If you have one of GiiNii’s great digital photo frames, you might not know about all the great features that are built in. Perhaps you just loaded some pictures, turned on the frame and let it do its thing. But there are all sorts of features and options to play with.

If you want to know more about the slideshow feature or even some of the other, more advanced options, be sure to go over to GiiNii’s free video tutorial on frame features. This great video shows you how ti use some of the best features GiiNii offers. It’s a great use of your time if you have a GiiNii frame and want to know how to use it better.

What are some of the best uses for a digital photo frame? That’s what we here at the GiiNii digital photo frame blog want to know.

Sure, we have loads of ideas. Obviously, hanging a digital piure frame on the wall or using it as a center piece for your bed side table are two great options. But digital photo frames are for so much more.

They can be used for business or art projects. They make great gifts. They can be fun to play with. But what is your favorite use for a digital photo frame?

Maybe you did something special with a digital photo frame. Maybe you used one in a display or for a project. Whatever it is, we want to know about it.

Please leave comments with your best uses and over the next few weeks, we’ll compile a list of the best and post them here on the blog with links to your site.

We love digital frames, and I know there are a lot of people out there that feel the same way. So, if you have had a creative moment with a digital photo frame, let us know.

In the meantime, we’ll continue to bring you great tips and notes on GiiNii frames.

When you bring home a new GiiNii digital photo frame, there is always the tough decision of what pictures to load onto it. But the process of sorting through your photos to pick out the best ones can be easier if you go about it the right way.

First, use a photo management system to help keep track of all your photos. You can find some good suggestions on what type of system to use in this previous post here at the GiiNii blog.

Once you have all your photos in order, go about picking one or two shots from each set of photos. Take a photo or two from that fun night out, one from your birthday party, a few from the latest family trip. Mix in a couple from friends. Spice it up with some of your favorite nature snaps. The key is variety.

Many just put whole series of photos from the same night or event on their frames, and the lack of variety soon grows old. If you mix up the pictures, you are more likely to enjoy the outcome a little more.

Plus, with a good variety, the frame becomes a better talking point with guests. Instead of just sitting through a vacation slideshow, guests have a chance to see all kinds of memories. It will get people talking.

Overall, just make sure to mix it up.

We’ve had a few questions her on the GiiNii blog about the best way to transfer your photos to a new digital picture frame. There are a number of ways to go about it, and I’ll walk through a few of the best ways for you here now.

Internal Memory

Some frames have a built-in storage capacity. Usually it is small compared to the amount of memory that can be added using a card. However, if you would like to put a few pictures on the digital photo frame without a card, you should be able to hook the frame up to your computer using a standard USB cable. (Your frame should have included the cable in the box when you bought it.)

Once you hook up the frame to your computer, power both the frame and the computer up. You should see a new icon on your desktop that represents the frame’s internal memory. If you can see this, simply open up the icon and drag your photos to the new window. If you don;t see an icon, your frame might not have internal memory. Another reason you might not see an icon is because you need to install a driver for the frame. Usually, the frame’s drivers can be downloaded from the makers website or from an install CD that came with your frame.

Memory Card Only

Most frames can use a standard SD memory card. I recommend the SD card because it has one of the best price/storage ratios. You can find extra SD memory cards for around $10-$20 by searching Google.

Once you have a SD card, there are two ways to go about getting the photos to your frame. The first is by simply inserting the card into your frame and following the above instructions. Once the card is in the frame, and it is hooked up to your computer, an icon for the card should pop up on your desktop. From there, all you need to do is simply drag and drop your photos to your card. Make sure you are copying the photos though, not just dragging the original photos to the card and removing them from your computer.

The other option is to load the card before inserting it into your frame. You can do this using a card reader attached to your computer. Some laptops have a card reader built in, while many printers have this option, as well. There are also card readers available for sale. But, if you have a printer with one, there is no need to buy a seperate card reader. In fact, you camera or digital frame can act as a card reader too. Just hook them up to your computer as stated above.

Once hooked up, again, it’s as simple as dragging and dropping your photos to the card, ejecting the card and loading it into your frame.

I suggest having a separate card for each frame. This way, you can avoid switching cards every time you want to use a different frame.

There you have it, the quick easy ways to load your frame. If you have any other questions, just leave them in the comments.

For most people having a decent digital photo frame is enough, it sits on the side or desk, changing images occasionally and in some cases may even play some music to accompany the family slideshow. However, digital photo frames are so much more than that, in fact if you have a Wi-Fi enabled frame then the sky is literally the limit.

Wi-Fi opens up some really cool possibilities for the home user, sharing photos from anywhere in the world can be done without the need for a computer, no RSS, memory cards, USB, links or downloads.

There are a few sites out there which will help you, but today we will be looking at yougotphoto.com a site where photo sharing is as easy as using a cell phone.

You would expect that a service like yougotphoto.com would be fairly expensive to use, it is in fact totally free and you will be able to manage your entire photo collection from one place. What makes this service even more interesting is that fact that the user can make use of the content from Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, Windows Live, Yahoo Photo Search, Google Photo Search, and many more.

The site is divided into four sections:

My Frame – This is where you add your frame or frames, you can add up to five frames to the system.

Photo Source – This is where the frames content comes from, either your own photos or from the internet.

Photo Manager – From here the photos are placed into each frame.

Share Frames – Now you have done all this great stuff, then why not share them with your family and friends.

This is wonderful way of managing and sharing photos, Yougotphoto