@variablepulserate I estimate it goes for a shade under two hours.
We’ve had a good look, there are no more photos in Mum’s collection to be scanned. So her 1st gen iPad has had 1266 photos added to its Photos app. Being an original it still has the Picture Frame capability, it’s set to start a random slideshow (10 seconds per pic) with the tap of a single icon on the lockscreen.
In scanning the last batch of photos I found a telegram sent the morning after I was born from an aunt to Mum.
Mum’s GP is concerned about Mum’s health. She wants to send her off next week for a CT scan and then based on that either a colonoscopy or a endoscopy as she recently had an iron infusion & has blood evident in her faeces. Searching for abnormal growths. Possibility of bowel cancer. The history of Mum’s side of the family is they either die from old age, cancer or both, she’s 5 months short of 91.
@matigo Not greatly, it’s bigger & better than most digital picture frames and very easy to use.
Loaded 1265 photos (more to be added) onto a 1st gen iPad bought cheaply from a pawn shop. It’s been set up without any Apple ID as it’s only intended for use as a picture frame.
Easy operation. Switch on ffrom off or standby, same button used there. If the password prompt appears, tap Cancel. Next, ignore the slide to unlock and tap the icon immediately to the right of that.
Enjoy slideshow.
@sumudu If email is not to be trusted, then use the semaphore code. It’s alphabet is denoted by combinations of arm positions. Napoleon set up a massive network of semaphore telegraph towers, a message could be relayed from Paris to Lille (230 km) in 30 minutes, for example.
// @matigo @variablepulserate
@variablepulserate Flap your arms from the top of a hill with semaphore, then.
// @matigo
Angry. Answered a Farcebørk Mucketplace ad for a 1st generation iPad. Advertiser was certain it was an iPad 1 & not an iPad Air.
Visited customer’s home (35 minute trip each way) to find it was a totally unsuitable iPad 2 on iOS 9.3.5. I need an iPad running anything predationg iOS 7, cos that’s when the picture frame feature was discontinued.
When set up, there was another operations mode from the lockscreen. Instead of swiping to unlock, one could tap an icon to start a slideshow of a selected range of photos.