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Show your Today Screen

Since every subforum has a topic about this, why wouldn't the Polaris subforum have one
Anyway, I'll start by posting mine:
Everything is clickable and runs the appropriate program.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Great idea, about time us Polaris users had our own Today Screen thread

texarcana said:
Since every subforum has a topic about this, why wouldn't the Polaris subforum have one
Anyway, I'll start by posting mine:
Everything is clickable and runs the appropriate program.
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I love it
What is it?
@+

here is mine
check it out...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2026760&postcount=433

Hello
-Htc Home 2.1 + Customizer
-Battery Status
-SPB Pocket Plus 4
-Quick Menu 2.7

Here are mine
Nothing much...
HTC Home, BatteryStatus & O2plus (for calendar display).
Not forgetting the background to match the plugins' placement.

texarcana said:
Since every subforum has a topic about this, why wouldn't the Polaris subforum have one
Anyway, I'll start by posting mine:
Everything is clickable and runs the appropriate program.
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Hi Texarcana....cool idea....how did you make it - what program did you use?

Very cool
Texarcana how did you make it? i never see one like yours today screan!
RLToday?

Yup. rlToday & photoshop for the layout and adjusting the default rlToday xml file

Here's mine.

Hey texarcana is there any chance of an upload of that skin?
It's just what I want- nice, clean and easy to read. But I'm a complete novice on the whole rltoday thing.

My Today Screen
I am using BatteryStatus and UltimateLaunch.

boz said:
Here's mine.
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How did u do this... very good one

It was achieved with the HTC Home customiser, O2 Plus 2.3, today radio device toggler and a theme called ripple3.

boz said:
It was achieved with the HTC Home customiser, O2 Plus 2.3, today radio device toggler and a theme called ripple3.
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Do you have any links for these were they free?

my home.....all spb soft

boz said:
It was achieved with the HTC Home customiser, O2 Plus 2.3, today radio device toggler and a theme called ripple3.
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Is it a way you can give your theme or today screen so that i can use it in my PPC.

The theme is ripple3 which I have attached, the clock and first row of 6 icons was achieved with the HTC Home plugin and customiser pack available here For the second row of icons I used O2 Plus 2.3 available here and use this for the bluetooth, wifi and phone switches. You just need to make them appear on your today screen in your today item settings.

hake101 said:
Hey texarcana is there any chance of an upload of that skin?
It's just what I want- nice, clean and easy to read. But I'm a complete novice on the whole rltoday thing.
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@Texarcana - Spread the love dude...
That skin is awesome. I'll have to look into RLToday, but to echo the earlier point, it would really help if you could share your skin.
Thanks

Thanks for the tips and upload Boz, my TC looks a lot smarter now.

Windows Mobile/PPC Shell's

Hi,
Been doing some research on Windows Mobile/PPC shells.
So far I have tried the following.
1.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
HTC Home with SPB Mobile shell HOME icons only. (only way i know how to get icons on my home screen was via spb..)
I mainly use this right now.
2.
I tried out ThrottleLauncher's TouchFlo3D
IT IS OKAY, not bad actaully. Still some issues. But not bad at all.
3.
Winterface, wow i really love this.
My major issue is, it has no today plug-in so I always find myself back at the windows today screen all the time.
Other lame issue is their SMS app and contact app and photo app, they could have integrated those standalone apps way better into a single product.
Overall vito's app suite looks promising.
Anyhow,
My question is what other mobile shells are there? Is there anything out there close to winterface but better? I really like it. Overall anymore finger friendly things? Post/link me to other apps. Please give me thoughts.... and ideas...

For iPhone interface look-a-like, iFonz.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=369241
Today Life is very good & finger friendly, developing fast.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=407900
and then there is spb mobile shell, which isn`t free + lots and lots of others.

thanks
Thank you for the suggestions.
I already use SPB Mobile. Paid for it and vito suite.
Anyhow keep suggestions/apps coming. Hopefully down road someone else will find this thread useful.

Any others?

http://www.pointui.com/
WOW, that is not bad

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=364344
found another

Not a bad thread, nice to have all the various options laid out.
As you have HTC's Home plugin for the Today screen included, you may also want to add Pocket Digital Clock (just a nice, lightweight clock) in combination with your launcher of choice such as UltimateLaunch or MortButtons.

yepp
That is the idea of this tread so one day some newbie can look at the work i already did for them. Also hoping others will contribute.

http://www.sbsh.net/product.php?id=29#
hmmm
iLauncher

anyone else find anymore?

http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/products/pocketpc/WisBarAdvanceDesktop/
wisbar ooo

UltimateLaunch
http://www.ultimatelaunch.de/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=366796

Mmmmmm
mmmm phonealarm with wm7 skin?just foun the thread
i cant remenber where does i saw it.

Oups
sorry repeated post

Im talking about shells not specfic app so much but thanks for the suggestion.

Becomes kind of blurred as most of the apps that are or are going to be listed are typically just a clock with an app launcher.

I was going to start a thread... regarding
"windows mobile finger friendly apps'
starting a list of applications like this...
but i found a website http://www.touch-innovation.com/
It does not list free ones... so anyone want to add on apps to this list free or paid? besides ones on the site.

rL today - It's a customizable XML based multi purpose plugin..

Best PIM or organizer or calendar

I'm searching for a certain PIM. Now I'm using Agendus Profesional editio. It's a great one but it's working too slow and it's going on my nerves! If you know what to do to make it work faster, please tell me (but I doubt if anyone knows this )
Well there is only one condition which a PIM must have, a week block view with the possibility to display different appointment categories in different colors or with different icons. Here is a picture what does it look like in Agendus Pro
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Well the Outlook Calender on WM 6.0 has this great week view but it doesn't have the feature to mark different categories. I would be really happy If anybody would have or know a hack or knows what to do about it. I know the registry hack to display names of appointments in the block but it doesn't come in handy.
I've tried out:
- Pocket informant 8 - it has the week block view but it sux!
- Agenda One
- Agenda Fusion
- SBSH Calendar Touch 2
- SBSH PocketBreeze
- Spb Diary
(The last two are actually today plugins, but can be used also as PIM)
Thanks for your help folks

Still no suggestions?

Oh I see. xda developers is another forum where no support is given on a tiny bit complex questions. All this cream de la cream developers of software for mobile units here on xda and no answer, how pityful for such a well known site. They are breaking up HTC's and Cooking ROM's, do lot's of great stuff, but no one tried to write something for this damn outlook calendar to display categories in colors! No rather then that they are always playing with this TouchFlo crap and so on...
Oh well. Thanks =P

It may well be that there is nothing else to work the way you want and instead of a series of "Sorry don't know" ,people are staying quiet. I was one.
Personally i use ThumbCal, doesn't do colours but does do diary stuff well and is finger friendly.

1 and a half year in this forum and 5 posts.... Whats YOUR contribution to the site buddy? May be you could have tried what you are looking for and shared it with us?
Think before judging....
Just a suggestion, no offence intended

Thank you deedee, but unfortunately I've already tried this out. It's really a great PIM or better to say calendar, but I really miss the week view :aww:
Addicted2xda said:
1 and a half year in this forum and 5 posts.... Whats YOUR contribution to the site buddy? May be you could have tried what you are looking for and shared it with us?
Think before judging....
Just a suggestion, no offence intended
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Thanks for your help
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jup you're right, I don't do much on this forum. But even if my contribution to this forum would be bigger I seriously doubt that it would be a bit better with answers to my questions ;P

Windows Theme

Hello All!
Before some of you start blasting me, I have searched and Googled everywhere for a 2.2 ROM with a theme that might be simliar to Windows Mobile 6.5. I like it because it has a clean look with the missed calls and appointments available for the home screen. I thought I saw one ROM theme once that had one very similar to the WM 6.5, but after searching everywhere, I couldn't find it. If it is out there, please point me in the correct direction? But if so, I am actually willing to pay for a theme similar to Windows Mobile. I am currently running VirusROM with SENSE. Thanks for your help!
John

wrong section

boostin91tsi said:
Hello All!
Before some of you start blasting me, I have searched and Googled everywhere for a 2.2 ROM with a theme that might be simliar to Windows Mobile 6.5. I like it because it has a clean look with the missed calls and appointments available for the home screen. I thought I saw one ROM theme once that had one very similar to the WM 6.5, but after searching everywhere, I couldn't find it. If it is out there, please point me in the correct direction? But if so, I am actually willing to pay for a theme similar to Windows Mobile. I am currently running VirusROM with SENSE. Thanks for your help!
John
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thread title contains the word theme.... common sense would dictate that you would post this in the themes and apps section of this forum.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Sorry, I clicked on the wrong section. By the way, there is no need to be a prick. Like the first responder, all you had to do was leave it to what he said.

I made a Windows-ish theme but it was for 2.1, might work on 2.2, all you can do is try it.
It was my first attempt ever at a theme, so it wasn't anything spectacular. I'll find you the link.
Edit:
Here is the thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7115654&postcount=1

Ack: to each his own Android's homescreens can be set as simple or complex as you want.
BUT look for "Zune Home" in the market. That may be near what you want.

Honestly, I think what I am really looking for is a widget for the home screen so I can see the information similar to Windows Mobile 6.5 (Missed Calls and Mail/Messages). That is all I am looking for. I'd love to be able to use my SENSE ROM. I have even tried Executive Desktop (or whatever it is) and e-Today, but they didn't quite fit what I was looking for (although e-Today was close).
Thanks!

[Q] What softkeybar and what font?

Hello all!
A few days ago i came acros two things that caught my attention
1. a font that i absolutely love
2. a 6.5.x softkeybar, i'm absolutely not good at finding those things so could you please help me with that?
the softkeybar:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
The font:

gewoonjan said:
i'm absolutely not good at finding those things so could you please help me with that?
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use the forum "search" function and you'll find tons of this stuff
about fonts these are the most used here and here
for the softkey bar you have to install a new WM skin , too many to link here and depends on your taste
here some classics from Artemis ROM thread

jjollyroger said:
use the forum "search" function and you'll find tons of this stuff
about fonts these are the most used here and here
for the softkey bar you have to install a new WM skin , too many to link here and depends on your taste
here some classics from Artemis ROM thread
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Search i did use and i did found tons of the stuf (overkill), but not the one i'm looking for and i hoped maybe someone could give me a name of the things (if i have that it's quite easy to find) or post links like you did
for the font i'll check kd-font, haven't checked that app yet and for the artemis skins: I am an artemis user
oh and thanks for your help and time, i appreciate it

it looks like this one, and btw you should search for taskbar not softkey bar, gives better results, also maybe it's only me but it seems that search via google (using site:forum.xda-developers.com paremter) works better than the xda one

p107r0 said:
you should search for taskbar,not softkey bar, gives better results
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taskbar is the upper one, so it won't give better results but totally different
the requested "softkeybar" is related to winmo skin

jjollyroger said:
taskbar is the upper one, so it won't give better results but totally different
the requested "softkeybar" is related to winmo skin
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you think gewoonjan meant the bottom one, I assumed it was about the upper, but reading again I think you may be right

thanks for your efford to reply here, but jjollyroger is right, i do mean the bottom one of the bars
I use an android skinned taskbar and to finish my phones transformation a bit more i'd love to have that font 0=)
guess i just have to try and pm the person who made the screenshot or pm dinik, and my guesses are that there's never gonne be a reply on my question :'D
anyways thanks for your time and suggestions!

Hi Gewoonjan,
I think this is the softkeybar you're looking for, I got no idea who the author is so credit to everyone who deserves. Just rename it properly and overwrite it in /Windows directory, I hope you like it.
Unfortunately I can't help you about the font, it is a nice one and I wish to have it too, so if you find it please don't forget to share it with us
Best regards.