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a bit off topic but lets share our today screens

ok so here is mine i have used. i will call this liverpool Champions league winners
1- date
2- weather panel
3- sbp gprs monitor
4- sbp pocket plus
5- spacer
6- today player
oh and i used CEcapture its free you should find it at www.limelink.com

Boring old today screen, fine-tuned for efficiency
Cool idea & nice today screen.
Mine's a totally different approach. I tried all kinds of backgrounds, but found that photo's make the text hard to read, so eventually I came back to the boring old default blue one... I expanded it to the top and bottom of the screen.
Wisbar
Pocketbreeze
Battery bar pro
Weatherpanel (in Pocketbreeze tab)
My Today screen is all about information. I want my appointments, tasks and mail notifications to be clearly readable, with important items highlighted, yet easy on the eyes - no fluorescent stuff for me. Notice the carefully chosen text colors and the everso subtle hint of font shading to make it stand out. 8) (ok I know, I'm so full of it... :roll: )
The icon console in the Wisbar top bar is my own design. I tried to make it as compact as possible, to allow for a lot of running program icons next to the start button.
There's four scrollable rows of program shortcuts in the Program bar.
Might experiment with skinning a little more, it's fun.

i like the wisbar plug-in do you know where i can get it for free :wink:

Wisbar
i too liked the wisbar one where can i find it !!!
or is there any one who would like to share it

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spread_smiles said:
i too liked the wisbar one where can i find it !!!
or is there any one who would like to share it
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Google for "Wisbar pda"
The 1st link will take you to it.. It's freeware
OK.. I will help you: http://www.pdagold.com/software/detail.asp?s=76
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dosent work
thanks for the link but it dosent work for WM2003
bad luck
it says invalid ppc program
got another or on which windows are you useing it !!

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spread_smiles said:
thanks for the link but it dosent work for WM2003
bad luck
it says invalid ppc program
got another or on which windows are you useing it !!
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Works fine on my WM2003

where do you go to change the settings ????????????/

does anyone have a good windows mobile 5 ppc theme? or at least close to one?

Try this, its already optimized for PocketPlus.

I'm bored, so might as well post my new creation as well.

Juni's SWDeluxe Skin Suite v3.0
Juni's modified Chromium

Quickie question, those that have the task bar skinned...what app are you using to skin the notfication button and signal strength? Haven't found anything that works on the XV6600.
I'll post my today screen when I get home:
Date
SPB PocketPlus with Weather tabbed
SPB Diary
Messages
SPB 'Sphere' theme

I like my Today with plain black background. It's easier for me to read !!

Big Calhoun said:
what app are you using to skin the notfication button and signal strength?
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It's Wisbar Advance 2. Skinning it yourself is not too difficult; I made my taskbar and taskbar icons with Photoshop. But there's plenty of cool skins available, like the ones from Juni.

I've found that with Wisbar Advance 2.0, my resources are very low and it slows down the entire ppc. Anybody else with this problem? I love the various looks I can make, but because of it being so memory intensive, I've opted, for now, to not run it.

I'm with rsbenedict on this one. I've tried wisbar a few times, but it always seems to slow my device to a crawl. Has it improved recently?

WISBAR has been improved, try it for me no slowdowns

Skinners are getting better and better. I personally like this one as it matches my unit casing.

Hey Nomadman, what app are you using to pick up the news story?
Q.

Program Launcher with multiple pages

Hi folks,
I'm looking for an programm launcher like the programs tab in TF3D, but I'd like to have multiple pages, as the 24 places in the tab are way to few.
Else I want to assign it to an hardware key, so I need an application, that is not integrated in TF3D.
Does anyone know a good app for this purpose ?
I guess someone already made something like that, but google and the forum search didn't bring it up.

Sounds like a job for Wisbar Advanced Desktop, I have 8 tabs on the main screen, 20 more fading in with one finger gesture, or configure a mainscreen tab to directly open a launcher page with 20 tabs per page, where tabs can also be a Inbox, URL or shortcut to opening a program with a given file. Then switch between unlimited launcher pages with one finger gesture per page.

^^ can you please tell me what part of wishbar advance i have to activate to make my screen look like that??

Look at MortScript and Mort Buttons You can add the buttons to start menu, Today screen or to the TF3D Programs page. each button has a full page or even multi-pages you can add apps, commands or scripts to. Really handy!

Psygnosis84 said:
^^ can you please tell me what part of wishbar advance i have to activate to make my screen look like that??
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Its not Wisbar Advance (Task), but Wisbar Advance Desktop
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/products/pocketpc/WisBarAdvanceDesktop/
Then you need to install Sergej's free Blackberry Theme to the themes folder of WAD, and activate it as your default portrait mode theme.
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=93399&postcount=11
The earth background pic is attached here

that looks really nice ... but how does is look in landscape mode? does it support landscape? if yes, i'll give it a try

Dont use landscape, but the program differentiates between those two modes, so you could just re-arrange the dock and tabs to fit your landscape preferences. For me the key feature was to be able to show unlimited appointments on my main screen.

already tried yota center?

Me I use UltimateLaunch that I looove with Yota
See Screen Caps

Lucas0511 said:
Sounds like a job for Wisbar Advanced Desktop, I have 8 tabs on the main screen, 20 more fading in with one finger gesture, or configure a mainscreen tab to directly open a launcher page with 20 tabs per page, where tabs can also be a Inbox, URL or shortcut to opening a program with a given file. Then switch between unlimited launcher pages with one finger gesture per page.
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hi Lucas,
the first image you attached is your today screen? we can set wisbar advanced dekstop as our today screen?

Yes indeed, but as a today screen where you have full control of what to put on it!

Lucas0511 said:
Yes indeed, but as a today screen where you have full control of what to put on it!
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how to set the WAD as today screen? by disable the TF3D only?
last time i did try WAD, but, i didn't set it as today screen, i need to launch it as other program to get WAD work.
so, everytime you soft reset or wake up your HD, you will see WAD in your today screen?

Just disabled TF3D, started WAD installation, and WAD came up as today screen automatically. Yes, WAD is full today screen, but you can choose if you want to keep the Start and taskbar on the top of the screen, or have it disappear. Most standard Today plugins work from inside the WAD today screen, too.

Lucas0511 said:
Just disabled TF3D, started WAD installation, and WAD came up as today screen automatically. Yes, WAD is full today screen, but you can choose if you want to keep the Start and taskbar on the top of the screen, or have it disappear. Most standard Today plugins work from inside the WAD today screen, too.
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thanks a lot Lucas, i will try.

Thanks for the ideas.
I'm already using Yota Center and its a nice program.
The only thing is that I'd like to have more pages, cause 24 places is too few.
I'll try Mort Buttons, looks interesting though.

have you tried launchmanager ? it's not free though ...
http://www.fantasticbytes.com/products/launchmanager

Lucas0511 said:
Its not Wisbar Advance (Task), but Wisbar Advance Desktop
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/products/pocketpc/WisBarAdvanceDesktop/
Then you need to install Sergej's free Blackberry Theme to the themes folder of WAD, and activate it as your default portrait mode theme.
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=93399&postcount=11
The earth background pic is attached here
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Thanks just one more question. When launching the Music player or Photo Viewer etc, are they the normal HTC ones or are they customized now?
Are they still easy to use?
Also does all your programs work normally? And if you don't like the WAD, you can easily delete it?

Psygnosis84 said:
Thanks just one more question. When launching the Music player or Photo Viewer etc, are they the normal HTC ones or are they customized now?
Are they still easy to use?
Also does all your programs work normally? And if you don't like the WAD, you can easily delete it?
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No, they will not be the HTC apps embedded in TF3D. You will set up each icon to open up your own apps. I haven't heard of anyone being able to use the HTC player or album yet as stand alone apps.
Yes they are very easy to use!
WAD will not affect the way your programs run. It is simply a launcher program (one of the best that I've seen yet).
Yes, you can easily uninstall WAD by going to remove programs and uninstalling it from there...although I have a feeling you won't want to after you get the feel for what it can do to your today screen!

Thanks that was a great explanation
just one more question for example do you mean it won't have a built mp3 player or something like that but you have to download a 3rd party one and assign it?
EDIT: I just bought it and installed the Blueberry theme but doesn't show up properly, i wonder why. I'm missing the clock, the calender and whenever i press the box on the right side, a empty grey box opens.. weird.
EDIT: Fixed it up by selecting Wishbar Desktop rather than HD BlueBerry, weird. some parts are still German even after applying eng buttons.

Psygnosis84 said:
Thanks that was a great explanation
just one more question for example do you mean it won't have a built mp3 player or something like that but you have to download a 3rd party one and assign it?
EDIT: I just bought it and installed the Blueberry theme but doesn't show up properly, i wonder why. I'm missing the clock, the calender and whenever i press the box on the right side, a empty grey box opens.. weird.
EDIT: Fixed it up by selecting Wishbar Desktop rather than HD BlueBerry, weird. some parts are still German even after applying eng buttons.
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You can set it up to use Windows Media player if you want to, otherwise a third party app is what you will need. CorePlayer or PocketPlayer are a couple to check out.
I haven't installed the Blackberry theme for WAD yet but I do no if you don't have the icons installed in the correct places the theme will not show properly. I ran into this same problem when installing Mallmans Vista theme. As soon as I went back and followed his instructions perfectly, the theme was correctly displayed.
I'm not familiar with setting up different languages so I'm afraid I won't be of any help to you there. You may check out the Lakeridge WAD forum for that.
Here is how I have my WAD looking right now, a tweaked version of Mallmans Vista theme!

SPB Mobile Shell 3 - Widgets & Overview

Hi Guys
Well I've stuck SPB MS 3 on my device and I have to say that it's quite nice to configure and I especially like the wide background with scrolling....
One thing I'd like to know is if any other Widgets will come out from modders/devs or whether we have to be happy with our lot in terms of stock Widgets.
Aldso, to address the battery drain issue....I have a strong feeling that this is related to anothe3r piece of software....as I have had SPB MS3 on my Touch HD (Stock ROM) for the last couple of hours, received a couple of calls and some MMS messages (with constant data connection live) and I am only on 95%.
Comments on either points welcome?

masrterk said:
saw last full video review of Spb mobile shell V3.... very disapointed with some feactures....
not completely finger friend as iphone or new manila from Topaz (Diamond2)...
continuos to use
Windows Sms menu ,
Windows alarm,
windows calendar apointments,
no photo viewer like tf3d,
no decent Video , audio player...
-»please make some new menus or plug-in
for mobile shell V3 same problems V2
NEW Programs/Menus sugestion
-»please make Sms program or menu
like Vito Sms chat or iphone Sms ,PC msn
-» please make fingerfriend Alarm for M.shell 3
-» please decent Mp3 video player and photo viewer
....
Spb weather is excelent in m.shell2
many thanks
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Please, you have posted this almost word for word in every damn thread on the site that mentions SPBMS3, often more than once.
You are entitled to your opinion and what you say may even be entirely valid, but for the love of pete, STOP! We get it, thanks.

And not only in xda !!!
But he's got a point though..!!

OK - he has a point but he's destroying the merit of that point by being a bit of a fool....anyway, do we know if it's going to be easy to create widgets ourselves?
That was really the reason for my post

is mobile shell 3 out already then????

SPB Mobile Shell 3
Hi Guy's
I have taken a look over at Infosyncworld and watched this video http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/9030.html it reminds me a little of the SPB mobile shell 3's carousel.
Comments from page above: "Pros: Brilliant interface, among the best we've seen for a mobile phone. Smooth animation, great colors, sparkling effects".
Cons: "Nobody is building this into a phone . . . yet."
No correlation but striking nonetheless.

I've just posted my thoughts over on the SPB forum,
it is good...but there are also a few things that aren't
1) I do like the ability to change widgets, size of widgets etc, but I'm missing the battery indicator on the professional now screen
2) The call log has already been mentioned, but it's certainly not the best so I wont go there again
3) The now screen calendar, I can only get 1 week to display on either of the now screens. That means that today (sunday), I can't see anything for next week. Also, as pointed out for MS2, the bold to indicate a day with appointment still isn't clear enough..another colour would have been better
4) The phone doesn't automatically return to the Now screen when turned off. it returns to the last screen you were looking at
5) the option to change to two softkeys on the today screen (Touch HD) has gone. On MS2 these defaulted to SBP menu and Calendar I think. I changed mine to SPB menu and Now. The SBP menu still works, but the now gives an error that the "nowscreen file cannot be opened"...and no way to change this
6) I still use my today screen because of the PhoneAlarm plug in. MS3 takes two clicks to get to the today screen, MS2 required only one.
7) the facebook integration only works for contacts in your favourites list
8) the ability to email a contact has been added though, which had been requested so that's a good thing
so..to sum up....I'm undecided on whether to upgrade when the full version is released, or go back to MS2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UayDOO_0gII

i like ms3 but i have a problem with the notifications, when i receive email or sms i see it in my taskbar but not at the notifications of ms3???
whats going wrong? anybody got an idea??

htckaiseruser said:
i like ms3 but i have a problem with the notifications, when i receive email or sms i see it in my taskbar but not at the notifications of ms3???
whats going wrong? anybody got an idea??
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This is not a problem for me when I'm running MS3. The notifications appear as they should. I've read some people are having issues with the CAB install (although I haven't had any issues with it), have you tried the .exe install?

htckaiseruser said:
i like ms3 but i have a problem with the notifications, when i receive email or sms i see it in my taskbar but not at the notifications of ms3???
whats going wrong? anybody got an idea??
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Also for me is the same...

Pandemoniumone said:
This is not a problem for me when I'm running MS3. The notifications appear as they should. I've read some people are having issues with the CAB install (although I haven't had any issues with it), have you tried the .exe install?
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Where to find the exe file?

Kal-El said:
Where to find the exe file?
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It was posted in this thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505365
Read through the thread to find some useful tips with customizing as well!

i have installed both the exe and the cab version. same problem. on startup notifications works, but after i been in startmenu or a other menu the notifications fail to come in notifications of ms3

life style background
i have found that if you use a ratio of 1.6 to 1 shows the background image the best. the size does not seem to matter as long as it has this ratio.
edit: sorry I posted this in the wront thread, I ment to post it in the diamond themes, applications and software as this ratio is for vga. again sorry for the mistake.

decided after some testing to go back to TF3D - I dislike the use of WM to preview the texts and emails - TF3D has a better mechanism for me in that respect...nice UI though.

Kal-El said:
Also for me is the same...
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Here too...

After trying the SPB 3.0 shell i decided to buy it. I love the way it is customized and the diferent views it provides, but yes i concurr the sms and mail preview of the TouchFlo 3D is way better.

Power off and softreset button from pocketplus?(icon)
does anybody know how to get the shortcuts power-off and the green reset icon function from pocketplus4 into Mobile shell3?
i am so used to switch off by tapping that icon on my homescreen,
but i cant find it in ms3.
OR do you have a better solution for tapping off my HD?
thanx bros.

like ms3 but i have a problem with the notifications, when i receive email or sms i see it in my taskbar but not at the notifications of ms3???
whats going wrong? anybody got an idea??
Today Customize the appearance and the information to be displayed on the Home screen.

[App Req] Titanium Plugin to host traditional today plugin

Is there anyone know how to develop a Titanium Plugin which can host Traditional Today Plugin?
cheers.

i'd like that too

Hey its a good idea!

is there any developer can help?

Great idea.
But i am using the tripod method from one of the threads on ppcgeeks.
I have windows titanium as default plugin and tf3d2 on detacher mapped to left soft key which takes me to touchflo. And there i have left soft key to take me back to titanium and right key for second today. So i just keep going back and forth as i need too.
If anybody is interested then i will post the files and steps for setting it up.

Hemant said:
Great idea.
But i am using the tripod method from one of the threads on ppcgeeks.
I have windows titanium as default plugin and tf3d2 on detacher mapped to left soft key which takes me to touchflo. And there i have left soft key to take me back to titanium and right key for second today. So i just keep going back and forth as i need too.
If anybody is interested then i will post the files and steps for setting it up.
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I am interested...Please post the steps

Hemant said:
Great idea.
But i am using the tripod method from one of the threads on ppcgeeks.
I have windows titanium as default plugin and tf3d2 on detacher mapped to left soft key which takes me to touchflo. And there i have left soft key to take me back to titanium and right key for second today. So i just keep going back and forth as i need too.
If anybody is interested then i will post the files and steps for setting it up.
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but this is not exactly the solution which we want to totally independent on Touchflo.

anyone know how to develop such Titanium Plugin?

kooldude1411 said:
I am interested...Please post the steps
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1. Disable all plugins from the today settings
2. Install second today cab
3. TFDetacher cab
4. Soft reset and enable titanium from the today settings
5. Right soft key for clock plugin will be directed to tf3detacher. Clicking it will take you to tf3d2 back and forth. You can set the left and right key combination for both windows and tf3d under tf3detacher.
One thing what i have noticed is that if you map the left windows key to tf3d2 it wont retain after a SR, that option can only be setup using Showaco CHome Editor. Let me know if you want that setup too.
Credit goes for this goes to the guy over PPCGeeks. Enjoy.

hkultraman said:
but this is not exactly the solution which we want to totally independent on Touchflo.
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In that case you just install the secondtoday and have all your today plugins showing in second today screen. It works that way too.

there is MTP already, which is better than second today in my opinion. MTD can host any Today Plugin in a new Tab page in Manila.
see here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=508102)
What i suggest is to port MTD to Titanium. Is there anyone know how to do?
cheers.

hkultraman said:
Is there anyone know how to develop a Titanium Plugin which can host Traditional Today Plugin?
cheers.
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Yes please really good to have this, any one has this already please?

Any news about this very good idea ?

I guess no movement here.. I still use SPB Pocket Plus because I don't want to give up my various (now legacy) Today screen plugins, but I'd like to check out Titanium. TF3D is cute but not very useful beyond that IMO...

PLEASE is there a small monthly calendar display???

Is there ANY where I can find a way to display a small calendar of the month on the TODAY screen??
I see small analog clocks by the hundreds. But not ONE little 31 day calendar anywhere.
It would be great to have an analog clock AND the month displayed maybe with holidays highlighted,
and a click-able appointment maker when you 'touch' the day.
Verizon HTC Touch Pro 2 WinMo ver. 6.1
Thank U (x) 100 for any help!

Why would this be necessary when we already have the calendar tab?
Use Outlook to insert your country's public hoildays.
If you want quick access to this tab, just tap on the "Calendar" link under "Call History" on your home tab. Or you can just position the calendar tab as one of the first 5 tabs so that you can just tap on it on the slider bar.

I am too lazy to have to press a tab to do that.
That and I want to be able to see both the calendar
and other screen items at the same time.
I COULD make a background pic that shows a 'static' month but...
gee... it's a computer... I'm not smart enough to program a cool
dynamic calendar myself though.

RLCalendar will do what you want and is freeware.
It will display a calendar is all no holidays highlighted and no clicking on it for anything but it will show a monthly calendar.

dalavar said:
RLCalendar will do what you want and is freeware.
It will display a calendar is all no holidays highlighted and no clicking on it for anything but it will show a monthly calendar.
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Thx but I have installed both the rlCalendar CAB AND the rlToday CAB on
my touch pro 2 and I can not see either app in programs or settings
even after rebooting.

HTCTP2sab said:
Thx but I have installed both the rlCalendar CAB AND the rlToday CAB on
my touch pro 2 and I can not see either app in programs or settings
even after rebooting.
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RLCalendar will only work with the old Today screen of WM 5-6.1 it won't work for WM6.5 after installing the cab you have to go to settings>today and turn it on and configure how big or small you want it.

dalavar said:
RLCalendar will only work with the old Today screen of WM 5-6.1 it won't work for WM6.5 after installing the cab you have to go to settings>today and turn it on and configure how big or small you want it.
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Yep. I got that; WM 6.1 on this Verizon TP2.
When I open Today->Programs I see no rl-anything, rlToday or rlCalendar.
But when I open Today->Settings->System->Remove Programs, they are
displayed and listed in there:
"rotlaus Software rlToday" & "rlSoft rlCalendar" are in the 'list' of removable programs.
However when I go to Today->Settings->Personal->Today->Items and look at all the items I can turn on...
I see no items on the list that read rlToday or Today or rlCalendar or rlSoft or anything like these programs.
Just the normal items like TouchFLO 3D, Messaging, Device Lock, etc. etc.
I appreciate the help you are trying to give. I think I've finally found a device that validates
my dumb as a rock persona.

Hmm weird, I haven't tried it with WM 6.5 since I use SPB Mobile Shell and it has a nice calendar widget. Might give it a shot this weekend for you and see if I can get RLCalendar to work.

dalavar said:
Hmm weird, I haven't tried it with WM 6.5 since I use SPB Mobile Shell and it has a nice calendar widget. Might give it a shot this weekend for you and see if I can get RLCalendar to work.
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Don't do. I appreciate the thought and effort. But don't just for me please.
I have loaded a number of 'today' add-ins ( and uninstalled them ) when
they screw with my display res. or pixel widths or something.
Not worth it.
I downloaded the 'trial' SPB Shell program and calendar and I will play with that
thank you.
Maybe somebody else has fought this rlProgram wheel and will add feedback.
Thx again.