Learn how to Go from dusty photo albums to live-streaming memories! Before: dusty albums, buried in the back of dusty closets. After: hundreds of photos streaming live through your living room, refreshing every minute. See how to make memories come alive with this FiOS-networked Digital Memory Wall. http://www.2pointhome.com/


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Your family photos, old artifacts trapped in albums and collecting dust or memories come into life in front of your eyes. People, it is time for photo liberation. [Music Playing] How to make a Digital Memory Wall? A Digital Memory Wall is a series of monitors that stream your photos. So, they are not stashed sway and dust the albums. It is like a visual news feed of your family and with a files network to computer, your relatives can add to it instantly with their latest pics. Here is what you will need. A customized computer Windows XP or Vista Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard 2 Fire MV PCI-e Graphics Cards 1 Dual Output ATI Graphics Card Photo Screensaver Software Photo Sharing Software (like Flickr or Picasa) LCD Monitors (VGA or DVI Inputs) Internet Connection (FiOS Recommended) For the smoothes photo stream, use Verizon internet. Step 1: Assemble your custom computer. Running thin monitors with a constant photo stream will demand a lot from your computer. To avoid crashes, accustom configure the computer with these minimum requirements: 600 watt power supply, dual core processor, and 2GB DDR2, DRAM memory. Then I tweak the input/output settings on the motherboard to allocate the more DRAM memory for video. [Demo] Step 2: Install WindowsXP or Vista on to the hard drive and add the graphics cards. [Demo] Step 3: Decide where you want to mount each of the monitors on the wall. Depending on your setup, you will need to route power to your monitors. The cables were running behind the wall. So, plan the placement of your computer accordingly. [Demo] Step 4: Now, you will need to configure the monitors, so they match the setup on the wall. Open the display properties in the control panel. From the settings set, you will see each monitor you have connected to the computer. [Demo] Step 5: Download and install photo screen savers software from pack.google.com. Open the Google photo screen saver configuration tool. Add your feed link to the settings. Click the box mark photo feeds then click configure at the RSS of the albums you want to show on the memory wall. Once you have been to the feeds, click done. [Demo] Step 6: Add pictures and enjoy. Everything is now set up. When the screen saver comes on, it will now rotate the pictures and the feeds. For the files connect to computer, you can see the photos from friends and family as soon as they add them their albums. [Demo] Real time memories, what a concepts. See all the take make over that 2pointhome.com.