Comments on: Eeepc picture frame

By: Digital LCD Frame

Digital LCD Frame — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:34:53 +0000

I would keep the eeepc and buy a digital lcd frame that has touch screen. But I guess this would be a nice project for a hobbyist with money to waste.

By: Gaspard de Coligny

Gaspard de Coligny — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:45:24 +0000

>>Oh /please/… the low-end digital picture frames are nearly worse than useless.

Thay DO display pictures… My loo too is next to useless, except for taking a dump.

Doing 1 thing well is quite a good idea even after 15 year of “multitasking” brainwashing.

And yes, at least in developped countries, digital picture frames have nice screens.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:44:53 +0000

@ vonskippy

I know a shop nearby that is selling the Linux 701 for under $300 AU

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:58:16 +0000

“they are available pretty cheap”

Where? And define cheap?

By: ys

ys — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:34:41 +0000

can you tell me what software used on the picture frame? slideshow with weather and clock

By: MarkyB86

MarkyB86 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:28:34 +0000

That’s no ordinary sheet metal. Its aluminum. Aluminum doesn’t hold heat very well, so i’m guessing its main use is to not pass the heat to your lap, of which past years have complained so frequently of killing sperm, eggs, etc.
the damn eee is cheap plastic. It would probably melt if not for that flimsy aluminum.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:35:13 +0000

Uh yeah, that whole supercritical sheet metal issue aside (?) (that case ain’t no farady cage kids)

this does seem like overkill unless you stretch the meaning of the term “digital photo frame” or severely under-use the hardware.

It’s far better than the thing not being used at all I’ll agree.
(personally i would have gone robot, but that’s me)

By: ac7zl

ac7zl — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:56:12 +0000

barry99705:

Perhaps you should take another look at

http://awooga.nl/g/image/35403-2/DSC01757.JPG

I see shielding *all over* the place! In addition to a large sheet metal shield at the lower right of the photo, it is evident that that the interior of the entire housing either contains a metal liner, or is coated with conductive material of some kind. (mid and upper-left of photo.)

why do *you* think the manufacturers put that in there? I stand by my original comments.

barry99705 said:

>There’s actually very little sheet metal in an
>eeepc. Mostly just the bottom of the keyboard.

By: cxcxzcv

cxcxzcv — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:15:52 +0000

what a waste of eepc :<

By: sarsface

sarsface — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:41:49 +0000

If you were to add the touchscreen kit to this you could have a nice little counter-top PC.

By: barry99705

barry99705 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:21:57 +0000

@ac7zl
There’s actually very little sheet metal in an eeepc. Mostly just the bottom of the keyboard.

By: yurijm

yurijm — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:59:05 +0000

My eee pc blew up =(

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:33:49 +0000

I was thinking about doing something like this. What appealed to me was the networking side of it. You could create a shared folder on the Eee PC and just connect another laptop to it, send photos (wirelessly), and it would show them on screen. Removes the need for a memory card all together!

Also, if it were me, I would have added touch screen capability, seeing as the kits for this model are going so cheap on eBay.

By: therian

therian — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:41:35 +0000

not a good idea during economic crisis

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:59:36 +0000

@m0535
Any of the “widgets” type things should give you what most of what you want;
Yahoo! Widgets (for Windows)
Google Desktop (for Windows)
Konfabulator (for UN*X + XWindows)
Vista (might be a bit heavy) has them built in.

It’s fairly easy to write new or modify widgets if there’s not one that does exactly what you need.