04-29-2004, 07:00 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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Digital Blasphemy Now Offering Pocket PC Themes
Digital Blasphemy is my favorite wallpaper site, so I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Ryan Bliss, the author, is now offering Pocket PC themes -- 5 free ones for non-members, and a whopping 38 for those of you who are members of the site. (While you're at it, you might also want to sample his wallpaper work -- I use them on all of my computers.  )
My officemate noticed one quirk: the themes may not render your start menu text in white (it didn't on his iPAQ 3970 upgraded to WM2003). There are various workarounds, including a simple registry hack, if you experience this problem on WM2003; unfortunately, I don't think you can change the start menu color on Pocket PC 2002.
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04-29-2004, 07:12 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 740
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No, you can't; and a small change to some of the TSK files will also change the Start Menu text color in WM2003 (without having to make the registry hack...)
I've been begging Ryan for these for months and finally offered to help him with this about 6 weeks ago. I guess that (or quite possibly something else...) got him going and he produced these way cool themes by himself. Aside from color consistencies through out all of the theme elements (like Important Message Bar Left/Right Colors, Lower Command Bar Colors, and Navigation Tray Colors), these are AWESOME!!
Ryan is one of the BEST artists I have come across on the 'Net, and that's why I've been a DB Member for almost 4 years now. His wallpapers are the best I've ever seen. If you pair these themes with his wallpapers, you've got one of the best desktop combinations going!
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Kind Regards,
Christopher Spera
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04-29-2004, 08:28 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by Chris Spera
Ryan is one of the BEST artists I have come across on the 'Net, and that's why I've been a DB Member for almost 4 years now.
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Indeed. I've actually bought a lifetime subscription to the site. 8O
--janak
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04-29-2004, 08:48 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 36
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Just for added clarity on the Registry hack. The first three bytes range from 00-FF and indicate R,G,B values (last value does nothing as far as I can tell). So FF FF FF 00 gives white, 00 00 00 00 gives black, AA AA FF 00 gives a light blue, etc.
-- Opus, Janak officemate
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04-29-2004, 09:32 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 74
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Are there any workarounds for 2002?
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04-29-2004, 09:42 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 254
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I'd still like to know who invented the myth that the start menu text color can't be changed. I've been changing it since PocketPC 2000.
Use something like SnoopSoft's ColorMe. Set the text color for MenuBar to whatever you want. Other software will do the same thing, but the item might be called something else.
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04-29-2004, 10:12 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 9
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Ryan Bliss always did outstanding work with DB - it's great to see him expand his offerings to Pocket PC.
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04-30-2004, 12:35 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 148
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I just joined the website but am I missing something?... I can't find a link to those 38 PPC themes from the Members Area.
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04-30-2004, 01:29 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 103
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I dunno, I know I'll be flamed for saying it, but I think that while the work at DB is technically stunning, it's artistically boring, oh look a landscape...it's been done before. But sure the guy is talented, I just wish he could channel it into something other than yet another landscape.
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04-30-2004, 03:10 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 5,616
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
Indeed. I've actually bought a lifetime subscription to the site. 8O
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I see no lifetime options on the signup page. Only one year personal, 90 day personal, one year commercial. :?:
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