An old laptop needn’t be a useless lump of junk - it can be turned into a digital picture frame!
This article from
GRYNX appeared earlier today on
Slashdot, and explains step-by-step how the author turned an old Dell Latitude into an elite picture frame, using the freeware
IrfanView package to provide slideshows. The laptop didn’t have a hard disk, so the cunning fellow mounted a network share over his wireless network to provide the images.
Total cost? Apparently about €21.
PC World US has, perhaps a little prematurely, released its definitive list of
The 100 Best Products of 2005.
Straight in at the deep end, the Number One product is…
Mozilla Firefox. Their glowing synopsis:
Let the browser wars begin anew: This open-source program is streamlined, customizable, and just plain better. No wonder it has attracted millions of users in just a few months. Is it merely a coincidence that Microsoft finally plans to give the aging Internet Explorer the major overhaul it has needed for years?
The list is split into several categories: PCs and Peripherals; Monitors and TVs; Office Software; Digital Photography; Security ; Printing and Publishing; Storage and Backup; Mobile Tools; Web; and Consumer Electronics. You can of course view
the whole list of 100 products.
Adorning the Top Ten are gems like
Gmail (#2),
Skype (#8), and
Apple OSX Tiger (#3).
Hot on the heels of the
first video release from Kevin Rose and Dan Huard comes this second episode of
Systm. In this installment, the pair build and configure a cheap “media centre” PC using free software such as
KnoppMyth and
MythTV. Torrent links below:
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