Sizzlin’ Summer Sweeps #Giveaway Day 26: CEIVA Digital Photo Frame Bundle $179 RTV (ends 8/16)

This post is part of the Sizzlin’ Summer Sweeps – 31 Days of Giveaways for July 2010, brought to you by Crazy Coupon Mommy and Sisterly Savings! Make sure you check out all the other awesome giveaways you can enter!

As Grandparents should be, my parents are just OBSESSED with Whistler. My mom takes endless videos of him sleeping, staring off into space, eating, pooping – you name it! She also calls me daily asking me to send her more videos to look at because she misses him. It’s so stinkin cute! So when I ran across CEIVA Digital Photo Frames online, I just *knew* I had to try it out.

You see, they aren’t your ordinary digital picture frame where it just displays the photos you load onto it – it’s highly unique in that its *connected*. No, I don’t mean the frame can get you front of the line privileges at the best clubs in Hollywood (but that would be funny, wouldn’t it??!?!?). I mean that not only can the frame display the pics you load onto it with a memory card like traditional digital frames, but it can receive pictures on the fly too!

This is just perfect for my mom because I can surprise her as often as I want by sending a new picture to the frame – and she calls as soon as she walks by and notices. I can do this from my computer, from another CEIVA frame or even from my cell phone! We were at Lowe’s the other day and Ben had Whistler on his shoulders.

The baby kept licking his head (tooo cute!) so I took this picture with my cell phone and then sent it to the CEIVA frame sitting at my parent’s house. My mom called within the hour just laughing and asking about the new picture she just saw.  How cool is that!??!

(My parents have it set up amongst the old school picture frames in their livingroom)

I’m sure you’re wondering how this works.  Well, it’s pretty ingenious (and very easy to set up too!).  You don’t even need a computer for it to work – as a matter of fact, you don’t even need to have internet access!  The key to making this work is CEIVA’s patented PicturePlan® Photo Delivery Service and that the frame is network ready.  You can plug it into your home network and internet (with a cable or wirelessly via WI-FI with the included wireless key) or if you’re still in the dark ages, you can connect through your home phone line too.  This enables you to be able to:

1. stream pictures directly from your computer to the frame (it can connect to your computer and display pictures from any shared folder on your computer that you want *without* having to copy them onto a card and move them manually!)
2. receive pictures that have been uploaded to your online CEIVA account
3. receive pictures that have been sent to your CEIVA frame’s email address (so anyone can send pictures directly to your frame!)
4. send pictures from your frame to any other CEIVA frame that you have been invited to

And if you think that’s cool – there is even more that this frame can do!

1. You can personalize your photos after using the online uploader to add borders, bubbles, stickers, etc.
2. Create and send customized photo greetings and holiday cards to arrive on any day you choose
3. Add a fun countdown to any event (like the one I made below!)
4. Add weather, news, sports, horoscopes and dozens of other Channels™ for daily delivery

Product Features

The CEIVA Pro 80 Digital Photo Frame Features:

• *High-res 8″ display
• *Interchangeable faceplates
• *Daily automatic display of 60 new photos from friends and family with every PicturePlan update – you don’t have to do a thing.
• *Supports Media Server connection over a home wireless network; stream photos directly from your Mac or PC to enjoy on your frame.
• *Uses built-in memory card reader to see all your photos from a camera memory card.
• *Send photos from Facebook, Picasa, iPhone, iPhoto, email, or camera phone with CEIVA Sender™ and CEIVAmobile™ plugins and software.
• *PicturePlan® photo delivery service required – frame comes bundled with one year
• *Connects through Wi-Fi or ordinary phone line; you don’t even need a computer to receive photos from friends and family. (Broadband adapter also available.)
• *Free invitations for guests to send photos from anywhere in the world
• *Unlimited photo storage and customization on www.ceiva.com, including channel selections (news, weather, calendar, sports & more), photo editing applications and greeting cards.
• *Uses CEIVA True-to-Photo™ image and color-enhancing technology for optimal photo display quality – no cropping, squishing or stretching.
• *Comes with interchangeable black and wood finishes to match any décor; custom skin designs optional via skinit.com
• *High-resolution, TFT-LCD Active Matrix screen, viewable from virtually every angle
• *Easy-to-use on-screen menu to control display modes, rotation and deletion, slideshow transition and timing, screen on and off times and more.

This would really make a great, unique Christmas gift for *anyone* – especially that special somebody that already has everything and is hard to shop for.  Now that I gave ours to my parents, I’m sure we’ll have to get all the other grandparents and great-grandparents set up too!

Wanna win it?

The folks over at CEIVA have generously offered a giveaway for two lucky Crazy Coupon Mommy/Sisterly Savings readers to win! (One winner will be picked at each website, so be sure to enter the giveaway on BOTH to double your chances!)

The CEIVA Pro80 Starter Pack which includes: the CEIVA Pro 80 Digital Photo Frame™ plus 1 Year of PicturePlan® Photo Delivery Service!!  ($179.99 RTV!)

How do I enter?

PLEASE follow directions!! Entering the giveaway is not hard – but if you do not complete the MANDATORY entry FIRST, your comments/entries will be deleted. If you have any questions about how to enter, please contact me…or just look at the comments above you and you will get the idea!

Just complete each of the following tasks and leave a comment for your entry(s)! Please leave one comment per task completed. (ie, if you do three of the following, you should leave three SEPARATE comments) Must be over 18 to enter. US residents only.

MANDATORY ENTRY – You MUST do this FIRST. If you do not do this, none of the other entries below will count and they WILL BE DELETED.

1. Please visit the CEIVA website then, come back here and let me know what you would do with the frame if you won – keep it or give it to someone special!

LOTS OF WAYS TO GET BONUS ENTRIES!! Once you have completed the above mandatory entry, you can do as many of the below as you like for extra entries Good luck!

(If you already are a subscriber, follow on Twitter or like on Facebook, that counts as one entry, so be sure to leave a comment saying you already do so!)

1. Subscribe to Crazy Coupon Mommy via RSS Reader or email
2. Subscribe to SisterlySavings via RSS Reader or email
3. Follow CEIVA on Twitter
4. Follow CCM on Twitter
5. Follow SS on Twitter
6. Tweet about this giveaway (just click on the retweet button at the very top right corner of this page – all the way up at the top! You can do this daily for extra entries! Just leave a comment each day you complete this task)
7. “Like” CEIVA on Facebook AND be sure to let them know CrazyCouponMommy sent you and thank them for sponsoring this giveaway by leaving a post on their wall!
8. “Like” SS on Facebook
9. “Like” CCM on Facebook
10. Share this giveaway on Facebook by clicking on the Share button below in the comment form!
11. Share this giveaway on Google by clicking on the Buzz button below in the comment form!
12. Vote for me on TopMommyBlogs (Be sure to click on words that say “Click here to vote”. You can do this daily for extra entries! Just leave a comment each date you vote.)
13. Vote for Whistler here (You can do this daily for extra entries! Just leave a comment each date you vote.)
14. Become a public follower of Crazy Coupon Mommy (Scroll all the way down to bottom of this page and look for this button
15. Blog about this giveaway and leave a comment with a link to your blog post (this earns you 3 entries! Be sure to leave a separate comment for each!)
16. Got a blog or webpage? Place my link button on your site and leave the URL of where I can see it.

***IMPORTANT*** You need to leave a separate comment for each of the above that you complete. Each comment acts as one entry, so if you only leave one comment saying “I did 1-3 above” then you’ll only get ONE entry instead of the 3 you deserve!

Contest will end 8/16/ 2010 at 11:59pm PST. The winner will be chosen randomly via computer using “And the Winner is…” WordPress Plugin or Random.org. Winner will be notified by a blog post (so be sure to subscribe to my newsletter so that you don’t miss the winner announcement!). Winner must respond within 48 hours or another random winner will be chosen.

Many thanks to CEIVA who provided me with a sample for the purpose of this review, as well as one prize package to giveaway to a randomly selected winner. I was not required to write a positive review and no other type of compensation was received. My reviews are always 100% honest and 100% my own.

Wanna double your chances of winning?  Be sure to enter the giveaway for a second CEIVA prize pack over at Sisterly Savings too!

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