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RSS/photo frame

Member 007Ben put together a digital photo frame which displays RSS feeds against custom backgrounds. A great use for that old laptop now deemed too slow for active use. Now commenters on Flickr are all asking for a copy of the script he's using with it. -Link

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Digital picture frame (from an old laptop) -Link

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Posted by: beakmyn on February 13, 2008 at 9:09 AM

I made a version using

flickr/webshots desktop wallpaper switcher
Yahoo widgets
*digital clock at 70% transparency, centered on the screen in really big font.
*A 5-day weather forecast in upper left
*A RSS ticker tape along the bottom.

It runs on a sub 300mhz laptop with a stripped down version of XP with 64MB of RAM! It only uses swap when it has to update the wallpaper (once an hour)

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