Ok..as some may have heard me mention, I am making some digital picture frames out of old laptops.
Building the frame seems to be the easy part.
And sadly, it seems to be the only part people with How-To's focus on.
What I am finding it really hard to do is find the software to run on it.
It seems like there is a lot of software but none to really work for what I want.

The laptop is a pentium with 96mb or ram and 3 gig HD.
I would really prefer to simply burn pictures to a CD, have the laptop boot from the CD with whatever program I use and also display ther pics that I burned to it.......and never even make it to the HD.
If it really needs to go to the HD however, I have 98 on it.

I was wondering if anybody knew of a good program that can handle what I am looking for.

12/17/2007 7:28:12 PM

I made a few DPFs using Slax, a live linux distro.

12/17/2007 7:33:03 PM

Not sure what Slax is and have never used Linux...but I will check it out....thanks.

Any other ideas?

12/17/2007 7:47:50 PM

This may not be something you're interested in but i figured I'd put it out there.

i just read a tutorial the other day on this. They were suggesting to put a wireless card in the laptop and then to use a free service (there are also some you pay for) which links to a flicker account. The article linked to the sites, if you're interested I could probably find them again.

Their example was that if you gave someone one of these you could update the pictures on the account whenever you want and they go into the rotation of the slide show daily when the service downloads the pictures from the flicker account. From what I could tell it seemed like all of the images are stored on the servers of the company providing the service and not on the local machine.

[Edited on December 17, 2007 at 8:11 PM. Reason : .]

12/17/2007 8:06:44 PM

^
I saw that.
And it is a good idea...thanks....
Unfortunately, the house that this will be going to has no high speed internet.
(My parents do not even have a computer.)

12/17/2007 8:48:32 PM

I put a wireless card in one of mine and put a USB thumbdrive in it, to hold the pics. Whenever I wanted to change them I just SSH'd into it and changed the pics. I also made a few different scripts so I could restart it with a weather radar and some other stuff if I wanted to change it up

12/17/2007 8:55:53 PM

I just found the CD I used for my very first DPF. It ran DOS and used LXPIC for the slideshow.

12/19/2007 2:02:25 PM