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Pix-Star can now access pictures stored inside Dropbox!

The Pix-Star Team is very happy to announce the support of Dropbox! From today you can access your photos stored inside Dropbox and display them easily on your Pix-Star photo frame. As we already do for other web albums and … Continue reading

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Why when emailing pictures from my Picasa account, the photos look small on the Pix-Star screen?

Picasa offers this feature that once you are logged into the picasa web account you can choose a picture then email it to any email address including your Pix-Star’s email address. This is a nice feature but be careful when … Continue reading

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How to configure TVersity UPnP/DLNA server to work with my Pix-Star?

Your Pix-Star works ok with TVersity UPnP/DLNA server but a small configuration adjustment is necessary on the TVersity server. Because TVersity by default uses very long URLs to stream medias to the UPnP/DLNA client, Pix-Star is not able to handle … Continue reading

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Is it possible to use my Pix-Star even if I have no Wireless (Wi-Fi) connection at home?

This it is an important question. Yes, even without any wireless connection, your Pix-Star can work normally and all features are active. No problem. It will become a basic photo frame then, playing photos that you put in USB stick, … Continue reading

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Why my Pix-Star photoframe slide show does not show all the pictures, especially Web albums and weather?

As you’ve probably already noticed while using your Pix-Star, it offers many different type of slidehows. You can practically launch any kind of slideshow from just 1 picture, to 1 album or even a combination of albums. Also as the … Continue reading

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Your Pix-Star photoframe is now completely configurable remotely from the web!

Since the first product was launched a few years ago, Pix-Star has been using a very unique approach to simplify the use of a wireless product by computer savvy people by combining the product with a dedicated web site account … Continue reading

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Pix-Star app for Android has now been released, give it a try, it’s free!

The new Pix-Star app for Android has now been released and is available for FREE from the Android Market. From your mobile phone (Android OS only) access the Android market and search for ” Pix-Star “, it should return a … Continue reading

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How to manage the photos stored inside my Pix-Star Photoframe wirelessly from my computer (SAMBA)?

As you know the latest wireless photoframes from Pix-Star (PXT510xxxxx, FotoConnect XD) are equipped with a technology called “SAMBA” which makes your Pix-Star behave like a network disk on your local network (make sure your Pix-Star WiFi connection is properly … Continue reading

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I have a MAC, how to display my photos using UPnP directly on my Pix-Star?

The latest Pix-Star FotoConnect ‘ XD ‘ series support a technology called ‘ UPnP / DLNA ‘ which makes it possible to access photos stored on any compatible device on the network such as, a PC, a MAC or a … Continue reading

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The new Pix-Star Digital Photo Frame FotoConnect XD 10.4 inch WiFi with email address and UPnP is now available!

Available end of June 2011, the new Pix-Star FotoConnect XD 10.4 inch (PXT510WR02) is the new revolutionnary product from the Pix-Star FotoConnect family! 10.4 inch display… Big is beautiful! The new Pix-Star FotoConnect XD 10.4 inch LED LCD displays bigger … Continue reading

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