Honey, Can You Troubleshoot the Computer?
“Son, there’s something wrong with the computer. Can you troubleshoot and figure out what’s wrong?”
“Troubleshoot? Sure, Mom, no problem.”
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A Neat Gift: GiiNii Digital Picture Frame
A picture of Christie Lake appears on the GiiNii Digital Picture Frame
Yes, that’s right, I’m gazing at my brand new toy, a seven-inch digital picture frame that holds up to 568 photos (at 2 megapixels each) thanks to 512 MB of memory. The frame has a wedge design with a matte-silver finish and it sits right on top of my desk.  I can plug in this baby to my hard drive and download my photos directly to the frame or play my photos directly from a memory card.
Every now and then, I’m asked to review a book or a product. For many years, I wrote at Epinions and recently at Viewpoints, so I do enjoy product reviews. Whenever I’m excited about a product, I like to share it with my readers. The GiiNii Digital Picture Frame
The frame is simple enough at first– simply plug it in, turn it on and you’ll immediately see three pre-loaded pictures rotate. There are four buttons on the side that control the different features. The digital frame can play pictures, music and videos. It also has a clock and alarm built in.Â
As soon as I opened the User Guide, however, I knew I was in for some trouble. The guide has pictures but it isn’t very user friendly. For example, one of the pictures shows a power button, but the button is referred to as the “G” button in the rest of the guide. I have found that the best way to navigate through the features is by actually playing with the buttons and following the selection prompts on the screen. The GiiNii website has videos that explain the features, but the video is not captioned. I emailed the company to see if they could provide captions for the instructional videos and I’m waiting to hear back from them.Â
The resolution is a crisp 800 x 480 and the memory reader supports SD, MMC, MMC+, MS and XD. The slide shows can be shown in the order that the pictures are loaded or randomly and the transitions between each slide can be customized. The GiiNii frame has speakers for MP3, WAV, WMA, AVI, or MOV playback.Â
Needless to say, I really like this digital frame. When the snow starts falling in Chicago and the temperature plummets, I’m simply going to close my window blinds and watch my digital pictures transform me to warm places.
If you want to do the same, the GiiNii frame can be found on Amazon
Or check out the sales here:
Wordless Wednesday–Beautiful Columbine
I listened to the music of the night wind in the pines.
I’ve seen the quiet splendor of a field of columbine.
I skied on crystal pathways to a mountain peak so tall,
and I walked the mighty summits with the one who made it all.
From The Mountain Song, John Denver
This photo was taken in Breckenridge, Colorado this summer.
See more photos at:Â Wordless Wednesday.
Wordless Wednesday–Leap!
Don't be afraid--leap!
This is a shot of my cousin’s kiddo jumping out of the pontoon on Christie Lake. See more at Wordless Wednesday.
Wordless Wednesday–Dreaming of Summer
Wordless Wednesday–Two Hours in a Beauty Salon
My Mother-in-law gave me a gift certificate to her salon because a few scraggly gray hairs popped up over the summer. The kids noticed.
“Mom, you’ve got GRAY hairs!” they announced on one beautiful sunny day. You’ll note that they added an “s” to that sentence.
I’m no longer a dye virgin. Today, I spent two hours at the Lush salon. I had no idea a shampoo could feel so good. The last time I was shampoo’d by someone was on my wedding day (and no, it wasn’t the hubby).
Happy Wordless Wednesday!
A Very Rare Photo– Wash Hung Up to Dry
Look closely. Yup, your eyes are not deceiving you. Yes, there’s snow on the ground. Someone hung the wash outside on a beautiful, sunny, wintery day.
My mom and my sister are down in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri visiting some relatives. Yup, those are the people that hung up that wash. Relatives of ours.
I grew up helping my mom hang out the wash several times a week. We had a working dryer in the basement, yet my mom chose to hang up the wash on sunny days. She had a system: sheets were hung on the outside lines, our unmentionables were hidden on the inside lines. I used to grumble about having to go outside, gather up the dry clothes and help her fold them. Little did I realize that I was getting my daily dose of Vitamin D and fresh air, a combination that does a body good.
When the Kids Grab the Camera…
I was going through the photo files this morning in an effort to weed out some bad photos and back everything up with a new external hard drive we recently purchased. After wading through a couple of thousand photographs, I discovered that the kids had grabbed the camera and played around with it.
It’s a little late for Halloween, but they came up with some good ones:
