Chumby and Photoframe
I have become quite enamored of the chumby (www.chumby.com to find out more). And in particular I am enjoying the photoframe widget created by my friends over at discarded ideas (www.discarded-ideas.org). As a PC user I could not use the Linux script he offered to create the xml file that his program uses (and anyway my photos are stored in many sub directories so it would not work for me!) in addition my photos are quite large (4-8 mega pixels) and so would have taken a while to download even over my internal network. So I created chumbify (click here to download) this program makes a copy of all of your photos resized to 320x240 (the chumby native resolution) and also generates the images.xml that photoframe requires. Do not forget to add the crossdomain.xml file that flash requires to the ROOT directory of the server as described on the discarded ideas website. Chumbify is offered as freeware and I will happily provide the source code to anyone who is curious.





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