Re: Does the Kodak PULSE digital frame w1030s or w1030 work with private RSS feeds.

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Dmitri(cabling-Design.com) had written this in response to
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Fergus McMenemie wrote:

> I want to know if I can
> configure the frame to display pictures based on my own RSS/ATOM feeds.
> Has anybody done this? I want to share my photos with my parents and
> other family members and have absolutely no wish to share them with
> google picasa, facebook, flicker or Kodak.? Some documentation
> describing any peculiarities of RSS feed format or even an example
> would be very gratefully received.

I honestly don't know the specs of the particular photo frame but I just
wanted to say that you shouldn't let a simple thing such as RSS format
stop you. There are plenty of Internet tools for translating feeds from
one format to another, most notably Google's Feedburner (
http://feedburner.google.com/ ) which will let you not only translate from
one format to another but also "clean" an RSS feed by making it
standard-compliant just in case some information in it is encoded wrong or
it just does not pass a standard parser for some reason.

Feedburner's 'Photo Splicer' feature will let you create a
standard-compliant RSS feed out of your Flickr, Buzznet, or Webshots
pictures (why not Google's own Picasa - beats me). But you should be able
to splice to it another feed with pictures from Facebook, for example, if
it's already in RSS format.

You'll just need to point your frame to the Feedburner's RSS address
instead of the original one - should be easy to do in the frame's settings.

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