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anyone know of a good digital picture frame?
shmokes:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 11, 2007, 11:41:36 am ---
The concept of that self updating frame is pretty cool, have to say. I may have to look into building one of those in the spring. I'd much rather have it update from a local source, though, than have to open up the firewall for it, as this one will be local.
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Well . . . it's just a regular laptop running XP and using an IP address, so opening up the firewall for it isn't difficult, and since its only purpose is running a picture frame, I wasn't terribly concerned about it being hacked. But even if you only wanted to update it locally, it's still great to have WiFi and a full Windows OS on it. You can remote desktop into it from another PC and control it just like you were sitting at the thing with a keyboard and mouse attached. I also installed PC Anywhere just for double-protection.
The way I set it up, though, so that it would be somewhat future/idiot-proof, is rather than set it up with a static IP, I set it up on DHCP, but found an XP version of the old winipcfg app that Windows 98 had (starting with Windows 2000 you had to run ipconfig from the command prompt). I put a batch file in the startup folder that runs the winipcfg app at startup, so the machine's IP and MAC addresses will display shortly after the computer boots up, then like 30 seconds later the app is closed by the batch file and the Slickr app starts). That way if my in-laws ever get a new ISP that uses different internal network addresses the frame will still connect up, and if anything needs to be configured (like telling the DHCP server exactly what address to hand out or to connect to the machine remotely to make changes, the information will be easy to find).
JackTucky:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 10, 2007, 01:09:30 am ---You got a link? I just went to circuitcity.com and couldn't find it.
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This one?
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Kodak-SV-811-8-Digital-Photo-Frame-8858946/sem/rpsm/oid/179117/catOid/-16361/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
I'm in the market for one too.
=J
patrickl:
It's too bad the WiFi version costs so much extra (seems about $80 extra). Would be cool to just drag files from your own computer onto the picture frame
AtomSmasher:
I was just at Staples and I noticed they had a 11.3'' digital frame for $130
I have no idea on the specs, but for that size of screen it seems like a pretty good deal regardless
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: JackTucky on December 11, 2007, 04:08:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 10, 2007, 01:09:30 am ---You got a link? I just went to circuitcity.com and couldn't find it.
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This one?
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Kodak-SV-811-8-Digital-Photo-Frame-8858946/sem/rpsm/oid/179117/catOid/-16361/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
I'm in the market for one too.
=J
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Ahh... that's 16:9 aspect and therefore useless to me. I don't want cropped or squished photos.
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