How Do Digital Picture Frames Work

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Do you have at least one technologically challenged relative, well with a Digital Photo Frame you can e-mail photos or post them on a personal Web page for some of our loved ones, but there are others who want nothing to do with a computer, let alone the Internet.

The perfect gadget for sharing photos with the computerless is digital picture frame. This is a device about the size and shape of an ordinary picture frame. It contains an LCD screen, which displays multiple photos in a slideshow format, and it connects to the Internet via phone line to download new pictures and information to display on the screen.

Digital picture frames, the frames are fairly similar in construction, though they do offer some different features.

The frame is actually a very simple computer. It has most of the same components as the computer on your desktop, but they're a lot simpler in the frame because they only have to perform a single task.

The picture frame is designed to enable people with no computer, no digital camera and no computer skills to benefit from some aspects of the digital boom. The idea is that a person who does have a computer, a digital camera and computer skills buys the computerless person a Digital Picture Frame, sets up an account with a server that supports the technology and passes images emails on etc.

Once the account is set up, you (the person with the computer) upload photos to the web each night, the digital picture frame (in the computerless person's house) uses the phone line to connect to the servers and download any new pictures.

The next morning, the new pictures automatically show up in the slideshow rotation. You can also control all of the frame's settings normally via the hosting site. Some of the settings that can be adjusted are the time that the frame turns on and turns off, the slideshow interval (how long between photos) and the dial-up phone numbers (in case the frame moves to a different area code)

Once the frame has been plugged into a phone line and a power outlet, it starts to display the pictures that were originally stored on the frame. If the user presses and holds the button on the back of the frame, it dials up and connects to the Internet.

When it is finished downloading, the frame hangs up the phone line and starts displaying the new photos one after another. It turns itself off at the set time in the evening, and back on at the set time in the morning.

Digital Picture Frames make wonderful gifts for relatives that live a long way away from each other sometimes in other another country.