DIGITAL PHOTO KEYCHAIN
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The Digital Photo Keychain is a rather handy little gizmo to have on your keychain; it allows you to store approx. 100 photographs on it, has an internal rechargeable battery, and features an OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) display -- this marks the first time I've even seen OLEDs -- let alone owning something which uses the little critters.
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Press and hold the button on the unit's right side near the bottom for approximately three seconds and then release it to turn the unit on.
Press and hold the same button again for approximately three seconds and then release it to turn the unit off.
PhotoViewer Plug-n-Play Feature
Plug the included USB CABLE into the Digital Photo Keychain’s USB port, and connect the other end to a 2.0 USB port on your computer. The Digital Photo Keychain will power on automatically.
PC USERS
Press the button once.
The Main Menu will display on the keychain's screen.
Using the /\ or \/ buttons, highlight USB CONNECT from the list and press the button to Select.
Using the /\ or \/ buttons, highlight YES and press the button to Select.
The keychain’s screen will display “USB Connect” and the “PhotoViewer” software (apparently either something already built into Windows XP machines or loaded off the Digital Photo Keychain itself) will automatically launch and will allow you to pull, view, edit and download photos from your computer to the Digital Photo Keychain.
Note: If you do not see the PhotoViewer window or icon on your desktop, you may have to go into your Applications or My Computer hard drive to manually open the “DPFMate” drive.
Double click on “DPFMate”. Double click on the PhotoViewer frame icon to launch.
Downloading and Editing photos with photoviewer
Connect the Digital Photo Keychain to your computer with the USB CABLE and open the PhotoViewer software.
Using the PhotoViewer software, browse your computer for photo(s).
Click on the chosen photo file in the list of photos, and it will appear in the large PhotoViewer window (see example at right for all tool locations).
You may adjust the view by clicking and dragging the Selection Box to the sections of the photo. If you want a close-up of a section to appear on the frame, use the + Magnifying Tool to enlarge the photo, and drag the
Selection Box to center your desired subject. Use the - Magnifying Tool to revert to the original photo size.
Use the clockwise and counterclockwise Flip Tools to flip your photo.
Use the Pen Tool to fit the original photo to the frame's screen (keep in mind that this may distort the photo).
When you have finished editing the photo, click the Arrow Tool to save the edited photo to the frame's drive.
Click on Synchronize in the Control Panel when you are finished locating, editing and saving all photos. This will load them to the Digital Photo Keychain.
Note: You may also edit/delete selected photos already downloaded on the frame by selecting them. Just click on the Photo Thumbnail and the photo will appear in the large PhotoViewer window.
Use Select All when you want to delete all, or the majority of the photos on the keychain, just remember to deselect the ones you'd like to remain on the keychain.
To remove the Keychain from your computer, simply disconnect the USB CABLE from the Keychain.
There are a bunch of other instructions; since I do not feel like writing a book at this time, I'll simply direct you to the User manual (in .PDF format; stored on my server to prevent "hotlinking").
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The Digital Photo Keychain uses a rechargeable battery, so I do not have to tell you which part to remove, huck into the fireplace, toss a Chimney Sweeping Log in there & ignite it, and then rather emphatically tell you not to.
Since this is rechargeable, I suppose it would be best to tell you how to charge it...you simply insert one end of the included USB cable into on the keychain and the
other end into your computer’s USB 2.0 port.
A battery level indicator will flash on the display.
Charging time for the keychain is approximately 2-3 hours and provides up to 2 hours of viewing time.
This is a digital photograph viewer, not a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused. So I won't try to drown it in the cistern (toliet tank), bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a porch, let my mother's big dog's ghost, my sister's kitty cat, or my own kitty cat spring a leak (uranate) on it, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a medium ball peen hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central {aka. "Party Central"}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. So this section of the web page will be ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.
I've read a number of reports that stated that the keychain attachment can become spontaneously unscrewed, resulting in potential loss of the product. In my testing of this, tightening it as tightly as you can with your fingers only should mitagate this -- at least for the vast majority of users; however, if you're still uncertain about the physical security of simply tightening the keychain ass'y, you may apply a small quantity of adhesive (such as Gorilla Glue) or Locktight to the threads immediately prior to screwing it back on. While yes, this will prevent product loss, it will also remove the "detachable keychain" option -- that is, the keychain attachment will be on there permanently.
Photograph of the keychain displaying a photograph of my now-deceased "bestest" friend Paul Casey.
Photograph of the keychain displaying a photograph of my computer installation in 1990; specifically, The Toylet Bowl BBS as it appeared during that time.
I was the sysop (pronounced "") {short for "system operator"} of this BBS.
Photograph of the keychain displaying a photograph of my adorable, loveable little pussy cat Nikki.
The "blueness" of the above photographs is a result of the camera; photographs actually appear quite natural-looking to the human eye.
Photograph of the right side of this product.
Photograph of the left side of this product.
Photograph of the analogue clock display in this product.
Photograph of what appears to be a defect in the display. I thought that it might have been a hair, but it did not wipe or scrub away.
There are also a couple of "dead" pixels, as the following photograph shows:
See the two dark spots?
Those are the "dead" pixels.
I had the product display a white screen (R=255, G=255, B=255) for the two photographs immediately above.
Spectrographic analysis of the OLED screen (displaying red) in this photo keychain.
Spectrographic analysis of the OLED screen (displaying red) in this photo keychain; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 590nm and 640nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 603.411nm.
Photograph of the red OLEDs.
Spectrographic analysis of the OLED screen (displaying green) in this photo keychain.
Spectrographic analysis of the OLED screen (displaying green) in this photo keychain; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 515nm and 565nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 539.115nm.
Photograph of the green OLEDs.
Spectrographic analysis of the OLED screen (displaying blue) in this photo keychain.
Spectrographic analysis of the OLED screen (displaying blue) in this photo keychain; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 430nm and 480nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 449.850nm.
Photograph of the blue OLEDs.
Spectrographic analysis of the OLED screen (displaying white) in this photo keychain.
Spectrographic analysis of the OLED screen (displaying white) in this photo keychain; spectrometer'a response broadened to its maximum range of 175nm to 874nm to check for emission in the UV and NIR -- as you can see, none was found.
Photograph of all three colored (red, green, and blue) OLEDs on simultaneously (together).
Video on YourTube showing the OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) Digital Photo Keychain from Brookstone displaying a "slide show" of some photographs I downloaded from my pee-cee.
You'll see a number of different photographs: many of my cute and adorable little kitty cat Nikki, one of a "cyber friend"'s kitty cat Harley in a Bud Light box, one of my sister's cat Pookie, two of my mother's cat Baby (Girl), two of the Candid Camera coin given to me on 05-09-1990 after being caught by their cameras just east of downtown Seattle WA. USA, two of my late-father, some of my now-deceased dearest friend Paul Casey (and one of his now-defunct "Waka Waka BBS" logo & telephone number), one of my great friend Primo (he's shown handing out noisemakers and party favours from a box on New Year's Eve 1992), several photographs of me (one tending bar in the early-1990s, two at Safeco Field in Seattle, one of me with the Mariners Moose, one of me with pink hair and lots of colorful baubles around my neck at the now-defunct Manray Video Bar in Seattle (it's no big secret that I'm a "homosexicle" {(from the movie "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry"}, so I have no problems whatsoever displaying this photograph!), one of me sporting a pink mohawk, one of me standing with a good acquaintence, two of the sign I carried in the Gay Pride Parade (also called "The F46 March" by some) in Seattle in the erly-1990s, a number of screen dumps (yes, they're really called that!) of Commodore 64 computer demos I wrote..."MAG FACTOR THREE/TDM was released in mid-November 1992, "WARP DAMAGE/TDM" was released on February 14, 1992, and "AIDS DEMO/TDC" was released in late-September 1993, a couple of pet rats I used to have, one of the M.V. Tustumena (a ferry on the Alaska Marine Highway system), one of the splash screen I used on my website early last decade, one of the Space Needle in Seattle, one of my hometown of Juneau AK. USA, one of a sign made for me by a fan of my website using the "Church Sign Maker" website, a couple of my long-lost (but recently found) best friend's puppy dogs Roxi and Pili, one of a collage of RIP (Remote Imaging Protocol) graphics I made in the mid-1990s to use on both Paul's Waka Waka BBS and my own BBS -- the now-defunct Toylet Bowl BBS, a photograph of my BBS as it appeared in 1990, a sunrise from home, a split-screen photograph of a vintage JVC RC-M70JW ghetto blaster that I used to have, my best friends Phillip B. and Paul D. sitting in a booth at Godfather's Pizza near my home in Federal Way WA. USA and a couple of screen dumps from SpongeBob SquarePants.
That music you hear is the song "Numbers" by Kraftwerk.
This product is not sound-sensitive; the audio may be ignored or even muted if it pisses you off.
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***NSFYE!!!***
Video showing the OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) Digital Photo Keychain from Brookstone displaying a "slide show" of some photographs I downloaded from my pee-cee.
You'll see a number of different photographs: many of my cute and adorable little kitty cat Nikki, three of a "cyber friend"'s kitty cat Harley, two more showing Mooch and Smoke owned by the same person, one of my sister's cat Pookie, several of my mother's cat Baby (Girl), several of my mother's cat Patches, two of the Candid Camera coin given to me on 05-09-1990 after being caught by their cameras just east of downtown Seattle WA. USA, two of my late-father, some of my now-deceased dearest friend Paul Casey (and one of his now-defunct "Waka Waka BBS" logo & telephone number), one of my great friend Primo (he's shown handing out noisemakers and party favours from a box on New Year's Eve 1992), several photographs of me (one tending bar in the early-1990s, two at Safeco Field in Seattle, one of me with the Mariners Moose, one of me with pink hair and lots of colorful baubles around my neck at the now-defunct Manray Video Bar in Seattle (it's no big secret that I'm a "homosexicle", so I have no problems whatsoever displaying this photograph!), one of me sporting a pink mohawk, one of me standing with a good acquaintence, two of the sign I carried in the Gay Pride Parade (also called "The F46 March" by some) in Seattle in the erly-1990s, a number of screen dumps (yes, they're really called that!) of Commodore 64 computer demos I wrote..."MAG FACTOR THREE/TDM was released in mid-November 1992, "WARP DAMAGE/TDM" was released on February 14, 1992, and "AIDS DEMO/TDC" was released in late-September 1993, a couple of pet rats I used to have, one of the M.V. Tustumena (a ferry on the Alaska Marine Highway system), one of the splash screen I used on my website early last decade, one of the Space Needle in Seattle, one of my hometown of Juneau AK. USA, one of a sign made for me by a fan of my website using the "Church Sign Maker" website, a couple of my long-lost (but recently found) best friend's puppy dogs Roxi and Pili, one of a collage of RIP (Remote Imaging Protocol) graphics I made in the mid-1990s to use on both Paul's Waka Waka BBS and my own BBS -- the now-defunct Toylet Bowl BBS, a photograph of my BBS as it appeared in 1990, a sunrise from home, a split-screen photograph of a vintage JVC RC-M70JW ghetto blaster that I used to have, my best friends Phillip B. and Paul D. sitting in a booth at Godfather's Pizza near my home in Federal Way WA. USA, four screens from the now-defunct television program, "Viva Piñata", and a couple of screen dumps from SpongeBob SquarePants.
The images shown are bluish due to how my digital camera captures video; I defocused the image somewhat to eliminate the Moire patterns (photos viewed on this product have a crisp, natural appearance to them).
That music you hear is the song "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" by Anthrax.
I added "***NSFYE!!!***" to the top of this text because not everybody who views these types of videos is a metalhead.
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TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at the Brookstone website on 12-18-11 (or "18 Dec. 2011" or even "Dec. 18, Twenty Double Sticks" if you prefer), and was received at exactly 6:00pm PST on 12-23-11 (or "23 Dec. 2011" or even "Dec. 23, Twenty Double Sticks" if you prefer).
This will very probably be the last new product to be evaluated in 1991...er...uh...2001...no, that's not it either...let's try 2011.
UPDATE:12-30-11
There appears to be a somewhat significant defect in the display screen; I thought that it might have been a hair, but it did not wipe or scrub away.
UPDATE:12-31-11
That "hair" on the screen really does appear to be a hair, but it's on the inside between the screen and the protective window for it. I figured this out because I observed it shifting positions rather frequently, and got it to disappear by gently but repeatedly tapping the upper edge of the product against the rubbery cover on the steering tiller of my Pride® Celebrity X3 Scooter.
UPDATE:01-10-12
I have noted that I carry this product with me everywhere (and I do mean ***EVERYWHERE!!!***) -- much like American Express, I don't leave home without it.
UPDATE:01-29-12
After I had recharged the battery, on the morning of 01-27-12, the Digital OLED Photo Frame would not turn on. After plugging it back into the USB cable for a couple of more hours, same result. So I looked for a system reset switch (commonly called a "reset button") and found one -- it's under a small opening (hole) just to the left of the USB connection receptacle. After inserting the end of a bent paper clip into the opening and pressing in with what I'd term as "moderate" pressure (approx. 16 oz. of force tops), the unit turned on and started displaying the photographs stored on it in a slide show with a dwell time of 3 seconds {the photographs themselves were not deleted when I used the reset button as I had expected they would be!}. I was easily able to access the main menu and disable the slide show, as I'm not using it at the moment.
So if your Digital OLED Photo Frame goes on the rag for any reason (displays garbage, won't allow you to access the main menu, won't turn on, etc.) give this a try and you might very well meet with success like I did.
UPDATE:02-15-12
My unit seems to have developed a crack on the front window near the upper left corner of its screen; to wit:
This does not in any way affect the functionality of the product, but it's something ya ought ta know about anyway.
PROS:
Much smaller and lighter than other photo "frames"
Photographs appear clear and natural looking (despite the "blueness" of the photos farther up this page)
Uses a rechargeable battery; never have to buy disposables for it
Battery charges very easily from your computer's USB port
Software is easy to use once you get the hang of it
CONS:
There have been numerous reports that the keychain can spontaneously detach (resulting in product loss); see above for one possible solution
MANUFACTURER: Unknown for Brookstone
PRODUCT TYPE: Digital photograph viewer
LAMP TYPE: OLED (organic LED)
No. OF LAMPS: Lots & lots of the little critters
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Momentary pushbuttons for on/off and ctrls
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: Internal Li:ION rechargeable; 3.7 volts 200mAh
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Light splatter-resistance at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡PARA NO DE LOS MOTIVOS DE CRISTO!!!
ACCESSORIES: Removeable keychain, battery, USB connecting cable, PhotoViewer software
SIZE: 1.80" L x 1.90" W x 0.570" D
WEIGHT: Unknown/not equipped to weigh
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE:
WARRANTY: 1 year
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