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 RSS providers the content is updated several times a day. This means when you add a photo inside one of your Dropbox folder it will be synchronised on your pix-star photo frame AUTOMATICALLY without any action from your side!

Enjoy your Pix-Star and Dropbox!

Pix-Star photo android app

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 link to download the app directly on your mobile phone.

Access Pix-Star Frame viewer on Android Market

Once installed you can:

• Access your frame or your family members’ frame content stored inside pix-star.com, including all web albums not only pix-star album but also all RSS albums (Picasa, Facebook, etc…) that have been linked to the frame;
• From the mobile phone when you are in the camera mode you can directly share  pictures to the Pix-Star frames configured inside the app;
• This app support multiple frames login/access meaning that from 1 single app from your mobile you can access several Pix-Star frames;
• You can launch a slide show on your phone of your frame albums. The slide show is configurable with many type of transitions, slide duration and random mode.

This app becomes very convenient when you are on-the-go to show your pictures to your friends. No need to be at home with your Pix-Star frame by your side to share your best moments. Keep your Pix-Star photo frame in your pocket with this Android companion app!

Also if you manage the frame of your parents, grandparents or other family members you can access their account and visualise the pictures stored there and provide some help to them if necessary.

10.4 inch display… Big is beautiful!

The new Pix-Star FotoConnect XD 10.4 inch LED LCD displays bigger and better images with crisper, brighter and more natural colours.

Its 4:3 ratio display is perfectly suited for digital camera photos as they appear in full screen… no more black strips!

Enjoy the best shots of your family in full screen, full resolution. Small is delightful… but BIG is simply BEAUTIFUL!

Pix-Star FotoConnect XD 10.4 in. 800x600 ratio 4:3 Front View with Remote Control

Sharing, sharing, sharing… RECEIVING and SENDING photos by email has never been so easy!

Pix-Star invented the concept of “the frame with an email address” several years ago. Since then it has been the easiest way to share pictures with your family directly from the frame.

Thanks to its advanced contact list management, sending pictures from the frame to your friends requires just one click.

Even with ease of use you never have to sacrifice security with advanced email filtering options, which are easily configured in your Pix-Star web account.

Access your pictures from the largest selection of online picture storage providers

Pix-Star offers one of the most comprehensive support for online album providers.

We currently offer access to more than 20 providers and our team is always adding new providers. Here are some of the online picture storage providers you’ll be able to access with your Pix-Star: Picasa, Facebook, Smugmug, Shutterfly, FlickR, Mobile Me, Koffeephoto, etc… just to name a few. If you have recommendations for new providers, let us know and we’ll add them quickly.

UPnP-DLNA support allows easy access to pictures stored on your local computer

Pix-Star has always been about accessing pictures wirelessly from different sources.

In addition to accessing your pictures stored in online web albums, you can now use your Pix-Star to display photos stored on your local network, on your PC (Windows 7 and above), Macintosh or any compatible NAS server. You no longer need to copy or transfer pictures to the frame, you can easily browse through your Pix-Star menu, find your device in the list, click PLAY and your photos will begin to display in streaming mode.

Access thousands of pictures from your Pix-Star in just one click!

Pix-Star FotoConnect XD 10.4 in. - Back View with VESA mount compatibility

Other unique features…

- Website and device user interface supports 8 languages;
- Customizable options which allow the screen to automatically switch on and off (energy saving);
- Slide show options that support random mode and several different transition types.
- Etc…

]]> http://blog.pix-star.com/2011/06/29/le-nouveau-pix-star-fotoconnect-xd-10-pouces-wifi-email-upnp-est-disponible/feed/lang/en/ 0 http://blog.pix-star.com/2011/06/06/pix-star-is-now-available-in-japan/ http://blog.pix-star.com/2011/06/06/pix-star-is-now-available-in-japan/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:22:17 +0000 Pixstar http://blog.pix-star.com/?p=393 Continue reading →]]> All the Pix-Star Team is very happy to announce that, starting from today, Pix-Star is available for sale on the Japanese market.

The complete www.pix-star.com web site is now available in Japanese and the frame’s user interface has also been localised in Japanese language.

Currently 2 web sites are selling the product that you can find on these links:

Pix-Star at Koffeephoto Japan

Pix-Star at Inkjet Japan

Enjoy your Pix-Star, in Japan too!

Pix-Star received the best evaluation for the quality of its screen and picture colors, the simplicity of configuration and use, as well as the comprehensive set of online services it provides.

Pix-Star Connected photoframes review january 2011 by 01NET

Both products offer the same features that made the previous FotoConnect popular, but these new models have a sleek, thin and stylish new design.

Features include:

- Photo-mail reception

- Ability to send photo-mail from the frame with automatic contact list

- Access to more than 20 web albums and RSS photo feeds directly from the frame

- Web Radio (10-inch only)

- Native support for Framechannel

- Weather forecast, news and other information on the frame

- Extreme ease of use and setup

- High resolution LCD in 800 x 600 pixels 4:3 for the 8 inch and 800 x 480 pixels 16:10 for the 10 inch

- FREE web site storage and management for each frame, etc.

Both products are available immediately from our web site and will soon be available from selected retailers.

Download the Goojet application to your mobile phone and use the Pix-Star module to share your pictures from your Goojet albums directly with any other Pix-Star frame.

Powerful and easy to use, this Goojet feature will give you the opportunity to add text to your pictures and even create your own digital postcards directly from the Goojet’s mobile interface.

The Goojet and Pix-Star partnership is facilitating the exchange of digital pictures with your community and between your mobile phone and your wireless digital picture frame.

How does it work?

How to subscribe and download the application?

A World of Possibilities is now accessible directly from your Pix-Star photoframe, from RSS news, various photo providers, sports news, tech news, etc. All of these are updated regularly and are AUTOMATICALLY added to your frame everyday !

Just log on to your Pix-Star web management section and choose the “framechannel” link on the LEFT menu, then follow the step-by-step instructions to configure your Pix-Star with your framechannel account.

We have also improved visibility and ease-of-use elements of the personal frame management section.

The Pix-Star Team hopes you like it!

When the picture you want to send is on the slide show, simply press the share button on the remote control and choose an email address (as you normally would when sending an email) using this format:

06xxxxxxxx@orange.com

where 06xxxxxxxx is the recipient’s mobile number.

PLEASE NOTE: At the moment, you can only send pictures to mobile numbers through the ORANGE network in FRANCE.

The picture will arrive on the mobile phone within a couple of minutes.

With Pix-Star, sending a picture from the frame to mobile phones by MMS is as easy as sending an email!