08-13-2002, 07:01 AM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 3,060
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Palbum Picture Viewer Giveaway
http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=311&platformId=2&productType=2&catalog=0&sectionId=0&productId=27441
One of our good friends, Vassili, has let us know that his company has launched version 3.0 of its Palbum Picture Viewer.
This image viewer is chock-full of great features:
� Fullscreen view
� Thumbnails view
� Images panning, zooming, rotating and fit-to-screen mode
� Slideshow mode
� Optimization for 4096-color devices such as 36-series iPaq
� JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG formats supported, others supported with plug-ins
Picture Viewer also integrates with other photo album-related applications from Vassili's company, Spb Software House.
To mark this product revision, Spb has agreed to give a free license of Picture Viewer to five registered (and randomly selected) Thoughts readers. We'll select the winners from our list of all registered readers in a few days. Of course, you must be registered with this site in order to win. (Otherwise, how could we draw your name?  )
In addition, in honor of the diligence that so many of our readers have in posting to the Pocket PC Thoughts forums, Vassili has also offered to give a free license to each of the five readers who (as of this morning) have posted more than 250 times since the birth of the Thoughts forums (excluding the Thoughts "staff"). And, who might those dedicated individuals in serious need of a real life be? Of course, if you visit the forums, you recognize their names: pdadave, JonnoB, spg, Foo Fighter and Paragon. Thanks for such dedication!
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08-13-2002, 07:25 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,768
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woohoo
Wow, I actually get something for 'not having a life' - sounds like my wife speaking to me. :twisted:
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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke
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08-13-2002, 09:11 AM
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Swami
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 4,396
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Did anybody else get this from Vassili?
Speaking of Vassili, did anybody else get a private message from him about beta testing? I'm not sure whether to feel honored because I was selected for my excellent posts :lol: or angry because we were just spammed.
A copy of the message I got is at the end.
If this is a limited thing, I don't mind, but I'd hate to see this become too prevalent. I recognized SPB as a legitimate vendor, but there was also that recent problem with some hosting company's representative collecting E-mail addresses and spamming people.
Steve
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Originally Posted by vassiliphilippov
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08-13-2002, 09:44 AM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 4,303
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Yup - I got that too - I was not sure either whether to be annoyed or flattered. Is it legit?
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08-13-2002, 12:56 PM
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Swami
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 4,396
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Beta Testing Request Info
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Originally Posted by PDA Gerbil
Yup - I got that too - I was not sure either whether to be annoyed or flattered. Is it legit?
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SPB is certainly legit, and apparently Vassili is, too, as Jason seems to know him. I sent Vassili a private message asking about the original E-mail, and I have attached the reply.
So unless I hear otherwise, I'll assume it was a small mailing, and I offered to help beta test the program.
Steve
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Originally Posted by vassiliphilippov
Steve,
sorry to disturb you.
We really did not want to "spam".
I sent the private message to few people that we would like to see as beta testers. We really appreciate links to our developer websites (Pocket PC Developer Network and Spb Software House) that you put on your webpage so we thank that make be you would be interested in beta testing. We did not want to make it in public so we did not use posting in webforums or in newsgroups.
Sorry again, we will never interrupt you again.
Best regards,
Vassili Philippov
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08-13-2002, 03:42 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 111
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Well, I'm just an average poster and I didn't get an email/private message, so I'd assume that they were targeting people and not just spamming all of us. They'd probably do better to personalize each email so as not to make it look too much like spam.
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08-13-2002, 04:01 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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I'll talk to Vassili about it, but right now there's no way to for anyone other than an admin to get an email address from this site. We've literally removed the email column from the membership list, and it's also been removed from your profile. You should be 100% spam-proof via email on this site.
EDIT: Ok, it was a private message...now I understand. Vassili meant well, and only the top posters seem to have gotten the message, but I'll ask him to refrain from doing it again. Unsolicited messages are still unsolicited, no matter how good the intensions. But the keyboard does look cool... 
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08-13-2002, 04:11 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 74
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Full Screen Keyboard
I wrote private messages to few people that I thank would be interested in beta testing. I did not post a message in the public forum because I was afraid to get too a lot of responses and would not be able to handle them.
We have already found necessary number of beta testers and have already received very valuable feedback - thanks to all of them!
The interesting thing is that this input methods works on all Pocket PC except T-Mobile XDA. But the most interesting thing is that on unbranded XDA it works OK. Do you have any ideas what could T-Mobile do with XDA that the input method does not work?
Vassili Philippov
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08-13-2002, 04:24 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 360
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I was also contacted. At first I was dubious. I contacted Vassili and he has cooperated with all my questions. I was not too interested in this application at all, but I have to say that in using it, it is pretty cool. There are a few things I think they need to change. Overall great app. I was very impressed that a developer took the time to personally contact people who he wanted to beta test his product. To me that shows an amazing level of commitment, not to mention true attention to this community.
Good Job!
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08-13-2002, 05:09 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 116
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• Optimization for 1024-color devices such as 36-series iPaq
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Shouldn't that say 4,096?
I would hate to see what a nice picture would look like on a 1024 color screen  ukeface:
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Linear Mode
