suggestions: laptop based digital photo frame
ric
got a semi dead dell cpi 266mhz laptop left over from all the bits i've
been rebuilding, and was going to make a wireless network-browsing
digital photo frame out of it and hang it on the wall.
it's going to be running win98se or 2000 at a pinch as ram's expensive
for this puppy, so it'll have 64MB in it. all i want it to do is to
look at pics on a network share via a wifi connection, and display them
as a slideshow - i know xp does this out of the box with its
screensaver, but any suggestions for a similar thing for win98, 2000 or
even linux?
ric
Chris 159
"ric" <spam...@infobubble.co.uk> wrote in message
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http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=my+pictures+screen+saver&tg=dl-2001
there might be more if you change the search words
Steve J
Irfanview has a slideshow feature and is licenced as Freeware -
http://www.irfanview.com/.
Works with Win9x and 2000.
Steve
Semach.the.monkey
I was going to do the same thing myself a couple of years ago, but in
the end, it turned out to be a SETI screensaver.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.owen12/apf.htm
I'd be interested to see how yours turns out.
STM
Rob Morley
perseus40...@hotmail.com says...
resources and cut out loads of unnecessery functionality too.
Ric
have actually come across your site before via a google search: nice job.
the bit that's got me scratching my head is the physical mounting of the
guts to the frame. was going to do it with custom metal bands screwed into
existing screwholes on the chassis - any other suggestions?
Semach.the.monkey
>
> have actually come across your site before via a google search: nice
job.
Cool! I didn't realise that it would have shown up in any google
searches.
> the bit that's got me scratching my head is the physical mounting of
the
> guts to the frame. was going to do it with custom metal bands screwed
into
> existing screwholes on the chassis - any other suggestions?
Well, as you can see from the photos there, the screen fitted almost
perfectly in to the frame (Just a slight bit of 'adjustment' with a
Stanley knife), and is held in with the bits that held in the original
glass and backing. The motherboard mounting screw holes are just at the
right distance to screw through into the frame, with some tap washers
(99p for 6 from B&Q) as a spacer. It all just kind of worked.
I did build a second one, although I've not got any photos. For that
one, I used a deep boxy photo frame, like the kind Ikea sell (Can't
remember where I got it from, but the Ikea ones weren't the right size
for me). What I did with this one was to mount the screen on a piece of
hardboard, then had the motherboard mounted on the other side of it.
(again with tap washer spacers). That way the whole thing was kind of
one solid lump that could be put in to the frame, and held in with a
couple of tacks either side.
The trouble is that every laptop motherboard is different, so what works
for one won't work for another. Have a look at the computer section of
my website;
http://www.sowen.com/modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&c
atid=2
and in particular the NotBook. That used to be a Compaq laptop, but
would have been no good at all for using in a picture frame, as it was
too deep and chunky.
One thing that I would say though, is take lots of photos as you are
stripping it down, and don't throw anything away. You'd be surprised as
to how useful some of the bracket things can be when you're rebuilding
it in to something it wasn't designed for.
STM