Sorry... this doesn't have much to do with The Little Gym...
Last December, we got oneof those keychains that can display JPEG images, and loaded a few photos of our children on it for our Nanny, Kayla. So I got it in my head to purchase one of the larger digital photo frames for my wife, Marie, for Valentine's Day.
My 2 children and I spent about an hour this week going through some old photos and copying our favorites into a temporary folder on my PC. I then spent several more hours on my own, going through our archives of photos. I had to stop around 2004, when Blaise, our 2nd, was born. So after about 3-4 hours, I had 600+ photos to load.
Last night I plugged in the Pandigital 7" frame and started copying them over. One hour later, I found out that my photos were too big to fit -- the resolution was too high. Yikes! The box says that it can hold several thousand photos!
After experimenting for 45 minutes, I googled "How do I resize photos in bulk?" and found Bulk Photo Resizer, from Download.com. While it resized all 635 photos, I figured out how to put a "greeting card" on the digital frame, which had several backgrounds -- the roses were a nice touch.
I then tried to upload the *much* smaller 800x600p photos, and failed!! I tried copying them to a USB memory stick and then transferring them but that didn't work! However, when I did that, a subdirectory called "Photos" magically appeared on the digital frame. When I tried copying the photos to that directory, Egads, it worked!
After a quick clearing off of the kitchen table, setting out some flowers, a card, and our picture frame, we're good to go!
Here's The Little Gym tie in... I toying with buying one of these frames for the gym. But... do I want to deal with this headache on a weekly basis? Hmmm....
Marie just woke up so I'm going to go... Hope you all have a very Happy Valentine's Day!
-Ron
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