Stock Quotes and Weather on A Momento 70 Wireless Picture Frame

The i-mate Momento 70 is sideshow enabled. A talented programmer at i-mate provided me with a pre-release x64 driver so that I could experience the sideshow features (which I’ll be showcasing on my MS webcast 3/22 or so). The folks at i-mate seem nimble, co-operative, and I’m hoping that this device takes off like a rocket when it is available to consumers.

I’ve got the Live Sidebar Stock Quote gadget on my desktop and have enabled it for the Momento in the Windows Sideshow Control Panel applet. I also received a test weather application that is sideshow enabled from the same talented programmer and enabled that as well in the Sideshow Control Panel Applet. This one relies on a weather feed subscription from MSN Weather configured in IE7 on Vista.

Here’s a close-up showing the detail: