>= Slideshow =

Slideshow lets anyone with a browser automatically see the pictures in your HDA picture directory as a slideshow. Simply put picture folders in the HDA pictures folder:

  <pre><nowiki>\\hda\pictures</nowiki></pre>

Viewing Pictures

There are two ways to do this at the moment:

invoke the Slideshow app directly
use CoolIris (a browser plugin from http://cooliris.com) for a dynamic view of from your pictures on a 3-D wall

Exporting Pictures from Picasa

One feature of Slideshow is that it seamlessly supports Google's Picasa picture folders, including captions !

This is how to create Slideshows from Picasa folders:

In a Picasa picture folder, edit your picture originals and captions as you would normally do
Select all the pictures in a folder that you want to export (note: it's common to forget selecting pictures.)
Right-click on the folder you want to export and click on "Export as HTML page ..."

In the "Export as HTML Page" Window, select your preferred size (800x600 is good enough for typical monitors).
Click on "Browse..." and navigate to the \\hda\pictures network locationm then click on "Next >"