[olug] Hacking a Toshiba PhotoFrame...

[Aric Aasgaard]

Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:

>For Christmas my sisters and I bought a Toshiba PhotoFrame for my mother.
> It uses a third party service on the internet to pull in Facebook, Flicker,
>and other photos we share from our accounts.    A couple weeks ago, we got
>an e-mail from the company that they were no longer providing this service.
>:-(
>
>So, I'm wondering if anyone has any pointers to sites that might have hacked
>similar devices to pull photos from a local system or directly from
>Facebook?  (It says it supports Picasa, but I haven't confirmed if it will
>pull from multiple Picasa albums...)
>
>I think it might be running a stripped-down Linux kernel, but I may be
>mistaken.
>
>Thanks,
>Dan
>
>For those who are interested, the PDF version of the manual is here:
>
>http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/tacpassets-images/models/dmf82xwu/docs/dmf82xwu_om_e.pdf
>
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