02-16-2004, 11:15 PM
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MyVGA: Freeware Toshiba e800 Screen Resolution/Orientation Switcher
A number of tools have been released to support landscape and/or 480x640 mode on Toshiba e800 series devices. Here's a neat-looking free one. It also has features to change font types/sizes and scrollbar sizes.
The real question is, when are other OEMs going to start deploying 480x640 devices? 
UPDATE: The program is no longer available. Discussion as to why is in this BH thread.
UPDATE: The URL to MyVGA is back in the thread, as Pocket PC Tools is now hosting it. Read my explanation as to why in the thread. - Jason
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02-16-2004, 11:31 PM
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The real question is, when are other OEMs going to start deploying 480x640 devices?
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Late May/early June. Why - is it supposed to be a secret? :wink:
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02-16-2004, 11:34 PM
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You tease! 8)
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02-16-2004, 11:55 PM
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I feel much released when I found the source is "geekzone and jkendrick". There is a long thread in brighthand.com about the copyright of this wonderful freeware. I read jkendrick's posts there and worried about his attitude. Now seems he changed his position.
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02-17-2004, 12:00 AM
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Originally Posted by huangzhinong
I feel much released when I found the source is "geekzone and jkendrick". There is a long thread in brighthand.com about the copyright of this wonderful freeware. I read jkendrick's posts there and worried about his attitude. Now seems he changed his position.
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8O I'm just crediting him because he mentioned it in an interesting Off-Topic thread -- http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/foru...ic.php?t=24540 -- about ResFix vs. MyVGA. I also read the BH thread and had a tough time putting it in this post, so I didn't. I don't mean to imply that jkendrick did or did not endorse this program by mentioning it. I'll leave further discussion on the "IP" issue to that thread.
--janak
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02-17-2004, 12:26 AM
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I'm going to ask a dopey question.
If this app was installed to another device, say an iPAQ 2210, would you be able to use it in the same way as NYDITOT or JSLandscape?
Just wondering...Is anyone game to try it? I would but I jsut don't have the time to mess around over the next couple of days.
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02-17-2004, 12:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Anthony Caruana
I'm going to ask a dopey question.
If this app was installed to another device, say an iPAQ 2210, would you be able to use it in the same way as NYDITOT or JSLandscape?
Just wondering...Is anyone game to try it? I would but I jsut don't have the time to mess around over the next couple of days.
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It won't work. It's hardware rotation, using ATI chips.
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02-17-2004, 12:46 AM
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wm 2004 will almost certainly bring native vga/landscape support. I would expect to see the first devices with such specs in june or july.
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02-17-2004, 12:49 AM
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Originally Posted by huangzhinong
I feel much released when I found the source is "geekzone and jkendrick". There is a long thread in brighthand.com about the copyright of this wonderful freeware. I read jkendrick's posts there and worried about his attitude. Now seems he changed his position.
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I never had a position. If you notice I posted the very first news item about MyVGA on PocketPC Tools and it's still there. I find it to be a great program and it's still the one on my Toshiba. The Brighthand folks (and I'm one of them too) get awfully testy quickly.
But, to be clear I never came down on one side or the other of this issue. It's not a fortunate situation and I think both sides should have done things differently.
Can't we all just get along 
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02-17-2004, 02:42 AM
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Just went to http://myvga.sourceforge.net/ and guess what? "The project is closed, sorry." That's all. Seems copyright and intellectual property matter to the SourceForge people at least.
I haven't seen the Brighthand thread. Guess I'll have a look for it now. But I do know that Deez put one heck of a lot of work into that thing, and having a big chunk of his code adopted by someone else without compensation or even proper acknowledgement just doesn't seem right to me.
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