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Photos for Posterity — or not
The digital age is coming for your albums
Once upon a time one could take a photo, send it to grandma and have it proudly displayed on her refrigerator or bulletin board. Maybe even pasted lovingly into an album to pass around during family gatherings, or framed for a corner-table display.
That is so yesterday.
Today’s photos want to be digitized. Wonders of wonders! 100+ photos per day. Maybe 200+, if you flip through fast enough. The digital frame intends to displace the album, the bulletin board and the refrigerator gallery forever. It is not, however, for the faint-hearted.
Once one has purchased a digital frame ($100 and up for the barely acceptable) all one has to do is: Download the app. Create an account. Register your frame. Create passwords. Photograph the QR code to send (digitally) to whomever might be furnishing photographs to your exotic frame. Follow the set-up instructions (see online step-by-step guide.) Figure out a few other digital details along the way — which may or may not be intuitive for grandparents. Connect to wi-fi. (After somehow convincing the Frame app that your wi-fi wants to be its friend, which may or may not happen within a grandparent’s anticipated lifetime.) Find an appropriate location (near an outlet, because the frame wants to be plugged in.) Pray.
This last step is critical.
If all steps are followed correctly, and prayers are answered, photographs in living color will appear in your magic frame. Enjoy.
Or . . . go work on your hopelessly junky disorganized outdated old-fashioned bulletin board.
