These “times of our lives” sure can be full, hectic, complex… and fleeting. Never before has there been so much to do, see and encounter. Technology and innovation has made it possible for us to experience so much of what the world has. So thankfully, in the craziness of being ever on the go, filling our lives with doing-doing-doing, one of the things we do is take pictures.
Technology has definitely made picture taking more popular and accessible. Gone are the days when one had to worry about, adjusting the aperture, running out of film, or the cost of developing prints. Today we can easily snap a picture of everything we do and just delete what we don’t like… and it doesn’t cost a penny.
But besides the facts that photos are easier to take and we are taking more than ever before, has anything else really changed with our pictures? Not really. The multitude of digital images we store in our computers are as precious to us as the old prints we store in shoe-boxes under our beds.
Photographs, unlike any other medium, are precious because they instantly connect us to the people, places and events of our lives. Whether one quickly glances upon a single framed photo on a shelf or sits down to go through an entire album, pictures have the power to pull us in and in an instant take our hearts to another emotional somewhere. This emotional tug, be it to happiness or sadness, that a picture has, is real and it is powerful.
And… the “tug” never stops. As time passes a photo’s emotional pull my change, flipping from happiness to sadness and vice versa, but it never ends. In fact if anything it gets stronger. For the older a picture gets the more it seems to pull at our hearts and reminds us that life truly is fleeting. When looking at an old photo, the hectic, crazy complexities of life, at the time the photo was taken, disappear. All that remains is the connection back, tugging on our hearts.
Until my next post… that’s what CeivaJoe knows.
Let’s face it; it’s that time of year when one can go a little crazy trying to find that ONE special gift for a special person that is just… well, just perfect. While most of us, at some point in our lives, have been on the receiving end of what we know was the perfect gift, many of us still fail to deliver on what we thought would be a perfect gift.
Last week technology product review sites and blogs were all a-buzz about Hewlett Packard’s latest product release… the HP DreamScreen. Because so much was being said I found myself enticed to read more and more. But the more I read the more I noticed a pattern develop. I noticed that many “industry experts” were confused and unsure as to what the DreamScreen is or is not supposed to be.
The digital picture frame designers at CEIVA have tapped into the fact that more and more photos are being stored on home computers. The new CEIVA Pro80 frame has been designed for 
Two evenings ago, the New York Times posted an article in their “Gadgetwise” column entitled: 
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 
I came across this story while reading through a HUGE stack of testimonials this week. I have to confess each time I read it… I am moved. This heartfelt account reminded me that while some people might think what CEIVA makes is just another electronic contraption; in reality what we provide is so much bigger, deeper, rich and meaningful. That’s why I thought I would share Karen’s story with you for Memorial Day, a time for remembering those in our past.