software for turning a mac into a digital photo frame

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A while back we had a little 8 inch digital picture frame that ran of an SD card. Our family has 32 gigs of photos and I wanted to display all of them on something bigger. So I put all the photos in a folder on our Time Capsule and the files are accessed wirelessly by a dual processor G4 450 running OSX 10.5. I then use the generic osx screensaver to display the photos. The problem is the OSX screensaver zooms in too much for some pictures and cuts of peoples heads etc. I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that will display large amounts of photos fullscreen randomly without zooming in, or if there is even a screensaver that would do the same thing.
 

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How about photo slideshow software? Would that be OK? Here's one that I found but there's more. Do a Google search.

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What about Front Row - standard app within 10.5 I believe, just select your photos and stick it on slide-show?
 
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iPhoto does pretty good slide shows.

I had dismissed them as just a gimmick, but I guess they would fulfill your purpose pretty well.
 
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Front doesn't work because it doesn't randomly select photos, also ever since the new iphoto that sorts pictures by events came out I cannot find a way to have the front row photo presentation do display more than one event. Iphoto also does not select photos randomly for their slideshows and as far as I know it does not support slideshows with files that aren't located locally, all of the photos are not actually on the machine they are accessed wirelessly through a time capsule. chscag thanks for the link, the program would have worked ok except it couldn't deal with the files not being on the machines hard drive, everytime it tried to connect to 30 gigs of files over the wireless connection it froze. thnks for the replies but I am wondering if there is another screensaver out there that just selects pictures randomly with no zooming in or out, that seems like the best solution. Also I would like the slideshow to start automatically soon after the computer wakes up.
 
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Turns out that there is exactly what i was looking for under an options button in the screensaver preferences. Thanks for the replies, it was right under my nose
 
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It works for Desktop too. Now that's real cool - random pictures constantly changing. Just put all my favourite photos in one directory and I will no longer have to change my desktop manually.
 

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