Sharing photos with the great grandparents

[Rain]

For the generation that is computer illiterate, what are the options for sharing photos?

Does anyone make an easy to use photo frame that can be FTP'd to?

What have you guys run across?
Rain

[samintx]

I see many of the photo frames in the nursing homes where I am an Ombudsman. You only have to flip a switch after you get them set up.

Do check previous posts because when I asked about brands some had trojan horsesor such in the software it was reported.

[karsen]

If they have a Mac use .Mac and set them up with the .Mac photo screensaver.

[Rain]

This worth it?

www.presto155.com

[dmann]

If you want to go the printed route, you can upload your pics to Walgreen's website and prints can be picked up at any location in the country.

Gee, my 2nd post about Walgreen's photo service this morning... I promise, I don't work for them!

DM

[Don Kiyoti]

Why not print the photos, put them in a nice album and send that to your great-grandparents?

[Zoidberg]

I know what Rain's saying; it would be great for them to have a photo frame, hooked up to a phone line, say, that would logon to a server every night, and load up new photos. When they wake up in the morning, there'd be a bunch of new photos cycling on it for them to see. Like a present every morning.

Of course, a screen saver on an iMac linked to a .Mac shared deal would be the same thing, but a wee bit pricier, eh? (Assuming they don't have a cable/DSL modem, which they likely don't, don't have an iMac, etc.)

An occasional printed album with a bunch of new photos -- either the cheaper route of prints & a simple album or a fancy iPhoto album -- is a great surprise as well...

[ztirffritz]

OS X used to have a screen saver that would automatically download photos from .Mac. I had an idea to buy an old Mac Mini, conntect it to an old LCD screen and mount them to a wall. My parents have WiFi, though they don't really understand how it works. The plan was to have the screen saver on ALL the time and it would periodically go out to the net and download new photos as I uploaded them. It was a good plan. I never tested it though.

[deckeda]

[quote Rain] ... Does anyone make an easy to use photo frame that can be FTP'd to?
There's a thread here from a few days ago about WiFi frames I think. eStarling and some other brands can accept images from RSS feeds, and the eStarling can even be emailed-to. The idea is really in infancy now, as most frames' interfaces can make it tough for even a geek to setup.

[Rain]

so the wifi frames are still problematic?