PLAYSTATION 3 has great features, besides gaming of course, such as great picture quality (HDMI), media features and being online.

It’s not possible to browse your remote network-discs with media content out-of-the-box from the PS3. The PS3 feature that is ootb is to look for a Media Library on your local network.

What is a Media Library?
Check out PS3 Media Server to create your own Media Library. The application creates a connection to the PS3 and manages the nitty-gritty stuff and all you have to do is to point out the media files on your network. There is some additional codec installations if you are running Linux on your Media Library host.

So you need a host computer where you run the PS3 Media Server and any OS is supported. Install the PS3 Media Server and point out the media files within the application.

You can access you photos, music and the application re-renders video on-the-fly to a format the PS3 is ok with.

I’ve had a few hick-ups so far (on Linux), but the PS3 Media Server is enabling more use of the PS3.

Read more on the PS3 Media Server blog or the PS3 Media Server code project page.

Good luck.

I had problems getting this to work with the instructions provided by google here. The beta version of Picasa includes a really nice feature where you can select images and easily synchronize or send them to you online Picasa library.

I found instructions here that works!  The instructions goes like this:

1. Open your /etc/apt/sources.list file with gedit:
$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Add the following line and save file:
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free

3. Download GPG key from here, save it to your home directory and run this command:
$ sudo apt-key add linux_signing_key.pub

4. Install Picasa through your Synaptics Package Manager