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We had this great idea of using an old digital photo frame from smartparts to display some useful reports at work.
In this case, useful will mean that the reports (pictures in the frame) needs to be automatically updated, with no human intervention.
Take a look to this post, you may find something useful for your own DIY project!
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RXTX is a native lib providing serial and parallel communication for the Java Development Toolkit (JDK). All deliverables are under the gnu LGPL license. The native part is developed in C.

If you are using the parallel port functions of this project for version rxtx-2.1-7r2 or older, you may be interested in this code optimization, it is a small change but it may improve the resource usage in certain cases.

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