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Digital frames: Photos freed from confines of computer
The Town Talk - 6 hours agoMaurica MacDonald, an Aurora, Ont.-based marketing manager, says she enjoys seeing her kids playing while she's at work. No, she doesn't have a home office. Instead, the 44-year-old mother of two has a digital photo frame on her desk that cycles through her family photos.
"It's the first thing I turn on when I get to work," says MacDonald, who owns a 20-centimetre Kodak EasyShare Digital Picture Frame.
"Honest to goodness, I love looking at this thing all day. All those memories -- the kids tubing in the summer, my daughter's dance recital, a Christmas party with friends, and the kids just being silly," she adds.
Along with the "hundred or so" photos loaded onto the digital frame, MacDonald says she enjoys playing music and videos on it, too. "I'll stop what I'm doing sometimes because I'll hear my mom talking until I realize it's a clip from their 50th wedding anniversary ... It brings you right back to that moment."
Many Canadians have freed their photos from the confines of their computer's hard drive, which has become a digital shoebox, if you will, and placed these memories in a high-tech frame that can show (and show off) a new photo on its bright and colourful LCD screen every few seconds, minutes or days.
Getting photos onto the photo frame is a fairly simple process.
Most digital frames have some internal memory. You connect it to a Windows PC or Mac's USB port (cable is usually provided) and drag and drop the selected photos onto the frame. Then you unplug and place the frame on a table or mount it to the wall. While older models are sometimes battery-powered, most require a nearby electrical outlet. Generally, the digital frame's USB port can also be used with thumb drives packed with photos or tethered to a digital camera.
Many digital frames also have a memory card slot that will take most popular photo card types, such as SecureDigital (SD), Compact Flash (CF), MultiMedia Card (MMC), Memory Stick Pro Duo (MS), xD, and others. You pop the memory card out of your digital camera and place it into the frame to begin the slideshow. Some let you copy from the card to the internal memory, while others play right off the card.
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All you love about candles without the flame
PR Newswire - Jan 13When flameless candles hit the market years ago, they were pretty basic: a plastic base with a bulb in the shape of a flame on top, and a cord that had to be plugged in to turn the candle on.
But these days, flameless candles more closely mimic the original: wax coating, a hidden LED bulb that flickers like a flame, fragrances, more colors and shapes.
In some cases they go a step further.
"We actually have candles where you can select from up to five musical tunes," says Donna Baker Schwenk, who works with Candle Impressions. "We are doing beautiful graphics. We make them with drips. What is really new is not having that exposed bulb. Now it looks like a candle during daylight."
Candles started an estimated 15,600 home fires in 2005, according to the National Fire Protection Association, killing 150 people, wounding 1,270 and causing $539 million in damage. One of the NFPA's safety tips for candles is to consider using battery-operated flameless ones.
"They are a safer alternative to a traditional candle because they don't have the open flame," says Lorraine Carli, spokeswoman for the NFPA.
People often purchase flameless candles for that reason, says Schwenk, a candle industry consultant. The candles are powered by batteries; the light comes from an LED bulb that is controlled with an on/off switch,or can shut off automatically. And because LED bulbs don't get that hot, the wax does not melt.
"There's no fire, no soot, there's no flame at all," says Sam Marcos. "You end up with something that looks and feels like a candle."
Source:Belleville News-Democrat
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