There is an observatory close to where I live called the "Mount Washington Observatory" (http://www.mountwashington.org/). It just so happens to be located on top of Mount Washington who would have thought it? Anyway, they post pictures every 15 minutes from the five different public cameras located across on the property. I thought it would be cool to make them into a Vista slideshow gadget, while adhering to bandwidth conservation. The images the gadget uses are pulled from a mirror site (I mirror them on this server, http://devclarity.com/MWO) so not to choke MWOs bandwidth. The images will cycle often (configurable) but will only be updated every 15 minutes, there is also a time each day where no new images will be processed (9pm to 3am, the cams have trouble seeing in the dark :-)).

Updates
Nov 26: Minor Bug Fixes

Credits
My friend Kirk for doing up the graphics and Mount Washington (of course) for posting the images in the first place.

Screenshot (It's dusk so the image is dark, you can zoom in by clicking on the image)

Download Link

MtWashington.gadget (70.96 kb)

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