{"id":5733,"date":"2015-03-09T22:38:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T22:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2015\/03\/09\/original-surface-rt-is-a-great-digital-photo-frame\/"},"modified":"2015-03-09T22:38:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T22:38:31","slug":"original-surface-rt-is-a-great-digital-photo-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/original-surface-rt-is-a-great-digital-photo-frame\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Surface RT is a great digital photo frame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have four Surfaces: the original RT, Surface 2 RT, Surface Pro, and Surface 3. When I got the original Surface RT, which Microsoft gave to every full time employee shortly after it came out, I bought the Type keyboard and stopped using my iPad. The device was sluggish, though, particularly with Outlook. I bought a Surface 2 RT when it came out because it&rsquo;s a much better machine (faster and even better display), and I carry it as a backup machine when I travel (I use my Surface 2 frequently).<\/p>\n<p>A couple of months ago, I bought a new digital photo frame (the one that I had died). The display on it wasn&rsquo;t very good even though it was a higher-end model. Then it hit me that the original Surface that I was no longer using would make a great photo frame. The display is good, and the kickstand is a good angle for a photo frame. You can also find them on eBay for about the same price as a high-end dedicated photo frame.<\/p>\n<p>I tried a few apps and settled on <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.microsoft.com\/windows\/en-us\/app\/1577839b-8865-45b2-ae61-2d4aa69d046d\">Picture Frame Slideshow<\/a>, which is free. I loaded all of our pictures into a OneDrive folder, and let the app cycle through them randomly. It works really well and is the best digital picture &ldquo;frame&rdquo; I&rsquo;ve had. I&rsquo;ve set it up in the kitchen, and I wish I had done this sooner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have four Surfaces: the original RT, Surface 2 RT, Surface Pro, and Surface 3. When I got the original Surface RT, which Microsoft gave to every full time employee shortly after it came out, I bought the Type keyboard and stopped using my iPad. The device was sluggish, though, particularly with Outlook. I bought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-5733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I have four Surfaces: the original RT, Surface 2 RT, Surface Pro, and Surface 3. When I got the original Surface RT, which Microsoft gave to every full time employee shortly after it came out, I bought the Type keyboard and stopped using my iPad. The device was sluggish, though, particularly with Outlook. I bought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}