In my previous blog I provided a laundry list of advantages that come with owning a wireless digital photo frame. If you live in a high tech home your wireless digital photo frame likely acts as an extra monitor in addition to your TV, your computer and your cellphone.
For about $100 to $200 you not only get a place to view your favorite digital photos, but also if you want to see the weather forecast, the scores from last night’s football game or view how your stocks are doing—presto! You simply press a button on your frame and the information is waiting for you.
Nice, right?
Well, wireless is not for everyone.
Take my mom, for example. I would never dream of giving my technologically-challenged mother a wireless digital photo frame and what’s more, she wouldn’t want one. She has enough to deal with just taking the memory card out of a camera and putting it in a traditional digital photo frame.
However, there is a company named Ceiva, which charges $99 a year for services to aid people like my mom. If you have a family member of friend that you want to share pictures with, but they find it difficult (or just plain frustrating) to finagle with memory cards, remote controls or touch screens, Ceiva can help.
The company’s subscription service includes delivery of weather, news and sports on the frame (if the customer wants that information) or it simply sends pictures from family members and friends. And you don’t even need to have a computer to receive them. As long as you have a telephone line and an electrical outlet you can receive pictures via the Ceiva service.
For example, if I signed up my mom for the service I would pay a flat fee and I could send photos of my daughter from my computer (my brothers, her sisters, or anyone else in our family could do so as well) and Ceiva would take care of the rest via the one subscription for her particular frame. That means my mom never has to touch her frame. She simply plugs it into the wall and uses the splitter Ceiva supplies to hook it up to her phone jack, and then once a day the frame automatically dials up my phone line (and my brothers’) and adds the new photos to my mom’s frame.
Not bad.
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