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themes.org Adds Palm Themes Section
Anonymous Coward writes "Themes.org announced a new section today: Palm Pilot themes! Palm.Themes.org looks very promising, especially to those who have a color Palm Pilot.
You can check out the news story here (which contains a link to the actual site)." The comments from early downloaders make it sound especially promising.
Remember, "Loose" rhymes with Moose, and means the opposite of "tight" as in, "your shirt is too loose."
"Lose" rhymes with "shoes" (not "nose" or "hose") and means 1. the opposite of "win" or 2. "to misplace."
GOT IT MORONS? Or should I say, "LOSERS."
Thank you, and apologies to all the winners who know "lose" is a four letter word.
The above poster is not a troll. He/It doesn't even rise to the dignity of the term. The only reason he can be called a "troll" is because the moderation system doesn't have options for (Score -1, Lame) or (Score -1, Juvenile) or something such. There's only options for Flamebait, Troll, or Off Topic. And since he probably thinks it's cool to be a "Troll," even if he doesn't know what one is, he makes any lame attempt at all to get that name.
The fault lies with the moderators, who should be labeling these types of things Offtopic, since that's what they are. Best idea: they shouldn't touch them at all, so they don't waste their moderator points. (but then again, maybe such dumb moderators *should* lose their points to these kinds of simple tricks)
Proper Troll and Flamebait posts are actually _ON_topic, but deliberately go against the grain of the discussion either overtly and (perhaps) abusively (as in Flamebait) or somewhat subtly and/or passive/aggressively (as in Trolls). They are not posted to posit an opposing point of view, so much as to just push the buttons of the people who have any view at all, viz., a discussion of Fords and Chevys might be filled with some reasonable arguments on both sides, but with the occasional incendiary Flamebait or Troll post peppered throughout, trying to piss off one side or the other into a flamewar.
But these people, the grits/supatroll/exploding/portman people are not trolls at all. They're just wannabes with nothing to do and no creativity either. Making a real, effective troll post is hard and requires some wit or cleverness, or both. What these people do is very much easier and lame besides.
Especially, people who call themselves Trolls are not trolls. That's a label others give your post, not one you give yourself.
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no, that was the preliminary name, but we insisted to the author that it be palm.themes.org instead of pilot because of the fore-mentioned copyright issues.
-- adraken
cheers!
-- adraken
Willie: Hand over the hose (pronounced to rhyme with noose)
Nelson: The moose? (as he sprays Willie with the hose some more)
Willie: I said turn off that nozzle (pronounced like noo-zle)
How it's possible ? When they released Palm IIIc they justified the bigger size because of the extra-hardware they had to put in and now they are releasing a Palm Vc ?
I noticied that in the picture the screen isn't exactly equal to the Palm IIIc screen. The bottom is in normal green instead of the black one that appeared in Palm IIIc.
No.
(It is rather funny). But a standard palm pilot (up to Palm V and IIIe) can only display 4 shades of grey (or greenish), or 256 colors in the color version (not sure about how palettes work, as I don't have a color pilot).
If you look at the gradient menus, they are undithered, smooth gradients. You can't do that, the hardware just won't drive it. In fact, the 2 greys had to be done with a direct hardware software hack in the earlier versions of the OS, as the APIs only supported black and clear.
It's coming up on the end of April 1st, so I figure I'd tag this one.
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Evan
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
Take a look at those "screenshots" at http://palm.themes.org. Recall that the palm only supports 4 bit greyscale (IIRC) or 8 bit color.
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Check it out. It looks like Apple and Palm weren't messing around! I wonder how well it runs Quake....
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I believe it's good for before 4/4/2000, and not NY FL residents for the beta test. According to the suppose rules, I wonder if I can "fake" the referal for my family and friends. Not that I can find 25 friends and family.
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Download the co-pilot emulator and simply capture the screen to disk from the menu. see developer.palmpilot.com to download. yes, theres one for linux too.
I'm sorry, but I can't resist responding to this. Theming is not only for people that have too much time on their hands, it's also for people that think default "themes" are ugly, (witness win9x) I theme win9x to make it more useable (via litestep) and to make it not ugly (windowblinds) I'm sorry you feel the way you do. I just happen to like technology for both of the reasons you mentioned, the aren't mutually exclusive you know.
cheese logs keep my wang warm at night.
My favorite way is to use daScrShot with a DA launcher. DA's are desk accessories, or little apps that run on top of other apps. You invoke it, press 'capture' and it creates an ImageViewer image on your Palm. Hotsync to get to it or use a viewer app to see it on your Palm. If you have trouble finding them at PalmGear.com they are on my site, but may not be updated (and i ain't responsible for 'em. I just keep em there for easy access). Enjoy :)
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Josh Forman
Josh Forman
The palm 'Vc' at the bottom is such a horrible paste job.... Damn. People should start preparing for april 1 a little bit sooner next time.
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How does one go about creating screenshots from a Palm ? I am just curious and would like to try it.
Something very much like this does exist. It's not as good and it's not free (by any definition). But it's Here.
Go to palm.t.o, and scroll down to the aqua theme. Cool, ain't it? Now look at the things to do list - see the one that says "Ask about pilot.themes.org"? Now you know it's a joke, because Palm isn't allowed to call their device pilot!
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Check out the Palm theme for WinAmp, at the linked site (I had a link, but Mozilla crashed -- hey, a good excuse :-). There's also a MacOS X theme (pretty, my favorite actually).
For us Linux folks, they all work perfectly in XMMS too!
theme."org adds palm" say the part in quotes really fast. at least the guys at slashdot have a sense of humor with THIER subliminal messages.
My favorite theme is the South Park the Movie - they just shot Bill Gates. Can the PDA show the whole thing?
You can't handle the truth.
- Jeremy Fuller
- Jeremy Fuller
Sorry about the ill-tempered reply, but I think it had to be said.
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