Turn your Internet Tablet into a virtual Chumby

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20105749.post-38082283625955121882008-02-16T13:01:00.003-07:002008-02-16T13:27:07.129-07:00Turn your Internet Tablet into a virtual Chumby<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Ki_XGZxWsq4/R7dDw2YwiUI/AAAAAAAADKY/hGY27yUrbFw/s1600-h/chumnit.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Ki_XGZxWsq4/R7dDw2YwiUI/AAAAAAAADKY/hGY27yUrbFw/s400/chumnit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167673603943074114" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://www.chumby.com/">Chumby</a>, the open hardware and open software information/entertainment appliance, now allows users to create and play with a "virtual chumby." Chumby is an alarm clock sized embedded Linux device with a Flash widget player. The widgets are selectable, configurable, and automatically flip cycle. This is something I wanted on my Internet Tablet for some time as the tablet can still feed me information while I am at my main computer. To turn your tablet into a virtual Chumby, follow these steps: <ol><li><a href="http://www.chumby.com/account/new">Register</a> at chumby.com</li><li><a href="http://www.chumby.com/widgets/channels">Create a channel</a> and choose/configure some widgets. There are a lot, so have some fun with it. </li><li><a href="http://www.chumby.com/mychumby/virtualchumby">Create a virtual Chumby</a> using the channel you chose. Keep in mind that interactive widgets ones that require clicking or shaking) do not work on the virtual Chumby. </li><li>Create a simple web page that displays the chumby. It's as easy as dropping the embed code into an empty html file and adding normal html and body tags around it. Centering it would be good too. </li><li>Put the web page somewhere on your own site and visit it from the tablet.</li></ol>That's it! It's actually rather fun. I use weather, Facebook, The Onion, woot.com, a horoscope, and more.thoughtfixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09805747981436810611noreply@blogger.com