Cieva

Wednesday August 7th 2002 05:03 PM PST

I connected my Cieva again today after getting a new power supply. I was originally given the picture frame by Jen's Dad who had invested in the company. He had a geek over at cieva set up the account and then just gave the frame to us. SO... when we first got it there was an UNLIMITED account, that's right, we didn't have to pay shit. And now... it seems that they (cieva) have updated all the accounts and now it will no longer download any new images until i pay. Now i figured it wouldn't be that much, so when i saw the $119.99 fuckin pricetag i said \FUCK OFF\. So now i want to know if there is a hack for this frame. I mean there has got to be someone (who hasn't yet become....) out there who has figured out a way to patch this thing into a modem and just pass pictures to it from their own desktop computer. Right now as it is, you have to upload the images to cieva's web site, then your picture frame will dial in and download them from their servers. Now there has to be a way to trick the picture frame into thinking it's talking to the cieve server when it is really just taking to a modem and another computer in the room. Hmmmm, time for a little digging. And i really hate the fact that I only have 5 images on my frame right now, and i can't fuckin change them.

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If you find a hack LET ME KNOW! I have one too and my subscription just ended...

Posted by: Jason D-

$60 a year is what they've got on their site right now. Mine has another month to go actually. I'm going to rip the thing apart and make it into a piece of installation art soon. I just wish I could control the transitions more. The screen would be great if the hardware behind it wasn't so fucking archaic...

Posted by: Jason D-

Here is a link to some info. Hope it helps.

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Whoops, forgot link... http://web.mit.edu/colin/www/ceiva/

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