PC desktop on a Sony PSP!
Frequently, I leave applications such as Skype or Email running on my main machine in the study and find myself popping into to check if anyone is emailing or Skyp'ing me. Since I have a Sony PSP I thought it would be nice to be able to use that to do a quick check if I was in other parts of the house.
Unfortunately programs like VNC don't run on PSP's so I put together a little hack to at least give me a view of the PC screen.
On the PSP I run a VB.NET program which captures the screen every minute. It's a simple bit of code that grabs the desktop window and saves it to a .JPG file on the web server running on the
media center. I then use a PHP web page to scale the picture on the fly. For example, in the picture below it is shrunk (and stretched) to fit the PSP screen. You could of course have it do a 4:3 representation of something like 800x600 pixels so you could read the mail or skype messages coming in.
Egg Garden
Toxic
Alien Wars
Sea Quest
Memory
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