Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. Especially useful
when you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
whatever. Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.

Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. I just got
one for Christmas. Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
dawned on me. I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.

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On Dec 26, 2:48�pm, wrote:
> Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. �Especially useful
> when you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
> whatever. �Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>
> Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. �I just got
> one for Christmas. �Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
> photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
> dawned on me. �I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.
>
> --
> Silvar Beitel

Idiot, spy cameras have been in use since well before WWl.

http://www.pimall.com/nais/nl/spyphotography.html

said...

> Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. Especially useful
> when you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
> whatever. Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>
> Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. I just got
> one for Christmas. Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
> photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
> dawned on me. I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.
>
> --
> Silvar Beitel
>


Silvar Beitel,

The digital picture frame would be fun to store a picture of the inside of
your fridge so you could hang it on the fridge door so you wouldn't have to
open the fridge and stare in it every 30 minutes! LOL!

Best,

Andy
Geek with forks

Andy wrote:
>
> The digital picture frame would be fun to store a picture of the inside of
> your fridge so you could hang it on the fridge door so you wouldn't have to
> open the fridge and stare in it every 30 minutes! LOL!

And in the meantime, hackers eat your hard drive with
a side order of fava beans.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente..._frames.ht ml

Mark Thorson said...

> Andy wrote:
>>
>> The digital picture frame would be fun to store a picture of the inside
>> of your fridge so you could hang it on the fridge door so you wouldn't
>> have to open the fridge and stare in it every 30 minutes! LOL!
>
> And in the meantime, hackers eat your hard drive with
> a side order of fava beans.
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...g_shipped_infe
> cted_digital_picture_frames.html


Mark,

WHOA!!! I would've gotten bit!!! Amazing!

Best,

Andy

Andy wrote:

> said...
>
>> Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. Especially useful when
>> you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
>> whatever. Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>>
>> Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. I just got one
>> for Christmas. Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
>> photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
>> dawned on me. I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.
>>
>> --
>> Silvar Beitel
>>
>>
>
> Silvar Beitel,
>
> The digital picture frame would be fun to store a picture of the inside of
> your fridge so you could hang it on the fridge door so you wouldn't have
> to open the fridge and stare in it every 30 minutes! LOL!

This would be a way to over-geek the old question about the fridge light,
too. A frame on the fridge door fed by a webcam inside, so you can be
sure that when the door is closed the light is really off.


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Sheldon wrote:
> On Dec 26, 2:48�pm, wrote:
>> Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. �Especially useful
>> when you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
>> whatever. �Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>>
>> Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. �I just got
>> one for Christmas. �Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
>> photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
>> dawned on me. �I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.
>>
>> --
>> Silvar Beitel
>
> Idiot, spy cameras have been in use since well before WWl.
>
> http://www.pimall.com/nais/nl/spyphotography.html

Why would they be an idiot because clearly you don't have the first clue
about what they described?

Blinky the Shark said...

> Andy wrote:
>
>> said...
>>
>>> Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. Especially useful
when
>>> you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
>>> whatever. Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>>>
>>> Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. I just got
one
>>> for Christmas. Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
>>> photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
>>> dawned on me. I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Silvar Beitel
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Silvar Beitel,
>>
>> The digital picture frame would be fun to store a picture of the inside
of
>> your fridge so you could hang it on the fridge door so you wouldn't have
>> to open the fridge and stare in it every 30 minutes! LOL!
>
> This would be a way to over-geek the old question about the fridge light,
> too. A frame on the fridge door fed by a webcam inside, so you can be
> sure that when the door is closed the light is really off.


Blinky,

LOL!!!

I remember a fridge webcam probably using a QuikCam, 10 or so years ago
that did exactly that. It was funny! You could visit the webpage and see
what was in his fridge when the door opened. No telling though about the
light bulb. I forget how it worked, exactly.

Best,

Andy

> wrote:

> Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. Especially useful
> when you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
> whatever. Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>
> Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. I just got
> one for Christmas. Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
> photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
> dawned on me. I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.

This is how I post recipes from books here and in other groups.

-sw

In article
>,
wrote:

> Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. Especially useful
> when you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
> whatever. Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>
> Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. I just got
> one for Christmas. Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
> photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
> dawned on me. I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.
>
> --
> Silvar Beitel

That is a cool idea!
I've seen those things for sale at Wal-mart.
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On Fri 26 Dec 2008 02:18:08p, Blinky the Shark told us...

> Andy wrote:
>
>> said...
>>
>>> Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. Especially useful
when
>>> you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
>>> whatever. Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>>>
>>> Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. I just got
one
>>> for Christmas. Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
>>> photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
>>> dawned on me. I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Silvar Beitel
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Silvar Beitel,
>>
>> The digital picture frame would be fun to store a picture of the inside
of
>> your fridge so you could hang it on the fridge door so you wouldn't have
>> to open the fridge and stare in it every 30 minutes! LOL!
>
> This would be a way to over-geek the old question about the fridge light,
> too. A frame on the fridge door fed by a webcam inside, so you can be
> sure that when the door is closed the light is really off.
>
>

But would make it a bit hard to see the food inside.

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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:18:08 -0800, Blinky the Shark
> wrote:

>Andy wrote:
>
>> said...
>>
>>> Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. Especially useful when
>>> you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
>>> whatever. Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>>>
>>> Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. I just got one
>>> for Christmas. Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
>>> photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
>>> dawned on me. I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.
>>
>> The digital picture frame would be fun to store a picture of the inside of
>> your fridge so you could hang it on the fridge door so you wouldn't have
>> to open the fridge and stare in it every 30 minutes! LOL!
>
>This would be a way to over-geek the old question about the fridge light,
>too. A frame on the fridge door fed by a webcam inside, so you can be
>sure that when the door is closed the light is really off.

Okay, we have now established my pattern when reading one of your
posts, Mr. Blinky.

I say, "OH, my God," groan, and roll my eyes.

That's how Crash knows I'm reading your work.

Carol

Omelet wrote:

> In article
> >,
> wrote:
>
>> Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. Especially useful when
>> you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
>> whatever. Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>>
>> Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. I just got one
>> for Christmas. Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
>> photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
>> dawned on me. I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.
>>
>> --
>> Silvar Beitel
>
> That is a cool idea!
> I've seen those things for sale at Wal-mart.

They seem to me to still be in too-much-money-for-not-much-screen
territory.


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Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> On Fri 26 Dec 2008 02:18:08p, Blinky the Shark told us...
>
>> Andy wrote:
>>
>>> said...
>>>
>>>> Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. Especially useful
> when
>>>> you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
>>>> whatever. Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>>>>
>>>> Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. I just got
> one
>>>> for Christmas. Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
>>>> photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
>>>> dawned on me. I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Silvar Beitel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Silvar Beitel,
>>>
>>> The digital picture frame would be fun to store a picture of the inside
> of
>>> your fridge so you could hang it on the fridge door so you wouldn't
>>> have to open the fridge and stare in it every 30 minutes! LOL!
>>
>> This would be a way to over-geek the old question about the fridge
>> light, too. A frame on the fridge door fed by a webcam inside, so you
>> can be sure that when the door is closed the light is really off.
>>
> But would make it a bit hard to see the food inside.

Why?

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Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:18:08 -0800, Blinky the Shark >
> wrote:
>
>>Andy wrote:
>>
>>> said...
>>>
>>>> Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. Especially useful
>>>> when you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
>>>> whatever. Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>>>>
>>>> Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. I just got
>>>> one for Christmas. Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
>>>> photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
>>>> dawned on me. I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.
>>>
>>> The digital picture frame would be fun to store a picture of the inside
>>> of your fridge so you could hang it on the fridge door so you wouldn't
>>> have to open the fridge and stare in it every 30 minutes! LOL!
>>
>>This would be a way to over-geek the old question about the fridge light,
>>too. A frame on the fridge door fed by a webcam inside, so you can be
>>sure that when the door is closed the light is really off.
>
> Okay, we have now established my pattern when reading one of your posts,
> Mr. Blinky.
>
> I say, "OH, my God," groan, and roll my eyes.
>
> That's how Crash knows I'm reading your work.

<AOL>

he he

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On Fri 26 Dec 2008 11:26:36p, Blinky the Shark told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
>> On Fri 26 Dec 2008 02:18:08p, Blinky the Shark told us...
>>
>>> Andy wrote:
>>>
>>>> said...
>>>>
>>>>> Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. Especially useful
>> when
>>>>> you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
>>>>> whatever. Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>>>>>
>>>>> Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. I just got
>> one
>>>>> for Christmas. Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
>>>>> photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
>>>>> dawned on me. I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Silvar Beitel
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Silvar Beitel,
>>>>
>>>> The digital picture frame would be fun to store a picture of the
inside
>> of
>>>> your fridge so you could hang it on the fridge door so you wouldn't
>>>> have to open the fridge and stare in it every 30 minutes! LOL!
>>>
>>> This would be a way to over-geek the old question about the fridge
>>> light, too. A frame on the fridge door fed by a webcam inside, so you
>>> can be sure that when the door is closed the light is really off.
>>>
>> But would make it a bit hard to see the food inside.
>
> Why?
>

If the light is really off when the door is closed?

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Here's an idea:

Improvise in the kitchen with recording webcams trained on you
at all angles. If the food comes out really well, send
the files to a transcription service (say, in Bangalore)
who [for a fixed fee] decodes was you were doing from the video
and creates a recipe.

Steve

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> On Fri 26 Dec 2008 11:26:36p, Blinky the Shark told us...
>
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri 26 Dec 2008 02:18:08p, Blinky the Shark told us...
>>>
>>>> Andy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> said...
>>>>>
>>>>>> Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. Especially useful
>>> when
>>>>>> you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
>>>>>> whatever. Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. I just got
>>> one
>>>>>> for Christmas. Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
>>>>>> photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
>>>>>> dawned on me. I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real
>>>>>> soon.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Silvar Beitel
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Silvar Beitel,
>>>>>
>>>>> The digital picture frame would be fun to store a picture of the
> inside
>>> of
>>>>> your fridge so you could hang it on the fridge door so you wouldn't
>>>>> have to open the fridge and stare in it every 30 minutes! LOL!
>>>>
>>>> This would be a way to over-geek the old question about the fridge
>>>> light, too. A frame on the fridge door fed by a webcam inside, so you
>>>> can be sure that when the door is closed the light is really off.
>>>>
>>> But would make it a bit hard to see the food inside.
>>
>> Why?
>>
> If the light is really off when the door is closed?

Then you can't see the food when the door is closed, whether or not you
have a camera in there. So no loss of functionality by adding the cam.

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On Dec 27, 1:25 am, Blinky the Shark > wrote:

> They [digital photo frames] seem to me to still be in too-much-money-for-not-much-screen
> territory.

Well, the one I received is an 8-inch HP, model 820A3. It's on sale
at Target this weekend for $110. Whether that is worth it or not is a
personal call. Certainly you'd want one big enough to read print
standing in your cooking area.

It comes with 512 MB of internal memory and a remote control that
allows you to select the photos you want displayed and to zoom in on
them. Handy when you've taken a picture of a whole page of a magazine
or cookbook but the recipe you want is just one column of it.

The next time I go to the library, I think I'll take my camera and see
if there's anything I want in the cooking magazines they have that I
don't subscribe to (which is most of them). Maybe peruse some
cookbooks too.

I mean, I need more recipes like I need a hole in the head, but I like
this idea.

Using a digital photo frame hanging on a wall or cabinet door means
you don't have to have a computer or open cookbook taking up space on
your countertop, too.

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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:28:17 -0500, George wrote:

> Sheldon wrote:
>> On Dec 26, 2:48�pm, wrote:
>>> Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. �Especially useful
>>> when you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
>>> whatever. �Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>>>
>>> Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. �I just got
>>> one for Christmas. �Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
>>> photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
>>> dawned on me. �I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Silvar Beitel
>>
>> Idiot, spy cameras have been in use since well before WWl.
>>
>> http://www.pimall.com/nais/nl/spyphotography.html
>
> Why would they be an idiot because clearly you don't have the first clue
> about what they described?

the good news is that sheldon is *still* an idiot.

your pal,
blake

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:18:08 -0800, Blinky the Shark wrote:

> Andy wrote:
>
>>
>> The digital picture frame would be fun to store a picture of the inside of
>> your fridge so you could hang it on the fridge door so you wouldn't have
>> to open the fridge and stare in it every 30 minutes! LOL!
>
> This would be a way to over-geek the old question about the fridge light,
> too. A frame on the fridge door fed by a webcam inside, so you can be
> sure that when the door is closed the light is really off.

my food is so insecure i hadda get a refrigerator where the light stays
on.

your pal,
blake

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:48:39 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

>Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. Especially useful
>when you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
>whatever. Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>
>Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. I just got
>one for Christmas. Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
>photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
>dawned on me. I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.

That's not a bad idea! I've never understood the people who want to
have a whole computer in the kitchen but a suitably-large digital
picture frame would probably work nicely!

On Jan 1, 1:09 pm, Kajikit > wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:48:39 -0800 (PST),
> wrote:
>
> >Capture recipes of interest with digital camera. Especially useful
> >when you're away and it's not *your* cookbook or magazine article or
> >whatever. Beats the heck out of scanning/printing or copying.
>
> >Display recipe(s) in kitchen on a digital picture frame. I just got
> >one for Christmas. Today, watching stored pic's flash by, including a
> >photo-snarfed recipe or two captured on the camera card, this idea
> >dawned on me. I can see the DPF hanging on a cabinet door real soon.
>
> That's not a bad idea! I've never understood the people who want to
> have a whole computer in the kitchen but a suitably-large digital
> picture frame would probably work nicely!

So I hung the thing on a kitchen cabinet a couple of days ago using
brown wires that more or less matched the color of the cabinet doors
and routed the power cord so that the door would open cleanly and the
wire would be out of the way. I put a couple of photo-captured
recipes on a memory card and even went to the library yesterday to
snag a couple of photos of recipes in their various cooking
magazines. Plus, rather than drag a large cookbook down from upstairs
(they're all over the place in chez moi) for something I wanted for
New Year's Eve, I just took a snapshot of it. The DPF setup works
very well! It hangs there at about eye level and as mentioned before,
takes up no counter space.

And surprise! When you're not cooking, it can even slide-show through
pictures like a, uh, digital picture frame :-)

Suggestion if you do this: Get one that has a remote control and easy
access to the card slot. Trying to operate one (zooming in on
particulars of a recipe or switching between recipes without a remote
will be a PitA.)

But wait! There's more! :-)
It makes a nice night light too! (Had guests in the room off the
kitchen, so it made their middle-of-the-night trips to the bathroom
easy.)

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