reveals Consumer PreferencesWe came across an interesting new press release concerning digital photo frames from an market research firm named In-Stat, which has some interesting information regarding consumer preferences. The study by In-Stat, which surveyed over 1500 responds, highlights key preferences from consumer, some of who do and some who don't currently own digital frames. These preferences specifically included video capability, wi-fi, and internet connectivity for digital picture frames.
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Top Ten Reasons to Buy a Digital Photo Frame

Portable_USA_pu-10wb1_digital_picture_frameMore people each day are discovering the benefits a digital photo frame and are changing the way they display pictures in their lives. The popularity of this new technology is continuing to rise and the number of digital frame models is exploding for large and niche manufacturers. An article recently posted at TechRadar.com cites that one in ten homes in the UK own a digital frame and the numbers are likely similar in the US.

So why own a digital photo frame? Well, here are the top ten reasons we came up with here at the DSF.com BLOG:
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