My 770 has been gathering dust since May when I bought a Nokia N95 and realized I could get along pretty well with just that and nothing else. (I love you N95! Don't ever leave me!) I tried selling it, but when nobody bit I thought, well, I've always wanted a digital picture frame to views lots of photos on... maybe the 770 would be good for that?

So I found Quiver, the photo viewer, and it seems to work fairly well for a barebones slideshow effect. I'm not sure the underpowered 770 could handle any cool transitions, and I like Quiver's scrollable thumbnail interface during slideshow mode. When running, it even seems to disable the 770's built-in screen dim function, which was a big hurdle for this idea. But here are my remaining questions:

1. Is there a way to read Flickr streams and display them as full screen slideshows? The one Flickr app I found (on Maemo) doesn't seem to handle much in the way of automation.

2. How long can I pull this off before I burn out my 770's screen? I really don't want to ruin it by January 2008.

3. Along those same lines, is there a solution that would let me turn the screen on and off at certain times of the day automatically, so that I could leave it plugged in in one place and never deal with powering it on or off, but also not waste electricity when I'm not around to look at it?

I can develop in Flash using ActionScript 2.0, but that's about the extent of my programming capabilities, so I'm trying to see if there are existing apps out there that I could chain together to get some sort of final picture-frame effect that I'd be happy with.

Any ideas?