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Mom Tech for Mother's Day

by Joshua Fruhlinger on May 9, 2007 at 10:41 AM

No idea what to get Mom for Mother's Day this year? Sure, you could be obvious like Dad and get her flowers, or you could get her something she actually needs. With that mission in mind, the Switched staff asked their own Moms what, if anything, they could use make life a little easier. We've selected the perfect gifts based on their responses to bring you this cheat sheet to warming your own Mom's heart this coming holiday.

Dealing with Digital Photos

Mother's Day Wish #1
An Easy-to-Use Photo-Printing Solution

Dear Joshua,

I am struggling with getting pictures off of the digital camera. My wish would be to just be able to put the memory stick directly into the computer and let it automatically transfer the pictures. Then, I could print the pictures to send out. Help!

Love,
Mom


Dear Mom,

I'm giving you something that's even easier to use than a computer: The Sony DPP-FP70 photo printer. It's like having your own photo-processing booth in your home office.

The process is really simple, Mom, so don't be scared! Just pop your memory stick into the unit and you can preview the photos on the printer's screen. You can even touch-up and crop the pictures or correct for red-eye right on the printer. Then you just press the print button and all your snapshots come out looking like standard 4x6 photos like you would get from a developer. If you don't want to get into all that, it even has a one-button touch-up feature that will make your pictures look amazing automatically.

What's more, you can just connect your camera (or any camera that doesn't use a Memory Stick) right to the printer using USB -- you don't even need to use the memory stick if you don't want to.

Happy printing. And get to it -- you owe me pictures of my nieces and nephews!

Love,
Joshua



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