Digital Photo Frame as Mini Monitor..?

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Digital Photo Frame as Mini Monitor..?

Anyone have a digital photo frame as a secondary mini monitor....?....

I have been toying with the idea of have a small monitor for IM's or email application or a place to park your tool pallets for Illustrator or PhotoShop...

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 2.16Ghz 3GB ram Intel Due

Posted on Apr 4, 2009 10:23 PM

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Apr 4, 2009 10:55 PM in response to psa_mac

Does the frame actually have a live input? The ones I've seen only have a slot for a memory card, and/or a USB connector for transferring the photos to onboard storage.

Do you happen to have an old unused PC laptop?

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Apr 5, 2009 7:15 AM in response to Kenichi Watanabe

Kenichi Watanabe wrote:
Does the frame actually have a live input? The ones I've seen only have a slot for a memory card, and/or a USB connector for transferring the photos to onboard storage.

Do you happen to have an old unused PC laptop?

I have seen this in regards to connecting via USB.....DisplayLink
http://www.displaylink.com/support/mac_downloads.html

I do have a 12 in iBook but I'm not interesting in ScreenRecycle...if that's what you are leading too... http://www.screenrecycler.com/home.html

I want something like this that is adjustable but in a 10 in size....
http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/nanovisionmimodisplays.jpg

any ideas...?
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Apr 5, 2009 11:25 AM in response to psa_mac

I'm not sure how DisplayLink would help with a photo frame. The photo frame would still need video input of some type.

There are many small LCD displays of that size that are intended for car installation. They often connect over VGA at 800x600 or 1024x768.

[for example|http://cgi.ebay.com/8-VGA-TFT-LCD-Touch-Screen-Monitor-for-Car-PC-GPS-U 3 W0QQitemZ220388997996QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Input_Peripherals?hash=item2203889979 96&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&trkparms=72%3A1240%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A4% 7C294%3A50]

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Apr 5, 2009 12:31 PM in response to Kenichi Watanabe

Yeah I've seen those....but there are some sleeker looking digital photo frames out there that would look better on my desk....

If I understand it right DisplayLink works via USB so aslong as there is a USB port on the Digital Photo Frame it can be used as a additional monitor.

found this....

http://www.everythingusb.com/samsung-spf-105p-digital-photo-frame-15850.html

this shows a Mac Mini running a Samsung SPF-105P 10" but it also states "the Mac drivers available from DisplayLink did not work"...scroll down to the section named "Photo Frame as UbiSync USB Monitor"

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Apr 5, 2009 12:40 PM in response to psa_mac

Let's hope Samsung adds Mac support.

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