Do you have a digital camera? What kind of memory card does it use?

Decide which format memory you want and go buy a usb card reader to match for your pc that also fits your picture frame - and hopefully matches your digital camera too.

Since the frame has a USB connection as well, you could use a flash drive. Download your pictures to it and plug into the frame. Might be a bit unsightly, however to have it sticking out wherever. I'd put them on a camera memory card and insert that. If your PC has built in reader, it wouldn't be necessary to buy a card reader. You could just copy the pictures onto the memory card and insert it in the proper slot on the frame for viewing.

Daughter gave me a Picture Frame thing last Christmas. Pretty neat. Since I have several of the USB memory sticks, I use them. Its simple and easily changed.

Bob

Curious .. Does the usb connection load it into the picFrame's built in memory?

or do ya need to leave the usb drive plugged in and hanging there ??

Mikie,

The stick stays plugged in.

Bob

You could get a card reader/writer. It plugs into a usb port on your computer and you can save your photos to the card, then put the card in the frame.

If the picture frame has a USB slot, can't you just put a card in the picture frame, run a USB cable between the picture frame and your computer, and use Windows Explorer to copy the jpgs from the hard drive to the card?

I've been curious about these picture frames. Can you do anything besides display jpgs in them? Show an html page or something, for example? Can you display thumbnails and pick out the picture you want to see or do you have to always page through the pictures in order? What else, if anything, do they do?

WW

We recently received the same frame as a wedding gift but the instructions (or lack there of) don't tell you how to 'select' a particular photo from the memory card to use in the slide show. Can anyone with this same frame help? Thank you!

Eek! Just bought this for my inlaws for Christmas, and it came WITHOUT instructions. We wanted to load it up for them. Does anyone have the instruction sheet for this K101 they could scan and email to me at barbireuter@q.com? Very disappointing not to be able to find a product manufacturer online....

My mother just got one of these for Christmas. I'm not thrilled with the frame, but it's not bad. For those of you who didn't get a book or anything, here's how I set it up:

1. my digital camera uses an SD card so I took a blank one that I had laying around, stuck it in my printer (which has the SD slot, my PC doesn't). Then I took pics that I had my computer and just "copied" them to the card which was labeled as in the "F" drive on my computer. Your setup or drive may differ. Took about 2 minutes to copy about 50 pics.

2. Then I took the SD card out of the printer and put it in photo frame. That's the simple part!

3. Plug in the photo frame and program it using the remote; it's much easier than trying to program it using the buttons in the back (or on top).

4. Turn frame on. You should get a blue screen with 5 icons. (Photo, setup, calendar, clock and auto-power)

5. Use your arrow keys on the remote to move to each icon. I went to "Setup" first. That's where you'll find where to set the time between each picture as it rotates, transition effects, brightness, contrast, etc. Some buttons I didn't touch. Had no idea what they were for. I just left them alone LOL. It takes some getting used to the arrow keys and moving around but you'll get used to it.

6. Then I set the clock and calendar. WARNING: When you unplug the frame for any reason (to move it, etc), you may lose some of these settings. I lost them on the first unplug I did but not on the second. Since the clock and calendar aren't important to my mom, I didn't bother resetting them.)

7. Auto power is if you want to have the frame turn on automatically during a certain time of day and the turn off. So if you were using it at the office, you could set it for 8 am. and off at 5 pm, etc. WARNING: Again, these settings are lost if you lose power or unplug it. I find it just as easy to hit the on and off button rather than keep setting it again and again. NOTE: Personally, I'd shut the frame off if I were gone for long periods of time; I noticed the screen does get warm. While I don't think it's a fire hazard or anything, I'm worried that leaving it on 24/7 may just wear the screen out. It doesn't seem that high-quality to begin with so...

8. Photo: This is basically the button you hit to initially load the pics.. Even though they are already on the SD card, when I first turned the frame on, it "uploaded" them. I believe this is so it keeps them in queue and it loads faster from that point forward. This is also the button to just get the photos rolling.

A couple of thoughts:

- landscape-oriented photos fill up the screen nicely. portrait-oriented not so much.

- the screen quality isn't great. Even when I played with the brightness and contrast settings, it still wasn't that terrific.

- My mother's frame does have a few pixels missing on the screen. Doesn't really effect...