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They seem simple, they seem easy, they seem innocent enough. But many digital frame owners, who have bought and/or gifted typical “card reader” type frames are finding out that, like that beast of a plant in the Little Shop of Horrors, typical digital frames can become hungry creatures with demanding and hard to manage appetites.

Digital cameras have grown to be a much bigger part of all our lives than traditional film cameras ever were. Because this is so, owning and/or giving a digital frame to display the best pictures of our lives has become quite enticing. However, not knowing what to expect or need in digital frame has resulted in consumers often buying low functioning frames. How user friendly the frame is when it comes to selecting, editing and moving your favored pictures from a camera and into a frame, is rarely considered… especially when a buyer is dazzled with a super low price.

Without a doubt cameras make it so easy and convenient to generate pictures… a digital frame’s “food.” But, until you own a digital frame that regurgitates the same batch of old pictures over and over and over again, will you understand just how “hungry” a frame can get. What makes the hunger pains worse is the fact that you know you have a camera card or hard drive full of fresh pictures waiting to be fed into your digital frame(s).

If you are responsible for feeding pictures to multiple frames then the process becomes even more horrific. All the time and effort it took to feed your first frame must now be duplicated on the second frame. If that second frame has been given as a gift, typically to less tech savvy parents or grandparents, then feeding the second frame can be even more of a nightmare… especially if the frame is located away from your home  or a computer.

So while digital camera technology makes it easy to snap up the moments of our life, and snap we do, getting pictures to the frame(s) so that we can display and share those moments takes time and effort. Having one tool that allows you to easily (1) weed out, (2) edit/personalize (3) organize and (4) move pictures onto one or multiple frames are features and services not typically bundled with digital frames of today.  Except for one… CEIVA.

CEIVA provides their frame owners with one comprehensive tool to feed and care for all their digital frame’s picture display and sharing needs. Our frames, with our award winning Picture Plan, allow you to select, upload, safely store, edit/personalize, and send your treasured pictures directly into the hungry frames you manage and also share your pictures to the hungry frames owned by friends and family… even Grandma’s.

With CEIVA frames you can tame the framed digital beast and never hear the dreaded “Feed me Some-more!”

So until the next post… that’s what CeivaJoe knows!

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Lately I have been doing quite a bit of surfing and I have come to the conclusion that the Internet is one mighty big pond with a lot of croaking about new products going on. Especially when it comes to technical devices/gadgets, the pond is full of “reviewer” frogs.

The big bull frog review sites, that have a lot of influence in the consumer market, are sites like PC Magazine, PC World, Engadget, and CNET. Each, with its own full time staff, will jump on just about every consumer related technology product and croak out an opinion about it.

Then over on another lily pad are smaller, yet highly specialized frogs, that focus their croaks on specific technologies. Particularly, for the digital frame industry, sites like Digital Frame Review, Image Acquire and Digital Frame Guy are some of frogs that croak the loudest.

But not to be out croaked are mainstream media sites like Forbes, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, each have proficient frogs dedicated to new technology reviews.

Finally there are the tadpoles… better known as “Bloggers.” Now don’t think that because they are small they are not heard. Tadpoles, while not professional reviewers, are big influencers as they share their thoughts and opinions about any and all products or services they swim upon.

So while the pond might be loud and full of different croaking frogs, unfortunately many will not get KISSed.

What do I mean by KISSed?

Well, think about it… people who are attracted to write tech reviews are naturally interested in new technology. Their interest, coupled with the fact that tech products/devices/gadgets are constantly being improved, sets them up to expect rapid advancements to be a part of each and every new product they come across.

Now don’t get me wrong there is nothing wrong with product development and product improvement. However, sometimes what makes a device a good consumer product is that fact that the developers knew how to K.I.S.S. it. You know… “Keep It Simple Stupid”. I can’t help but wonder if reviewers, who are technologically superior to the average consumer, want more and expect more than they average consumer.

So my advice to you as you is this… as you read reviews remember, sometimes the real prince of a product may ultimately have been KISSed for the consumer, not the frog.

So until the next post… that’s what CeivaJoe knows!

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