Les Jones

Gift Hit of Christmas 2009: the Digital Picture Frame

Thursday, December 24th, 2009 | Holidays, Photos |

We bought an 8 inch digital picture frame for my mother-in-law for Christmas. I programmed it today and loaded a 4 GB SD card with 800 pictures, which used less than half of the space.*

After programming it I set it up in the kitchen to show Melissa. It was so cool we left it running all day while we made dinner, then left it running during the Christmas Eve party, where it was a big hit. Everyone loved it and the pictures looked great.

Now we want one for our house, and I want one for my office, and we’re going to get one for my father-in-law for his office. If you have digital photos you’ll love it and so will your relatives.

Here is CNET’s guide to buying a digital picture frame. We bought this one (a Giinii) on a whim on Black Friday. The 8 inch size is pretty good, though bigger is always better. The Giiniis have power-saving options that can either dim or power off the frame between 11:00 PM and 7:00 AM. If you see a pic you want to show someone just click the far-left button on the frame back to go back to the previous photo. Use the button to the right of that to go forward. To resume the slideshow press the Exit button (second button from the right).

*Loading photos onto the SD card was easy thanks to Google Picasa. I went to Picasa’s Starred Photos folder, selected all, used File|Export Picture to Folder to export everything to the SD card, then edited out pics from the card that I didn’t think would interest the in-laws. We use Picasa’s screensaver feature to play the Starred Photos on our desktop PC and we love it.

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