So a few days ago I was rummaging through the basement when I saw this old laptop sitting there. When I saw it, I immediately knew I wanted to mod it. Mod it into what, you ask? Well, into a picture frame PC of course! Now I know what you’re thinking, but no it will not just serve as a digital picture frame. I plan on having it display different “panes” if you will. For example, one pane will be my social networking feeds, another will display what I am currently playing on my MacBook Pro in iTunes, and a third will show a todo list and calendar. All of the software will be run from Puppy Linux. It’s a lightweight Linux distro, and probably the only thing that will run on this machine.

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