Review: GiiNii Artforme 7 inch Digital Picture Frame
Written on Jan 18, 2010 by Malcolm Reynolds and filed under Featured, GiiNii, Reviews
One of the side effects to reviewing many different digital picture frames is that I start to expect more and more from a typical picture frame. The latest digital media frames handle photos, video, music, and stream content via Wi-Fi. That’s why I was amazed to see the affordable GiiNii ArtForme Digital Picture Frame (model GN-705W) keeps things surprisingly simple. This picture frame is just a picture frame … nothing more and nothing less.
Windows FrameIt Now Supports Mesh
Written on Jan 15, 2009 by Brian and filed under FrameIt, News
Windows FrameIt has announced that they now support Mesh. If you’re not familiar, Mesh is beta service from Microsoft that essentially lets you keep data synced easily over multiple devices. With digital picture frames this now means you can load an image to a hard drive and have it show up within a few minutes on your Internet-connected frame.
Microsoft FrameIt Adds Traffic Data to Digital Picture Frames
Written on Nov 15, 2008 by Brian and filed under FrameIt, News
Microsoft Windows Live FrameIt has launched a real-time traffic channel with data from NAVTEQ. FrameIt users can now select streaming real-time traffic maps to be delivered to their Internet-enabled digital picture frames.
Aequitas Technologies iGala Wireless Digital Picture Frame Released
Written on Nov 13, 2008 by Brian and filed under Aequitas Technologies, FrameIt, News
Aequitas Technologies has released the iGala Wireless Digital Picture Frame, which features an 8″ 800×600 touchscreen display, 1GB of internal memory, Wi-Fi and connections with Gmail, Microsoft Windows Live FrameIt and Flickr.
Samsung Announces the SPF-85H, SPF-85V, SPF-105P and SPF-105V
Written on Aug 28, 2008 by Brian and filed under FrameChannel, FrameIt, News, Samsung
Samsung has refreshed their line of digital picture frames, with two 8″ models (SPF-85H, SPF-85V) and two 10.2″ models (SPF-105P, SPF-105V). One of each size comes with wireless, and they each offer a somewhat unique feature set, including things like auto shutoff, high resolution displays and a function to serve as a secondary computer monitor.
Windows Live FrameIt Digital Frame Content Service Released in Beta
Written on Aug 7, 2008 by Brian and filed under FrameChannel, FrameIt
Microsoft has recently released a free content service for digital picture frames called FrameIt. FrameIt takes a clear shot at the more established FrameChannel service, which is embedded with many Internet-enabled frames, like the D-Link DSM-210 that we just reviewed.