A while back, wanting to add a stock quote display to my office without using precious real estate on the three Dell displays attached to the HackPro, I pulled an old MSI Barebone computer out of storage and added an inexpensive (Hyundai!) 21.5″ LCD display. More of an art work thing than anything else – it’s not like I stare at a ticker all day. The MSI had proved too slow for its intended role as a movie server and had been replaced by a MacMini. But for streaming stock quotes, a low data volume application, it proves ideal. The display, which is 1920 x 1080 and includes a pair of (awful) speakers ran me all of $150. Adding a $15 VESA mounting plate and a few minutes with a stud finder and drill and the display was up on the wall.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nOn the sofaback, the cheap Hyundai display.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
A few moments in iPhoto and I had my collection of Renaissance art pictures converted to a slide show and moved over to the Barebone. Now, at weekends, when it’s resting, it displays Caravaggio, Raphael and Titian. What could be nicer?<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nThe 21.5″ display on the wall.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
The next one will have to be 42″, just as I expected five years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prints are dying. Almost five years ago I wrote of The photo gallery of the future, which would use a large screen display to show changing art work. A while back, wanting to add a stock quote display to my office without using precious real estate on the three Dell displays attached to the HackPro, … Continue reading Tomorrow’s photo gallery realized<\/span>