Google AdSense Gift 2006: Digital Photo Frame

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Kevom posted on Nov 30th 2006 1:44PM; via forums.digitalpoint.com/showth...

Google AdSense Gift 2006: Digital Photo Frame

Google has begun giving out their AdSense gifts for the 2006 holiday season and the gift is a digital photo frame (GTA-316).

According to the instructions, it's a 960x240 screen and supports JPG images, MP3, WMA or WAV audio files and AVI movies. It also has a SD card reader for extra memory.

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	Rudy Garcia says: The one I received died after 1 day of use !! Posted: 12/01/06 13:36
	Daniel Rivera says: I tried loading some pictures into this thing, no go - just get a file error. Maybe im using the wrong size .jpg? Posted: 12/01/06 15:55
	Juan Epstein says: Same here - "FILE ERROR" no go! merry christmas from google! next year send chocolate! Posted: 12/01/06 17:10
	Nathan Moore says: Same here. Who makes this thing??? There must be a download available to fix this error problem. Any ideas? Posted: 12/01/06 17:46
	Andy Tyler says: Agreed. This thing is a piece of garbage. File errors and crappy software. At least I'm not the only one. Posted: 12/01/06 20:04
	Lima Rani says: Anyone figure out what kind of crazy JPG format this crap uses? Posted: 12/01/06 20:54
	Andy Tyler says: So, that converter software (whatever the hell it does) won't accept anything that has been touched by an editor. If i take unaltered pics straight from the digital camera, it works. So, I've filled the thing up with raw photos. Now for the next problem.... Even though it's plugged in for juice, the battery light won't go away. Google, great idea except the product sucks. Posted: 12/01/06 21:16
	Joe T says: Same Thing - File Error Posted: 12/01/06 23:01
	may says: I cannot set up GRA 316, anyone can tell me how Posted: 12/01/06 23:06
	may says: I cannot make the thing work Posted: 12/01/06 23:08
	Joe T says: The pix must be saved with windows paint as jpg. Photoshop wont work. You have to turn it on and off after you save a pict. Posted: 12/01/06 23:48
	Bill says: Why won't photoshop work? What's the difference between Paint jpegs and Photoshop jpegs? Posted: 12/02/06 14:10
	Joe says: just tried to download a .jpg It locked up 1/2 way through. Now only shows a blue screen and is dead. Can't event turn it off without removing batteries. Posted: 12/02/06 16:18
	jeff says: I had no problems ..Works Great !! drag & drop method from my pictures to removable e disc . jpg pic's Posted: 12/02/06 16:36
	Jay says: Joe T's recommendations worked for me. I was getting "FILE ERROR" on many (but not all) of my pics. I simply opened and re-saved them within MS Paint, and now the frame displays them. You do also seem to have to turn the unit off after transferring files for all the new files to display. Posted: 12/02/06 17:10
	Hurricane Proof says: Thanks tons for the MSPaint tip, i have been searching all over the web looking for some hint on how to get photos w/ any editing done to not give error message. It is just dumb to load huge, raw photos into it, with such a small display screen, and yes, i do know I can stick a SD card in to for more memory. Anyone know what its built in memory capacity is. BTW--the batteries that came w/ it lasted about 30 min. Posted: 12/02/06 17:29
	Andy Tyler says: Looking forward to trying the paint trick. Now, anyone else seeing the battery light in the bottom right, even if it's plugged in? Posted: 12/02/06 17:53
	Freddie says: Jeez - after spending over $100K this year with AdWords, you'd think they could do better than this piece of junk. How about the landfill issues? - I wonder how many tons of scrap will be created by the legions of lucky Google customers who got mailed this worthless toy? Posted: 12/03/06 16:55
	Earl says: What a POS! I tried the MS-Paint tip, as well as turning the unit off, and most of the pix still give a File Error. For the supposedly smart people at Google, what a bunch of morons! Aside from the unit not working, I wasted a bunch of time trying to figure out who gave it to me. Posted: 12/04/06 10:44
	Jeff says: I figured that since this came from Google that it'd at least work with photos exported from Picasa. No dice. I still had to do the MS Paint trick. I also have that annoying battery indicator even though I'm plugged in too. We spend 30-40K per MONTH on AdWords ... I feel almost insulted by this gift which seems to be picked out of a bargain bin. Sometimes it's better to give nothing, than to give something like this... The idea is good, but it's so buggy ... you'd think the technology was just invented yesterday. Posted: 12/04/06 17:00
	myfriendsaid says: my friend (using a mac) dragged the gta-316 drive to the trash to unmount it. seems to have killed it. now it won't even turn on. didn't find a firmware reset option (even with a pin in the tiny hole on the back), nor a combination of keypresses that might reset it. this happened just a few minutes after opening ... any answers? Posted: 12/04/06 19:46
	clasione says: It's really not too bad once it gets working... Just don't think I would have gotten the pictures to work without finding this page.... MS Paint trick worked perfectly... Just open the files and resave to get them to work. Posted: 12/05/06 03:17
	winky says: Earl? Are you a moron? You wasted a bunch of time trying to figure out who sent it to you? Whadda buncha complainers. - Winky Who hasn't used his digital photo frame, and it may wind up on the shelf with.... the scarf, the radio, the digital tool kit. Posted: 12/05/06 07:54
	Tzvi says: Finally I can get pictures on it. I have found out how to get rid of the battery icon, you need to power the frame from a USB port. Then and only then does it remove that stupid icon. I am putting my frame nowhere near my computer so I guess I am SOL. Has anybody figured out how to have it display images for more then 5 secs? I found the menu option and discovered you can change it to 20 but I can't seem to get it to actually change (If I move to the next menu item or exit the screen and come back it shows 5 again.) Any ideas? Posted: 12/05/06 10:23
	Jon says: It works real nice. And the capacity on it, for hurricane proofs question.. it's capacity is 24MB. And MY question is, how big of an SD card can I get, at an affordable price? Posted: 12/05/06 11:51
	Paul says: Where is the removable card? Maybe I missed it in the packing? Can not find it! And I cant upload anything to it, since it wont turn on when plugged into USB!!! ARGH! Can anyone tell me where this card is? Posted: 12/05/06 14:32
	Tzvi says: It doesn't come with a card, you need to buy it seperate if you want to use one. Posted: 12/05/06 15:04
	Chris says: I found a freeware app that will batch convert files to the right jpg for the frame. It's called imagicon. Change the setting to save as jpg, drag and drop and voila. Posted: 12/05/06 15:27
	Paul says: Hold on. So how do I get pictures onto it??? I mean, I put the batteries in, I plug in the USB, it comes up as an unregonized device... Do I need a certain program? The CD had the software on it, but it looked useless, should I use it, if so, then how do I use it? Someone who made this thing work, please help! Posted: 12/05/06 15:29
	Chris says: Hey Paul, When I plugged it in to my PC (USB), it showed up as a Removable Disk, to which I could copy files. What OS are you on? Posted: 12/05/06 15:36
	kmiller says: ok, anybody figure out how to get .asf files to play? Posted: 12/05/06 16:49
	Dan says: This is pretty lame for spending over 30k a month with Google. The best gift I have received was the Google Towel,at least it Still works!!! LOL Posted: 12/05/06 17:34
	Heather says: Mine isn't working either. I tried the Paint trick but to no avail. I'm sure I'll figure out a way to get it working, but it is a bit disappointing that it should be this problematic for so many people. Was that disc that came with it supposed to have software on it? I thought it was a blank disc since it doesn't say anything on it. Maybe that's what is needed to make it work properly. Good luck everyone! Heather Posted: 12/05/06 18:28
	Paul says: Hey! You guys are seriously a bunch of complainers, I mean, most company's don't even bother to give you a card, must-less a card and a gift, what are you expecting? A Plasma TV, new computer, a new Porsche? I tried it on another computer, and worked, I guess my USB port on my computer was bad, never used it much anyways. I must admit that this does have a fair amount of bugs, and the instructions were practicly usless. But really, complaining never helps with something like this. Google's not going to pay 2 million dollars on christmas gifts. But yep, the MS Paint trick worked for me. Thanks guys. Works great now, and I'm showing it to all of my friends Google is definitely one of the most friendly companies around. Really, you should have no room to complain at this. Anyways, enjoy the holidays! -Paul Posted: 12/05/06 19:38
	Paul says: BTW, you would need to convert .asf to .mp4 for it to play on this. Posted: 12/05/06 19:40
	Joel says: Mine works fine displaying pictures. Plugged it into USB port on my computer, deleted the samples they had (including movie and music) to free up more space, dragged over some photos and away we went. Now, if we could just find an answer to Tzvi's issue. I also tried changing from 5 second displays to a different duration. Whenever I toggled off one option it switched back to its original state (as per Tzvi's experience). Pretty frustrating. I'll check back from time to time to see if someone comes up with the resolution for this one... Posted: 12/05/06 19:59
	Tzvi says: It doesn't come with a card, you need to buy it seperate if you want to use one. Posted: 12/05/06 21:22
	MarcoPolo says: ok, it's a piece of crap Posted: 12/06/06 10:01
	hackit says: Anybody Ever Read Make Magazine? This little unit is full of goodies that are just waiting for someone to hack into and make it useful. Mine doesn't work well either but I can't wait to dig into it and figure out what I can make it do. Free mini lcd screen! Cool. Posted: 12/06/06 19:13
	Kevin says: My XP with SP2 sees this as a SUNPLUS SPCA536. I cannot find a driver for this device. At one point, I could get it to show up as a removable drive, but it wouldn't let me drag photos to it. Now after restarting it, nada. Posted: 12/07/06 18:39
	David says: How do you mount this or stand it up? I see a small port that looks like a stand would plug into it but no addition parts. Posted: 12/07/06 20:48
	Kcimme says: The ImageIcon program worked. How retarted. Cool gift, but you would think they might test them first??? Posted: 12/08/06 13:34
	sarah says: The device will die after one day of BATTERY use. Battery is for short term use only. For normal use, the device comes with two “normal usage” power supplies: USB Cable to be plugged in DIRECTLY to your Computer. Plugging in to USB Hubs, that are not “Self Powered”, will not work in some cases. AC Adaptor is also provided for normal use. As far as Loading images, it’s very easy: For PC Users: Turn the unit on Plug the unit in to the USB Port on your Computer using the cable provided Go to “My Computer” under your Start Menu on your Computer Desk Top Go to appropriate “Removable Disk Icon” and double click to open Open “Photo File” Drag your .jpg files to this folder Turn unit off unplug from your PC After you turn the unit back on, your image should now be viewable For Mac Users: Turn the unit on Plug the unit in to the USB Port on your Computer using the cable provided Double Click on the “Drive Icon” on your Desk Top Go to “Photo File: and Double Click to open Drag you.jpg files to this folder Turn unit off unplug from your Mac After you turn the unit back on, your image should now be viewable “File Errors” occur when the device is unplugged from your Computer without turning the unit off first. Posted: 12/08/06 15:20
	lucius says: Powered USB == dumb == Firmware Update... Posted: 12/08/06 17:05
	lucius says: but good tips Posted: 12/08/06 17:07
	Chris says: Well mine does not work at all. After power on you get some coloured squares moving around followed by a noise, then just a blue screen, even the off switch does not work. Posted: 12/08/06 17:19
	Sarah says: When using an SD Card to view your images please following the instructions closely. For PC Users: Make sure that the unit is turned off. Plug in the SD Card to the top of the unit. Turn on the unit Your SD Card is now being formatted automatically. Your SD Card is now formatted with 4 new file folders: a) MP3 File (for Music) b) MP4 File (For Video) c) Photo File (For Images) d) Rec File (For Recordings) 5. Take the USB Cable provided and plug one end in to the device and the other end in to your Computer 6. Go to “My Computer” under your Start Menu on your Computer Desk Top 7. Go to appropriate “Removable Disk Icon” and double click to open (Make sure that it’s the correct Removable Disk Icon, there will also be one for the Internal memory as well) 8. Click an drag your image files to the “Photo File”, your music files to the “MP3 File” etc... 9. Turn the unit off 10. Unplug from your PC 11. After you turn the unit back on, your images will now be viewable For Mac Users: Make sure that the unit is turned off. Plug in the SD Card to the top of the unit. Turn on the unit Your SD Card is now being formatted automatically. Your SD Card is now formatted with 4 new file folders: a) MP3 File (for Music) b) MP4 File (For Video) c) Photo File (For Images) d) Rec File (For Recordings) 5. Take the USB Cable provided and plug one end in to the device and the other end in to your Computer 6. In a Moment, 2 Drive Icons will appear on your Desk Top. 7. Go to appropriate Disk Icon and double click to open (Make sure that it’s the correct Disk Icon, there will also be one for the Internal memory as well) 8. Click an drag your image files to the “Photo File”, your music files to the “MP3 File” etc... 9. Turn the unit off 10. Unplug from your PC 11. After you turn the unit back on, your images will now be viewable Posted: 12/08/06 18:31
	Zunguri says: It is clear to me that Google's employees are a lot smarter than its customers. Usage is IOTTMCO. Google might want to ship a Technology for Dummies book next year. Intuitively Obvious To The Most Casual Observer Posted: 12/09/06 20:39
	TwoWheel says: We'll be happy to purchase any units that are producing "FILE ERROR" messages for $10(USD) each. Just send an e-mail to digitalframe@2wheeltouring.net Posted: 12/10/06 17:40
	i got it regifted says: seems to be working fine. props to the guy who figured out the MSpaint thing. this website was much more helpful than the included software or the manual. pretty neat product though. Posted: 12/11/06 10:36
	vern says: recieved it today. DOes not work. Spent hours on it. Can input photos, but gives only FILE ERROR. WIll not show my photos. No contact for repair. Posted: 12/11/06 19:52
	spencer says: has the blue screen problem been solved yet Posted: 12/12/06 05:04
	Stu says: I quite like it and the jpg thing worked fine for me using MSpaint but how about uploading mp4 files? How do I do that? Posted: 12/12/06 11:56
	Jake says: I quite liked mine in the end. File Errors seem to be solved by switching the unit off before unplugging it from the USB/computer. The 20 second timer can be saved by pressing the play button in the menu (this acts as an ENTER key) Battery icon is a pain when powered by DC though. Thanks Google! I like it. Posted: 12/12/06 15:54
	CJ_AUS says: spencer, I had the same problem with the Google digital photo frame GTA-316 (SUNPLUS SPCA536) blue screen of death. I solved the seemingly terminal problem by inserting a SD memory card into the card slot on top and suddenly the PC would see that device and I could access the whole thing again and DELETE the problematic JPGs and add new ones that comply with the JPG format that the device will accept. HTH Posted: 12/12/06 20:46
	Santy says: Its just too Good !! Great music quality when the earphones r connected... and the video quality is of top quality. Goin to purchase a 1gb memory card... and lets hop it reads it n works well !! thankyou Google !! Posted: 12/13/06 04:56
	nick botulism says: "why complain, it's free?" ask some people. it's hard to classify this as "free" when it has COST me far too much time and energy trying to get this thing to do something useful, as opposed to just chucking it into a landfill. Posted: 12/19/06 13:42
	Rick says: I finally got mine working after doing the following: 1. All image titles have to be ALL caps. This includes the JPG portion of the name (I.E. IMAGE.JPG, not IMAGE.jpg). 2. All images have to be opened and saved in MS Paint. 3. File names should NOT include any dashes, underscores, etc. 4. Images MUST be in the photo directory (obvious, but still important). If you do all that... the thing seems to work fine. Posted: 12/19/06 16:02
	David F. Skoll says: SUCCESS under Linux!! I don't do Windoze, so the MS Paint trick didn't work for me. It turns out it's not necessary. The trick is to mount the USB mass storage device as an "msdos" file system, NOT a "vfat" file system. Copy your pictures over. Unmount, unplug, power off, power on and the pictures appear. It still crashes randomly and is basically pretty crappy, but at least it displays my pictures now. Posted: 12/19/06 19:58
	c.hsiao says: Anyone got a "BOOK" folder in the SD memory? The first time I inserted the SD, 4 folders namely PHOTO, MP3, MP4 and REC were created automatically. After couples of shutdowns and re-starts, I found the fifth folder named BOOK is also created. Anyone has a clue? Posted: 12/19/06 21:01
	Rika says: I got this gift yesterday, and I realise I need an SD card to make it work, right? hmm I am too blond for this, how to get a hold an that card? and how much does it cost? anyone knows? Posted: 12/20/06 11:30
	CANI says: HOLA,NO CONSIGO INSTALAR EL SOFTWARE, Y ASI NO PUEDO PASAR MIS FOTOS.DONDE LO CONSIGO? EL DEL CD NO VALE. Posted: 12/20/06 13:00
	chris says: It works!!! Posted: 12/20/06 15:32
	kathy at skyscape says: I had almost 200 pics loaded in and got error file message on 4 of them and it froze. Wiped the SD Card and loaded each pic after saving it in Paint one by one. It only had about 25 pics in it and displayed them once for my test run. I turned it off to plug it to a different area to view and I got the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH. It wont do anything. Hey Google...nice idea, but the frame is defective. We had it working for about 1 hour total. Spent about 5 hours getting the pics saved and in. Thanks a LOT. :0( I want chocolate instead too. Posted: 12/20/06 16:59
	Simon Lynch says: Everyone is just missing the point with this. Some dumb monkey at Google forgot an important sticker on the packet; it should have read "Google Picture Frame Beta". This is obviously an extended user test for a new Google business unit - the real digital imaging unit. Soon everyone on the planet will be sent one of these free. When plugged into your computer it will display random snaps based on what you are surfing or just feeling like at the time (they know everything after all), this delightful experience will be interspersed with 'relevant' advertisements. If it doesn't work, feel proud as you are part of a grand guinea pig experiment! P.S. managed to get this POS working (mmm, nice to have to use Microsoft software to do so, someone took their eye off the ball there... too many stock options methinks). Now I have 5 photos on it, I have an emergency present for the wife if I don't have enough time to sort the rest of my Christmas shopping! Posted: 12/20/06 19:49
	Menno says: Mine just works... Maybe because I'm not an idiot and am able to use deductive reasoning? I like it; Thanks Google! Posted: 12/21/06 15:55
	Menno says: For the people STILL whining how theirs "doesn't work": 1. Hook the device up to your PC (using the USB cord) 2. Turn device on 3. Open a picture (preferably horizontal orientation) in MSPaint or use that Imagicon program someone suggested. 4. Save said picture in not too high a resolution, and name it in ALL CAPS 5. Copy said picture to the photo folder on your device 6. Turn your awesome frame OFF 7. Turn your awesome frame ON Posted: 12/21/06 16:01
	bartheq says: Forget MSPaint and other complicated methods: just download Image Resizer powertoy for Windows, resize selected photos to 640x480 and copy them to your frame's PHOTO folder. It's faster, makes photos smaller and WORKS! I just tested over 100 photos and found no errors. Posted: 12/22/06 03:25
	R says: NO, you do not need to buy a SD memory card. Simply use the built-in memory (24 MB) using the provided USB cable. Works fine on Windows XP. NO, you do not need to use uppercase filenames only. It works fine for me (use A-Z a-z 0-9 - but no spaces and spacial characters). Unfortunately the divice does not understand all flavours of JPG formats. But it works WITHOUT using tools from Microsoft Select the photos you like on Google Picasa, click on export, resize them to 640x480 (so Picasa will touch every file) and store them on the "Removeble Disk". It's free and it works Posted: 12/22/06 14:12
	Julio Alonso says: I've got a mac and the only way to make it work was to show photos on fullscreen and capture them on jpg format with the capture widget, then change the name to substitute the .jpeg extention for .jpg. It seems to record them in the right format. BTW, got two units from Google. One is dead and cannot make it turn on. The other seems to be working for the time being... Nice idea, clunky implementation. The europower thing is cool too. Posted: 12/23/06 06:33
	Neil Enock says: OK, so - you have to use a PC and you have to go through a bunch of hoops and spend a bunch of time on it and then maybe it will work. For people who are spending what we all spend with Google, the gesture is appreciated but any of my clients would call this a marketing disaster. Nice try Google, I'm betting you went with the lowest bidder. I'll spend another hour but then it's the trash heap for this one. Too bad - it looks good on the outside. Hey, how about a website with directions, proper instructions, an apology - anything? Posted: 12/23/06 21:38
	MasterD says: To: JOHN, Who do u think you are calling customers retarded. Obviously you are a boring nerd who is still a VIRGIN after the age of 40. if you think the operation/ setup of this device is easy, i bet you are still squatting your fat-ass on the computer playing pac-man. P.S: The device should come with a manual for Software setup or booklet with required programs so it will make things a whole lot easier Posted: 12/25/06 17:03
	MasterD says: I want to know how to put music files on it, it is confusing and i am getting real pissed off. In mor simpler words: "HELP" Posted: 12/25/06 17:09
	big_head_kid says: i hate this thing, it needs to be more simpler to use. plus ineed to get that card thingy. Posted: 12/25/06 17:14
	mindm says: In fact - useless thing. If they only could make clock there... And it's noisy (strange LCD noise) and buggy. The box is nice, adapter is only can help you somewhere. The idea, maybe, was that they will present something with innovations, high-tech. Thanks Google. Hope next time it will be something which I can use. Posted: 12/26/06 02:59
	Valmort says: I guess they are not ready for the hardware biz... Posted: 12/26/06 12:43
	Mikey says: I found one Idea worked for the Pictures. I mass converted jpegs to jpegs using a bulk convertor tool. I found it on download.com, it's got a 15 day trial. But it sorted out all my picture problems. I just typed in JEPG convertor. My Jpegs now seem to all work. Posted: 12/26/06 20:52
	Chris says: After the first unit gave the 'blue screen of death' I thought I would ask Google what to do about it. They just sent me another one! Picture of the parrot etc worked but as soon as I loaded one of mine I got the 'blue screen of death' again! I think it is a file size issue or something. Nice one Google maybe you should have tried this out first or got someone who could speak English to write the manual. Posted: 01/02/07 10:56
	ChiliPepper says: Hi... mine worked fine from the moment I turned it on. Kept going when I fed it some music and pics (BTW, if you're a mac user, just drag&drop the pics from iPhoto in case you have that: worked for me!). The first problem occured when I tried to put some vids on there. Wouldn't play, so I converted them to MP4s (smaaart). Said "No MP4 files". Then I read here that it plays AVI files. Put an avi file on there, now it tells me there's a file error. Pleaaaase lend me a hand here! It'd be awesome... Posted: 01/03/07 15:58
	Lili says: Is there any way to fix it once you're stuck with the blue screen. Seems like you're dead in the water as the thing won't respond to anything in blue screen mode. Posted: 01/13/07 12:39
	Sopheos says: Best way to create compatible Jpeg. Use Fastone Photo Resizer resize to width=1024 height=768 don't keep EXIF info in jpeg option and set compression to 60 select destination folder to removable disk\PHOTO And Go... It's very fast and all my photos are compatible with the frame. Posted: 01/15/07 07:27
	StevenC says: TO ALL THOSE WHO CAN'T GET IT RECOGNIZED BY WINDOWS!!! I just bought one last week, everytime i plugged it to a usb port, windows show that message and not on the CD could get it working properly. the next day i tried to conect it to another port and it finally worked. I don't think it's a problem with the USB port but maybe windows making a conflict with devices that used this port before. Posted: 01/16/07 10:35
	Chris says: OK, to recover from the Blue Screen of Death, you simple have to boot it with a SD card in place. You can then access the internal memory and remove the photo files that are causing the problem. Posted: 01/16/07 14:23
	Bob says: By formatting pictures in Photoshop to 240x320 jpg files and then opening and saving them with MS Paint I had no trouble loading the images. I carefully labeled the images so they would play in a particular sequence. The player appears to play them in reverse order and to some extent in random order. Each time I load them they appear to play in a different order. Has anyone figured out how to get them to play in a pre-defined sequence? Posted: 01/21/07 14:16
	StevenC says: how long does ur battery last?? mine last only 3hrs Posted: 01/25/07 03:24
	alonemrinal says: NO PROBLEM! EVERYTHING FINE, WORKING AND COOL ALL CONVERTS DOING GOOD. Posted: 01/25/07 12:17
	riderjim says: My wife has been working on this since we got it. It has not worked right yet and now she has gotten THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH. Now it's my problem, let's hope the SD card trick works Posted: 01/29/07 21:06
	shalyn says: I agree piece of CRAP! Posted: 02/13/07 21:10
	boni says: My son gave me his, I tried for a couple hours to make it work. Manual is written in strange "English" and is no help. Buttons, screen text, and imagery are not intuitive. This web search help here didn't help. I can't even get it to show up via my Mac USB. Frustrating, giving up. Posted: 03/18/07 23:28
	anonymouse says: I also received this contraption. - The LCD has a funny and very annoying noise which should not be there. - The software/firmware is buggy and very very basic and unpolished. - The manual is clearly written by a non-native and is layed out very poorly. All in all, a very cheap solution which you'd probably get in Hong Kong for $10 US, possibly less. Had Google given this device to any of their techs for evaluation, it had been discarded as an unfinished piece of crap within minutes. Aside from good looks (although the buttons aren't very accurately positioned within their slots) this unit needs much more work to be "consumer grade". All of this could have been easily avoided by basic QA. It wasn't a good try, it was a really good failure. It's nice to see gifts given but either give something that's usable or don't give anything at all. Better luck next time Posted: 03/22/07 07:59
	Larusso says: Got this little jewel from my son today. Took a little work as manual is not much help. Anyway, it works great !My mp3's and photos work fine with out any conversion.. Asf's have to be run through the converson software. Can't understand what all the fuss was about. nice gift from google. Posted: 05/27/07 21:02
	Ed Leung says: Recently I've moved to a new place and was looking for something to decorate my home. I found this little toy sitting in the drawer in my office. I got this from Google for X'mas. and never had the time to even open the box. I'm glad that I tried the frame in July and can find all the solutions online today. How about getting rid of the annoying battery icon?? Posted: 07/31/07 21:13
	Yamedo says: My wife started working again after several kids... she asked me to do frame with pictures -- and I remebered the Google christmas gift -- and started experiencing the problems with this digital frame. Thanks to the comments it works now with the paintshop pro tip. The software that was delivered gives nothing but errors to me. Thanks Google - Thanks for the tips! Yamedo Posted: 09/16/07 16:38
	skulk says: hi.. i got the blue screen of death and tried the SD card trick but it doesnt go away.. also i tried it on another mate's pc and u cant access the memory either because windows doesnt recognize. Posted: 11/19/07 15:46
	Heather says: I think it's hilarious how long it has taken some of us to open the box! With the holiday 2007 gift around the corner, I decided to open mine and import Christmas photos of the kids from 2001 through 2006. It took THREE hours of my life, but with the Paint Shop trick mentioned here, I got the job done. The upside of opening each file in Paint Shop is that it gets around the annoying fact that the frame insists on sorting your images by date rather than alphabetically. Just open them in the order that you want them to appear so the 'date modified' sort will match your alphabetical sort. Posted: 12/01/07 00:41
	tortoise says: a bit slow and i know as much as about computers as i do about astrophysics...but this thing is pretty easy really...stick the photos in the photo box, turn the thing off and back on again and that's it - don't try to be clever with all the fancy crap. just remember, where there's a way there's an easy way!! Posted: 12/16/07 07:39
	hamachi says: it's good gift Posted: 04/14/08 09:40