Just wanted to let you all know that I found a "Sexy Rexy" on sale in June; planted it; and, have been enjoying the blossoms for weeks. Everybody who knew my neighbor have just HOWLED at the name "Sexy Rexy" for reasons I won't go into here and thought it was extremely appropriate. BTW: Since this is an El Nino year for those of us on the East Coast, we have suffered from a horrific winter and an equally awful summer. HOWEVER, the few roses that I have which generally are denuded by Black Spot by June, haven't shown a bit of it until this month. H-m-m-m-m.

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...

hi Docktord 2008, Are the pictures on the memory stick or are you trying to copy them to the memory stick? Either way, I would open two windows, one with the folder containing the pictures and one with the open SD card or media that you need to load the pictures on for the digital frame. Then either use copy/paste or just drag the photos to the window for the frame. Hope this helps, Pam

Oh, right--the ability to store it on a card would make all the difference. I wonder why they didn't include that with the Nexus. Well, I just found out that I can buy individual episodes to watch on my TV for $1.99. I assume that's a one-viewing price, but that's okay. I might go that route. Or I may borrow the DVDs from a friend. Thanks, Raven!