Our church just purchased two 10-inch LCD Photo Frames. We’re going to be putting them up in our lobby to display announcements and photos from church-life. It’s going to be splendid – I can’t wait to get them up.
I’ve been working with them a bit today and trying to “randomize” the photos & graphics has been quite cumbersome. I’m sure some higher-end models allow for a “random” slideshow, but ours simply goes in sequence according to the file name. That just ticked me off.
So, I did a little “browsing” and found a great solution. I offer it here because others may want to do the same and may find this solution very helpful!
I simply downloaded a program called, “File Renamer Basic“. It’s free, simple to use, and perfect for this application. I simply put all of the image files into a directory and pointed File Renamer Basic to that directory and after a few trial-and-error attempts managed to get each file renamed to a random number filename (our frames require a .jpg extension – this was simple to keep as the standard using this application).
It couldn’t be easier (well, if my photo frame had a “randomizer” built in, I guess that would be easier).
I now have 70+ images stored on our one photo frame and am currently watching the “random” slideshow while sitting here at the desk! I know that it may be a bit discouraging that my “random” slideshow will repeat itself exactly as it played the first time, but this is something I believer we can live with.
For what it’s worth, we bought two of these photo frames for our purposes here.
Something we probably take for granted each time we watch a football game: the digital, yellow first-down marking line. I always thought it was “magic” that made it appear there on the field for our viewing pleasure. Turns out it’s a lot more work:
We, like many other churches across our nation will be lifting our service on Sunday Evening, February 1st. We will still be gathering at the church, however, for a Super Bowl party! All my life I remember this being one of those “conversations” that came up each year about whether evening service would be canceled due to the “Big Game”, and my first few years in youth ministry I remember the “danger” of bringing this “conversation” into staff meeting with the question of possibility. I even remember at least one year having to run from our 6PM service immediately over to the Super Bowl party!
I’m thankful that here at Armbrust we’ve already lifted our service and are in the process of planning a great party.
I loved what Newspring in Anderson, SC did to promote their NO PM SERVICE on February 1st –
Super Bowl Promo 2009 from NewSpring Media on Vimeo.
One day I will be this creative!
All I created was this 2-D Slide. 
So what’s the deal at YOUR church? Is canceling service for the Super Bowl a “taboo” in your area? Is it a no-brainer?
What this guy does on a bike is simply amazing:
yfg nasty 3! from kr!$+?1k? on Vimeo.
