Category Archives: Hobbies

Every year around this time I get the urge to build a PC or some derivative of it, like picture frames. I probably yearn for the extra heat or the whine of hard disks and fans all around me. Last year I assembled … Continue reading →

My household had this problem where we would run out of some supply, usually in our refrigerator – not the essentials like milk, but things like yogurt or ginger and other stuff like paper napkins. And when it was time … Continue reading →

A few people asked me about configuring gPhotoShow for BartPE. I did it a while back and don’t remember it very well, but the following should give you a fair idea.   The basic idea is to get PEBuilder to copy … Continue reading →

Here is my new digital picture frame running BartPE.     It is quite robust and neater compared to my previous one, which was literally tied down using hanging wire. I used the backing board from the previous frame (which … Continue reading →

Once I had a barebone BartPE Live CD booting my laptop, the next step was to create a customized version with the photo slideshow viewer, amongst other things.   The digital picture frame I built earlier reads photos off a … Continue reading →

Creating a BartPE Live CD is easy.  Point the PE Builder application to the Windows installables, select the Plugins you want installed (networking, anti-virus, Remote Desktop, etc.) and click Build.  It picks the minimal set of binaries off the Windows … Continue reading →

Almost a year-and-a-half after building my first digital picture frame, I decided to make one (or two) more of them.  One I will hang either in my study or elsewhere in my house to display portrait images (the previous frame … Continue reading →

With the laptop dismantled, I now needed a frame to mount it in.  A few days before I had completely dismantled the laptop, I had to make a trip to the local Aaron Brothers for framing a painting.  I hadn’t … Continue reading →

After I had installed all the software I needed to have the picture frame running, the next step was dismantling the laptop.  The primary aim was to remove the LCD panel, reverse it and mount it in a photo/picture frame.  Thus, unless … Continue reading →

Once I had the laptop booted into XP, the next step was getting the right software on it – for rendering the photos and to help me manage it. I started off with Google’s Picasa (which is what I envisioned using … Continue reading →