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Building a “Walltop” Electronic Picture Frame

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¢.