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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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Mintpass: Digital Photo Frame Integrated with Digital Camera

mintpass Mintpass:  Digital Photo Frame Integrated with Digital CameraSeveral digital frame news outlets and review sites have been intrigued by what is not even a product, but only a concept for a product by Mintpass.  This site contains products that dream for "a better world", and their idea for a better digital frame includes one that integrates a digital camera.  The idea being that this skips the whole concept of taking pictures on a digital camera and having to worry about the transfer process from camera to frame.

We have to admit, this idea for a digital photo frame actually makes some sense.

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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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