10-01-2004, 05:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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WisBar Advanced�
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/wisbar/
"WisBar Advance 2 expands upon the successful task management features found in the original WisBar Advance. Now more tightly integrated with the PocketPC operating system, WisBar Advance provides greater responsiveness and a richer user experience."
Features include:
� Compatible with PPC2002, WM2003 and WM2003SE
� Close, minimize or ignore any application
� Switch between any application currently running on your device
� Provides a cascading start menu (like in the picture above)
� Never miss a system notification again with the new dynamic notification icon
� Tap and hold the OK button to cancel a dialog
� Add or remove functions to the taskbar
� Each button on the taskbar can be assigned a tap and a tap-and-hold action
� Change the appearance of the taskbar, menubar, buttons and start menu in any program
� Supports high-resolution and landscape mode skins
� Customize the clock's appearance on the taskbar
� Hear sounds for system events, just like on your desktop
� Download and install themes created by other people
This version is available for $9.99.
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10-01-2004, 05:04 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 98
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<hippy> Aww, it costs money </hippy>
Is it me or have these Wisbar-based children got too over-bloated? I'm sticking to vBar...
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10-01-2004, 05:05 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 275
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Whoa whoa whoa! Since when they started charging for this? There's not much improvement from the one I got from them. (that was free too)
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10-01-2004, 05:07 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 589
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Yea, I remember the big reason to get Wisbar Advance over Wisbar was that it was free. But it really seems to have improved a lot, with new features. I'll probably buy it in a few weeks, after some better VGA themes come out.
At least the old version is still free, I guess :?
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10-01-2004, 05:13 PM
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Thoughts Media Review Team
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 1,004
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Originally Posted by johncruise
Whoa whoa whoa! Since when they started charging for this? There's not much improvement from the one I got from them. (that was free too)
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I have been following the work in progress on Wisbar Advance 2 for some months now (and a long time user of the original WBA) and would have to say that for the amount of work the developer (Chris McKay) the price is very reasonable. Although at first glance it may seem not much different to WBA original or any of the other Wisbar developments it seems that it has pretty much been re-written from the ground up to work in with things such as notifications/vga/WM2003SE etc etc.
I have the beta on my PPC at the moment and will certainly be putting my money where my mouth is  .
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10-01-2004, 05:16 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 307
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How are people finding this?
I'm trying it, but getting a lot of hangups.
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10-01-2004, 05:18 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 450
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Chris annouced 1 day before the final release that WBA2 will be commermencial...until then everyone belived that it'll be free...it's a shame... 
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10-01-2004, 05:20 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,998
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I thought that a stipulation of the original WisBar code being made public was that any product based on it remain freeware.
Maybe I mis-remembered?
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10-01-2004, 05:21 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 98
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Originally Posted by Jeff Rutledge
I thought that a stipulation of the original WisBar code being made public was that any product based on it remain freeware.
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The original Wisbar code can only be obtained from the author...
I don't know, maybe WA2 has been coded from scratch but kept the name?
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10-01-2004, 05:22 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 498
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Originally Posted by KTamas
Chris annouced 1 day before the final release that WBA2 will be commermencial...until then everyone belived that it'll be free...it's a shame... |
There is nothing wrong to go commercial if Chris wrote everything from scratch and doesn't include "wisbar" in the product name.
Also, Chris should learn something from TodayPlus dispute: telling beta-testers that the prodcut is not free at the beginning.
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