Digital Photo Keychains for Linux

[Eli Marmor]

Hi,

Do you know all those trendy Digital Photo Keychains?
These cute and tiny digital frames that are sold for 49-79 NIS and are
charged and fed by photos from a PC through USB?

Well, I've always was sure that they use the standard flash disk
protocol with the computer, like all the other players (MP3, MP4, etc.)
and that their disk looks as a drive for your OS and you can just manage
the files there (copy/rename/remove/etc.) just like any other directory
or folder.

I was amazed to find out that these devices require a special software
to manage them.

It means that they don't work with Linux, most of them don't work with
MAC too, and that even the thousands software packages which were
developed for Windows (!) can't access them (because they are not like
"drives" with normal "files", but just a black box which only the user
can access and only through the special software).

Since there are hundreds of models, I can't believe that all of them
use this crazy was of working and that none uses the standard flash
disk protocol.

I'll be glad to hear models that use the standard protocol (like all of
the MP3, MP4, disk-on-key, etc.).

Thanks,
-- 
Eli Marmor
marmor at netmask.it
CEO, Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd.
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