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Making the eFrame more interesting

Making the eFrame more interesting

th {border: 1px solid #aaa;background-color:#e0e0e0;} td {border: 1px solid #ccc;background-color:#f0f0f0;} In my last post I gave my first impressions of the BT eFrame1000 – a wifi equipped digital photo frame, and I hinted that I’d started to investigate how to exploit a feature that’s intended for streaming Flickr photo albums so that I could view [...]

BT eFrame 1000: First thoughts

BT eFrame 1000: First thoughts

This week I bought a digital photo frame. I’ve been tempted to get one of these for a while but been put off until now for a few reasons: The “affordable” screens are either very small or very low resolution (or both). I run XBMC on my old Xbox so can view every photo I’ve [...]

XBMChumby sourcecode is now public

It’s taken me a while I’ll admit but I’ve just got around to releasing the sourcecode for the XBMChumby widget I wrote which displays the XBMC “Now Playing” queue on the Chumby. I decided early on that my very basic skills as a flash/ActionScript developer weren’t up to developing this to it’s full potential so [...]

My new phone – HTC S710

My new phone – HTC S710

I ordered an HTC S710 last week (arrived Friday) on the BT Total Broadband Anywhere package. It’s a Windows Mobile 6 Standard smartphone (no touch screen, but a nice slide-out qwerty keyboard). I’ve used the PocketPC OS before on PDAs but never on a phone and so I had the obvious concerns about running a [...]

My first Chumby widget: XBMChumby

My first Chumby widget: XBMChumby

Intro I’ve created a Chumby widget to act as a basic remote display for XBMC. I’ve been using it and reworking it over the last couple of weeks and I think it’s now in a state where I can make it available for others to try. It works by retreiving an RSS feed from the [...]