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Offline cooldogTopic starter

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info board
« on: February 09, 2009, 06:48:48 PM »
hey guys,

my dad was telling me that he was offered by a company to instal a "info board" in the front of his office.
the info board as he explained is a TV screen being used as a computer monitor displaying the weather, pictures, announcments, ect
the info board was to expencive for his company but i was wondering what programs whould be being used to collect data from the internet like weather and display it, or to display announcments that your put into the computer. i looked into useing yahoo widgets and also vista gadets but they are to small to cover the screen and still be seen from a distance (4ft)
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Re: info board
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2009, 07:32:16 PM »
Get a cheap projector and a video card in the computer that can output S-Video then just use the projector as a second monitor
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Re: info board
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2009, 01:04:54 AM »
If I were to write a software to be used on such "info boards" I'd probably do something based on an HTML Browser so I'd get grate flexibility in showing up text and animations (flash). Just imagine a Linux computer that boots up and loads a web-page into a JavaScript enabled browser. It's enough!

If you think of the "info board" as just an web browser and the displayed text as just an other HTML page, I'm sure you'd find a way to display the wether :) If not, google can help :D
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Re: info board
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2009, 01:39:02 AM »
In a similar vein to the above idea:

I'd probably use perl daemons to pull data from sources into a database at regular intervals and then use a customizable php gui to display data from these modules. That way you could view your infoboard from any computer with an internet connection.
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