Think twice before getting your geek a digital picture frame

Digital picture frames. There are no end to them. Around this time, many vendors are pushing the frames as a great geek gift.

I’m a geek, I fell for it, and am now over the idea of digital picture frames. Let’s look at what these things promise. You can view all of your photos in such a small footprint. Get a Wi-Fi enabled one and you can subscribe to RSS feeds of people’s pictures. Some even allow you to do picture correction right from the frame.

Then there’s real life. Keep reading to see where this rant goes.