Comments on: Old Laptop –> Digital Picture Frame

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:46:35 +0000

Hey!
I have an old Dell inspiron 8100 I want to use, but have a few questions.

Do I delete everything by right clicking on the hard drive then clicking format??
How would I use this OS and set up something so I can wirelessly add photos from my current laptop? instead of using a USB key…

e-mail me back if you have time, or answers.

Thanks!

-Jess

By: Adam Franco

Adam Franco — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:59:57 +0000

@Sluggy My picture frame fell off the wall a few years ago and is not currently operational, so I haven't tested this out. The Feh Features page does list the following abilities:

In-place editing
Rotate images in place for quick re-orientation. *new* For jpegs, rotation is lossless using the lossless JPEG rotation algorithms. Exif information is also preserved.

As to whether or not the lossless rotation can occur based on EXIF tags; I have no idea.

By: Sluggy

Sluggy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:32:08 +0000

Hi,

I was able to create my own picture frame from an old Celeron Thinkpad using Slitaz Linux. With feh, is there an option that allows auto rotating of images based on the EXIF information?

By: Adam Franco

Adam Franco — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:31 +0000

@Stephen

Thanks for the notice. I must have deleted the images when doing some house-cleaning on the server. They are back now.

- Adam

By: Linux - Based Digital Picture Frames | iChat Do It Yourself

Linux - Based Digital Picture Frames | iChat Do It Yourself — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:26:56 +0000

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By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:29:06 +0000

I cannot see any of the images on this page. I have tried Firefox and IE. Do I have a problem or is it the page?

Stephen

By: VCSekhar Parepalli

VCSekhar Parepalli — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:06:23 +0000

Hi Adam,
I came across your article via Google Search results. I have an old Digital HiNote VP laptop with Pentium 100 Mhz CPU on it and a total HDisk space of 1G on it and RAM of 32 MB on it.

Could you please help me point to any steps on turning this into a Digital Photo Frame?

I could follow yours but looks like you have a 2 G HDisk unlike mine, so am not sure how to proceed here. Also just to let you know-> the pictures at http://www.adamfranco.com/archives/category/computers-and-technology/hardware are not downloading and are showing X place holders in place of the images.

Thanks in advance,

By: Lio

Lio — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:15:13 +0000

I’ve done a prety similar work… but under dos

By: Kat Von D

Kat Von D — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:22:28 +0000

Kat Von D…

I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….

By: Matt J

Matt J — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:38:05 +0000

I’m getting syntax errors on your picframe script.
Everytime I do /etc/init.d/picframe start its comes up with a syntax error that says the stop command does not exist.