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A spokesperson for the company told us that while an economic turnaround could revive production, 'as of now, the company is in the process of winding operations down.' Thanks for visiting the blog and leaving your comment.Sales of digital picture frames have been amazing over the past few years, But citing the tough economic times, Smartparts is bowing out of the market for digital picture frames. That can trigger an executable especially if you’re in a hurry. You might pop them into your computer because you’re curious as to what’s on it and just double clicking it. I think I would be more concerned about thumb drives or flash drives that you “find”. It’s definitely a good mindset, being vigilant when connecting devices to your PC. I also have a firewall application called Little Snitch which always tells me whenever some application wants to connect to the internet to call home. I’m basically “writing” to the onboard RAM built into the picture frame and not reading from it.

#SMARTPARTS DIGITAL PHOTOFRAME INSTALL#

The digital picture frame came with some software but it only works with Windows so I didn’t install anything. If anything wants to install, it would always require authentication.

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I don’t run my Mac in the Administrator account. Even though I’m on a Mac, I know I’m not immune to such threats. I still like seeing a picture of mine printed, matted and framed but if this is the only way to see the â€œothers,â€ then this a good compromise. I suppose they’re cheap enough that you can buy one. The front of the frame is wood with a decent finish. It would be a major disappointment if that weren’t the case since this is a tech device. The picture quality is a lot better than the earlier ones. On the box, there’s a sticker that says it’s Smart & Energy Efficient and has a Built-in Light Sensor but the documentation doesn’t explain what that light sensor does. This picture frame doesn’t run on batteries, so it has to be plugged into your electrical outlet. The power connector, a 2-prong variety, doesn’t hog up the entire power outlet. It was easy enough to connect it to my Mac and just drag images from my iPhoto library or any folder on my computer to the digital picture frame’s internal storage folders. If you run out of storage space, you can always stick any one of the above flash memory based storage devices and you’ll be off and running again.Īs expected the Smartparts Digital Picture frame is Windows-centric. The display is actually quite nice and bright. The picture on display of the butterfly settling on a banana flower I took while in Malaysia during my 2007 trip home. There are slots for the countless memory cards that are out there: Your picture won’t look better and you’ll lose storage space. It’s probably true because each image only needs to have enough resolution to display on the 8.4″ LCD. The box says you can store 4,000 pictures, but they don’t give the specs of the size of each picture. If you load it with WMA audio, AVI videos and JPEG pictures expect not to be able to hold as much. The fancier ones are Wi-Fi enabled so that you can connect to it via your local Wi-Fi network. Recently I coughed up $80 at Costco to get one of these.Īs far as features are concerned, this one seems to have what I need. I have a 10-year-old Powerbook which is sitting in a closet taking up space. I even toyed with making my own digital picture frame. I have thousands of digital pictures scattered across my numerous hard drives. This device allows me a way to see the pictures even if they’re just for a few seconds.įor a while now I’ve been eyeing one of these wondering if I should get one. Green or waste?–I bought a Smartparts Digital Picture frameīecause I had so many images on my hard drive which I can’t possibly print out.

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