Digital photo frame usage
I spent part of New Year’s Day morning going through all of my 2012 photos to add them to the digital photo frame we keep in our kitchen. I was just doing the task yesterday because I had the day off from work, but it actually turned out to be a wonderful reflection on 2012! I had so many photos of good memories with Steven, friends and family. And now, for a photo recap of each month… JUST KIDDING!!! Ha ha ha.
Anyway, we have three digital photo frames in the house* – one in the kitchen, living room and office. The one in the kitchen had a bunch of random photos on it which is why I updated it. The living room one has wedding photos, and the one in the office has photos from my family’s trip to see me in Italy in 2006.
I was bad about updating the frame in the kitchen, so I’ve put a reminder in my calendar to add new photos to it at the end of each month. I think it will be a good way to reflect on the month.
But enough blah blahing**. I wanted to ask you about digital photo frame usage. I’ve noticed people don’t really use them like we do. We either put ours on a timer or leave them on all the time – but we rarely see them on at other people’s homes.
Do you have digitial photo frames? How often do you have them on? How often do you add more photos?
*And even one that we recevied and never put photos on – eek!
**Even though that is ALL this blog is.
Themocracy
I bought one for my mom a few years ago, but she never turns it on anymore. I’ve never actually bought one for myself…
You should get yours back from your mom. We took one back from a family member 😉
Max got me one of these for xmas like 4 years ago and I think I’ve used it once..I actually cleaned out our bedroom book shelf this weekend and found it stuffed away behind a bunch of books. I put it back there after I dusted…
I just received one for Xmas this year, so I am not sure how I am going to use it. i think I want to put it in my kitchen too, because that is where I think I would see it most. I like the idea of updating the pics in it from time to time.
Let me know how you end up using it!
I got a digital frame for Christmas a few years ago. I was like, “Oh, cool!” and I put lots of pictures on it. And then I stuck it in the cabinet and haven’t used it since. I pulled it out was and was going to update the pictures on it and use it, but I have forgotten how to put pictures on it and I can’t find the manual. :\
I had to look up the manual for this one online. But it actually ended up being simple, once I plugged the usb stick full of pics in it.
Don’t tease me – I love recap posts! Especially with photos!!!
I was in possession of a digital frame once … don’t know what happened to it. I found it a bit cumbersome to use. Maybe when we move out and have our own place to decorate we’ll get one. I do take a lot of photos. Especially now that I have a nice camera again.
Hmm.. I’ve never seen them in other peoples houses. I’m not sure if I would ever put one up.. sorta like having a tv on with pictures on it? lol
It would be even cooler if our TV did it. Maybe the Apple TV does that somehow… hmm…
Pretty sure you can add pics to a folder somewhere on a computer that the Apple tv can access and use as the screensaver: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4362
I don’t have one, but I would use one if I did! 🙂 I am too lazy to print out photos, so I would prefer if I could take pics and load them electronically into a frame!!
I sent you a pic of our extra one! Let me know if you want it 🙂
I don’t have one so I’ve never thought of how I’d use one. I’m bad enough at putting up real photos… I think I’d be bad about loading/updating a digital one as well.
My old roomie got one for Christmas one year and I know she used it once at a party we had. She loaded pictures from the previous years’ parties.
I had one, but my memory card died and I never got around to getting a new one. I’ve heard about the ones you can email photos to. It’d be cool if my parents had one and we could send them new photos of G. 🙂
I’d like to try one of those. We think it would be great if you could put the pics on a server and point the frame to that, as well. It would be easier to just drop the images in.
We got a digital frame for a gift a couple years ago, and did start using it after moving into the condo. I take a ton of pictures, so I like having them displayed without having to print and frame everything, but I admit I haven’t updated it with new pictures in at least a year. It’s on all the time though, so I constantly get to relive 2008 through mid-2011 or so 🙂
I liked that this old one had older pics on it from vacations and other events! But I didn’t know how to get them off and didn’t want to find them all again. Sigh. So it will be 2012-present. 🙂
I have a super sweet silver digital picture frame my brother in law got us for our wedding. I also need to update it with some fresh photos.
I don’t think we have any, though I’m sure we’ve bought them as gifts.
No digital picture frames, here. Although, I think my mom has one in her office at work but I don’t know how often she updates it (if at all). And once Jason’s family bought his grandparents one and Jason and I put a bunch of pictures from their Italian cruise on it. Pretty sure that one has never been updated!
I am so old school. All my photos are in a shoe box! Matt and i want to get a few frames this year though 🙂
My family never received a digital frame before but they look cool. Im sort of old fashioned and I like my pictures in frames 🙂
We got one as a wedding gift, but haven’t opened it up yet. I guess a 2012 recap wouldn’t be too bad…
I love the idea of digital photo frames but have never actually considered buying them for some reason! They do seem like a great way to pack a lot of photos into one small space instead of a picture frame explosion somewhere on a table/desk/drawer.