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Google has begun giving out their AdSense gifts for the 2006 holiday season. WebmasterWorld senior member, incrediBILL, said he received his two days ago. The gift appears to be a digital photo frame, he posted the specification:
Looking for Digital Photo Frame? If you are here to buy a digital photo or picture frame, via Google, we do not sell them, but Buy.com does and here is a link to Buy.com. Find Digital Photo Frames at Buy.com
* 3.6 inch TFT digital photo frame
* 960 x 240 TFT screen, 16 mega-color
* Picture: JPG format
* Audio: MP3, WMA, WAV and records WAV itself
* Video: ASF only
* Media: Internal memory and SD card, comes with sample slideshow in memory
* USB 1.1 interface
* Power: 4 AA batteries or USB 5V or AC/DC power adapter
There are no pictures of the photo frame as of yet, as soon as I get one, Ill update this post or write a new one.
Last year, Google gave out holiday gifts with a wireless mouse, usb memory stick, 4 port hub, and more, he is a picture.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
Comments:
Chris Beasley
11/24/2006 02:34 pm
Nice, they get better every year.
Vincent
11/24/2006 04:31 pm
How much do you have to earn to be on their gift list? $500/month? $5000/month?
ERICA
11/27/2006 02:29 am
I HAVE THE DIDITAL PHOTO FRAME PIC, BECAUSE IT WAS PRODUCED IN OUR COMPANY
Ryan
11/27/2006 07:33 pm
great gift..who manufactures these i want to get for my staff
CashNShit
11/28/2006 02:01 am
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=186728
Jeff
11/28/2006 06:13 am
Anyone figure out what kind of crazy JPG format this uses? Nothing I export from photoshop seems to do the trick, and the manual conversion program is too much hassle to do 1 by 1.
Dave Naffziger
11/28/2006 04:31 pm
You can find a photo here: http://www.naffziger.net/blog/index.php/2006/11/27/googles-2006-holiday-gift/
Louis
11/28/2006 09:27 pm
Alot more pictures here: http://www2.pimpmyspace.org/google-digital-photo-frame.html
Robert
12/02/2006 03:09 am
Yes, cool gift, plugged mine in, played around with the interface some. Then started to smell burning plastic. Screen turned all white and then turned off. Can't get it to cut back on. Oh well, at least my mouse etc from last year still works.
rodzilla
12/03/2006 09:18 pm
I got one of these and tried to copy pictures to it with no luck. I also managed to delete all the photos on it and now get a no file found error. Unfortunately the mini cd that came with it won't run. Is there software for this. None of the photos formats that I would expect to work does.
DQ
12/05/2006 12:10 am
I can’t get images out of Photoshop or Picasa to work either. I can only transfer the original photo from my digital camera. Lame! I found a software product called TVwriter which got it to work… but its not free and is over US$50! Anyone…?
DQ
12/06/2006 06:29 pm
Just read here: http://www.googlecommunity.com/about15484.html that you can use the Windows XP Image Resizer PowerToy. I haven’t tried… but I will soon!
Brad Knowles
12/10/2006 11:00 pm
Folks, I just received in the mail what I believe to be a Google digital photo frame, but I'm not an AdSense advertiser, and I have no reason to believe that they would have a valid reason to be sending this device to me. I believe that this probably was intended for someone else and somehow mistakenly delivered to me, and I'd like to try to find out what the contact address is for the folks at Google who sent them. Do you have any information that might help me track down the appropriate people at Google that I can talk to about this?
No Name
12/21/2006 10:24 pm
Quoting Vincent: How much do you have to earn to be on their gift list? $500/month? $5000/month? ---- I don't know what the threshold is, but I spent around $90K this year and I got one. It’s a neat-o device, but at first it was a bit puzzling. You need to use either MSPaint, Imagicon or the crappy SunPlus transcoding software that comes with the frame to ensure the device will accept your JPG files. Oh, and turn it OFF and ON after you transfer the photos, or it will still display an error.
No Name
12/28/2006 01:09 am
I got one of these too. I spent over $200k last year on Google and all I got was a stupid digital photo frame. How much does one need to spend to get an Ipod.
Tag
03/23/2008 10:34 am
Wow thats a lot of money