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Anyone know of a hosted Exchange service that uses Exchange 2007? One that has pricing for individuals. I've been using 4smarthphone.net, the service and support are both excellent, but I'd like to try 2007 Exchange, and they have no immediate plans to implement it. Thanks!
I think Mail2Web.com has an Exchange hosting plan with Exchange 2007 for 8.95 a month.
Btw, are you the same person who designed a very nice landscape homescreen for Facade? It's a simple one with customizable icons on top, a Wifi indicator and large space for all the appointments and below that, SMS and Mail notifications.
If you are, great job, I love it and thats what I am using on my phone.
Thanks -- but mail2web is Exchange 2003 -- they offer Outlook 2007, maybe that's what you saw. Like 4Smartphone.net, Exchange2007 is 'planned'...
Yes -- I did make that screen, glad to see someone's getting use out of it: http://forums.sbsh.net/index.php?showtopic=14372 . I made another one, with a globe and using the blue color scheme that ships with the Dash -- but the layout of things is exactly the same. On WM6, that blue scheme looks great.
Oh, I didn't know they were still 2003. Well, I guess then I don't know of any. Most, or all I have seen have it planned. However, just as a reiteration, Mail2Web's service is great. There's a recent article on them at smartphonethoughts.com as well.
Where can I go to get the blue color scheme one?
I love your homescreen because its the most functional one I have found, but I sure could do with a color change from the boring grey.
And yeah, now I saw that I did post in that topic as well. I was the one with the Dopod and the font problem.
Have you made any more screens of late?
Try this one: $9.95/month
http://www.exchange2007hosting.net/
Thanks -- just signed up, will give it a try. Reasonably priced, but would be nice if they had a price-break for annual payment up-front, as with 4smartphone. If anything, it'll give me Exchange2007 until 4smartphone or mail2web gets it
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Try this one: $9.95/month
http://www.exchange2007hosting.net/
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"Boring grey"...?! It took me days to get the colors right But, with WM6 the glassy-blue stuff looks great, and they used a blue that matches the keyboard backlight. There are a lot of prettier screens out there, but I prefer everything up front -- no tabs, switching around, etc... Less-is-more
I've attached a screenshot, but no, I haven't uploaded it anywhere -- will probably post it at the same Facade site as the other at some point. To just get the blue part though, cut 'n paste the color scheme from the TMo default blue into the xml file you're currently using
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Where can I go to get the blue color scheme one? I love your homescreen because its the most functional one I have found, but I sure could do with a color change from the boring grey.
And yeah, now I saw that I did post in that topic as well. I was the one with the Dopod and the font problem.
Have you made any more screens of late?
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Hehe, well, it was cool when I put it on my phone. But after so many months it does look boring. But yeah, I read the discussion on the thread earlier and did know that it took you a long time to get that gradient look.
That screenshot looks awesome!! You have to release it. I want it. Or upload it here. Send it to me. Do something!
I do agree about the tabs switching/less is more thing. I don't like going to 10 different screens just to get information. I want it all right there. Lately, the trend has been 3-4 different screens if you want a functional homescreen, or a too simplistic one if you just want it to be stylish.
Yours is the only one which strikes a good balance.
The gradients... the menus... the menu highlighting... homescreen text... homescreen highlighting... the IE progress bars... the window title and status bars... and a zillion others. First you have find the colors you want, then figure out the hex codes for them, and figure out which cryptic line in a color scheme controls what color... definitely not intuitive. Whoever did the colors for the default T-Mobile blue scheme did a great job, I only changed a few things
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Hehe, well, it was cool when I put it on my phone. But after so many months it does look boring. But yeah, I read the discussion on the thread earlier and did know that it took you a long time to get that gradient look....
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I'll eventually post it -- will let you know...
Thanks a lot. Will be waiting for it. I don't usually check SBSH's forums on a regular basis, so a small heads up here would be perfect.
could we do this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IMtkNSjuhQ&feature=related
Definitely would be awesome!
Look here for possible needed files
http://allshadow.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3
This is so cool! : ).
I can't wait to see it on my phone.
Can "we"? Yes, all the shadow glamour is powered by ( and probably funded 6.1) the funky new silverlight tech that powers Chome.
But do we want nice large photoes and album covers on our home screen? Do we want my fave loading with Flash-like slowness? Some yes, some, not so much...
There is a *load of possibilty in this .1 release, beyond what we've seen so far. SmartPhone Cube? Excalibur-exclusive UI functionality exploiting the unique hardware I assume is only days away, if everyone is as rapid-fire as you, Rick.
Replace * with your favorite word
I think, the people must have a choice, what to install and what is important - performance or effects. This is personal choice, and if there are many variants, technologies, etc, the people will be happy.
You see what happen when sliding panel come - everyone like it! .
The interface on the Juno... which is what you're seeing that in video... IS Chome. It's even the same CLSID on the home screen's .xml... the same GUID's... etc I'm thinking the .dll's are different to make it "special" for the TMobile Shadow (the HTC Juno).
I thought it was just a matter of formatting, like changing the .cpr file or something. I don't think it is so though... as I've searched the file system on a TMobile Shadow phone and couldnt find any .cpr files whatsoever...
All CHome interface in bronze.dll (i think so...)
yep.. true.
this cmhomeaddon plugin is only for portrait screen,and only for neo display style(another display style of chome)
Oh, sh....
Neo have weather plugin, and current CHome - no
Any recommendations for what to pick apart and repack bronze.dll with? ResHack isn't giving me anything too friendly.
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Any recommendations for what to pick apart and repack bronze.dll with? ResHack isn't giving me anything too friendly.
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use this PE Explorer
PE is much friendlier! Thanks for the tip!
When I replace the images, the file is nearly 4x larger. When I replace bronzeres on the phone it kills Chome-based screens. Is there something I have to do to force a file-size match, or sign it, or something?
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PE is much friendlier! Thanks for the tip!
When I replace the images, the file is nearly 4x larger. When I replace bronzeres on the phone it kills Chome-based screens. Is there something I have to do to force a file-size match, or sign it, or something?
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unsign the dll first then once done resign
i think it would be real neat to have a shadow interface on the dash it would make the excaliburs unique and for people in the barbershop with the same phone as me can envy lol
It works, it works! And boy, does this quick test version look like crap--- but it works, so I think I will try again, but with feeling now. Woo hoo hoo...
So, how shall we get this working on the same phone with an existing bronzesres.dll? I notice that thehome.xml calls only 2 plugins, iconbar and "Bronze". Anyone know how to dupe Bronze, and have it call the new dll?
Off to Google I go...
Ok, it's closer, and much stronger than the first experiment. In fact, the black is too strong. Back to the 'shop to tweak it again...
UPDATE: Closer still... (#6 & #7)
Got it
Ok, here it is, a nice, dark, but not too dark Sliding Panel set. At this point, it will REPLACE your regular sliding panel's soft translucent white bubble look.
Although a simple script to unload any current Chome-based homescreen and swap the dll's is probably trivial for someone to write (hint, hint), it is not for me.
Directions:
Be running WM6.1, and have Sliding Panel (Chome) working.
Switch to any homescreen that does not use Sliding Panel.
Backup your existing bronzeres.dll
Overwrite with the BrightNight version.
Load a Sliding Panel style homescreen. For best results, use black text and a bright and light background, or a medium text and a dark background for a low output "night mode". Hence the name.
CAUTION: This .dll is experimental. Use at your own risk. Look both ways when crossing the street. Floss. For those of you who didnt follow directions, the original bronzeres.dll is available earlier in this thread. It is in use and cannot be overwritten while chome is running.
UPDATE: Added some bright wallpapers, since they are hard to find around here. © someone else. If you need directions on what to do with them, just skip this whole topic.
That's tight! Maybe we can "join efforts" and make the top of the rectangle darker also, like I did in a previous thread around here. Oh... what do I do with those backgrounds ?!
send me the pic. I was toying around with making a whole new image, if I ever get a day off, too.
As promised here's what I was able to come up with for a WM7 look theme, for our beloved Sliding Panels
If you want this look, install the .cab below. If you don't like it, uninstall the cab. Simple as that.
Any ideas for improvement are, of course, welcome!
p.s. The cab should prompt you to reboot after it installs. Please reboot to see the changes.
p.s.s Cab updated to include the prettier time icon shown in the screenshots.
Uploaded variations to the defaut cpanels. A light blue and a purple version. Install using the .cabs below and your panels will change colors after a reboot
CAB updated for better handling of appointments with a lot of text.
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All I can say is wow what a beautiful look for the sliding panels. I got to this thread from your post in a thread in the Vox forum. Please make a Landscape/Portraite switching version for the Vox.
Roland
Wow, I like it. I hope you can make this portrait as well
.......................nice
I really like the sides, very very clean and sharp, I would use if they were clear panels.
also..
cant get my clock to look like yours, its a generic white clock.
I have red X for Myfaves icon-I dont know what happened but it is not there when I removed WM7 setting either- damn
my task bar looks like it always has not like yours
maybe ill reload it.
Sharp looking, it's even a hair better than some of what I've seen of WM7, in the drop shadows. Think it will find a way into Ricky's v.2x?
Oh sorry. Didn't realize not everybody has my custom clock icon in the windows directory. DOH! I will update the cab to include that .png in a few minutes.
I COULD make the panels clear. I was thinking of making them a little more "airy" and having a bolder backdrop effect, to simulate the effect of the panel gliding over the background.
Didnt have enough room to upload the centered cabs in the main post, so here they are. These will change the clock panel slightly, to center the operator name and the wifi networks, on the screen. Enjoy.
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Oh sorry. Didn't realize not everybody has my custom clock icon in the windows directory. DOH! I will update the cab to include that .png in a few minutes.
I COULD make the panels clear. I was thinking of making them a little more "airy" and having a bolder backdrop effect, to simulate the effect of the panel gliding over the background.
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I like clear so I can see my background, but your ideas sound cool
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Oh sorry. Didn't realize not everybody has my custom clock icon in the windows directory. DOH! I will update the cab to include that .png in a few minutes.
I COULD make the panels clear. I was thinking of making them a little more "airy" and having a bolder backdrop effect, to simulate the effect of the panel gliding over the background.
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Please do a version with clear panels and on with the blue panels that works on multi orientation phones like the Vox and Wings.
Roland
How to uninstall?
Uninstall the cab ?
I really like this .cab. It looks great on my phone. Thanks for your time.
The only thing I dont like is the clock face looks blurry on my phone. Do you know wherr I can find a better pic?
Again. Thanks for posting this..
I updated the cab in the first post to install the time icon from the screenshots. Please redownload and reinstall Thanks.
Sweet...thanks
is the background wallpaper available?
Sure... why not
Couldn't attach it directly as it's bigger than 20k, so I zipped it.
ack...shadow or this....ACK!!!!!
ARRRRRRRRRRGGHHHH ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
oh wait. do u know of any memory loss on this theme? cuz my regular sliding panels, i get noticeable memory loss. like when i reboot, i get like 20mb of free memory right, but maybe few hours later, 15mb free. and it would go down more during 2 or 3 days then i have to reboot to get it back up.
what u think? any1?
This is CHome with a different look... it's not really a theme. It's just Chome with a different look. So whatever "problems" you had with Chome, you'll have with this look as well. I reboot my phone at least once a day, you don't ?! And who cares if you go down to 15 megs, as long as you're not down to like 1-2.. you're fine.
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This is CHome with a different look... it's not really a theme. It's just Chome with a different look. So whatever "problems" you had with Chome, you'll have with this look as well. I reboot my phone at least once a day, you don't ?! And who cares if you go down to 15 megs, as long as you're not down to like 1-2.. you're fine.
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well, to be able to to play Nintendo and SEGA, i need at least 9-10mb free memory or it'll lag too bad or it wont play at all. and no, i dont reboot once a day. i try to reboot once a week or less.
thanks its so much better than green.
I know everyone is really into having slim panels. Maybe not everyone, but enough that it is it's own craze. Anyway, I am trying to steer away from that idea just to see what is possible with the homescreen. I have made some Big panels for everyone to check out. They work perfectly.
I want to say that so far there are cprs for big panels for the HTC, 6 Day Forecast!!!, and Normal with background layouts. I will finish the others later. I need to not talk out of my butt and say I will get this done now, it will probably be the end of the weekend. I will do all of the CHomeWeather layouts and the standard 320x240 layout.
Below are the new, updated screenshots. They are sweet. Also, in the zip is a copy of the screenshots and the NEW CPR's. You have to unzip the zip to your pc. Next open up the extracted files and notice they say big at the end of the name before their file extension, .cpr.
Just rename the cpr you want to use to the same name it has now, just delete the part that says "big". That's it, drop into your cpr folder in the CHomeWeather folder and agree to overwrite. That's it. Now your panels are big. I will try to get with Organic to see if he is interested in including these layouts in his next release.
Thanks to Organic for giving me the original cprs, and thus saving me a lot of leg work on making sure everyone is using the same cpr's.
By the way, all links, programs, myFaves contacts, soft keys, everything works like it is supposed to.
Leave some feedback. I will try to make the changes that are most popular. Hope you like.
Update: I finished the iPhone layout. It looks really nice, I think. Same rules apply about renaming the cpr. Enjoy. Check out post 2 for the new screenshot!!!!!!!!!!!
Updated Pics: now includes iPhone
Here's the rest of the screenshots I have.
Update: Added ss of the iPhone layout. These are all the new weather v3.
not bad man not bad at all, I usually prefer the slim but these seem pretty nice. I will give them a try once you post it up. Thanks man.
I think you have a lot of wasted space. Might as well make use of the extra space.... right ?
Thanks for the input. I must say, I thought you would realize, I haven't altered it at all other than make the panels large. I haven't adjusted the images or text for crap. I will though, today. Just wait. I think even you, Org will have something nice to say. Thanks for the opinion anyway. All input is greatly appreciated.
Later.
I will be done with this tonight. I just got home, so it will take a few, but it will get done, tonight.
Bigger panels with more information on would be, as my kids would say, awesome.
Is there a way to mix panel size? Larger ones for weather info, smaller for single items like battery life?
Or am I being unrealistic and ungrateful?
alright.....
The way this works does not allow different sizes for panels. I would love to say there is a way around this, but I don't think there is. Each panels size is declared in the panel itself, but also at the beginning of the file, it states what size panels are in general, so the phone knows how to navigate and properly display them. If, you get it wrong in the panel, stuff just gets cutoff, no big deal
But, if you do this at the beginning, it makes the scrolling "off" and none of the screen works like it is supposed to. I tried.
So, hope this answers your question. I will be writing these files. I don't know if the new weather panel cprs are different than the old ones, yet. I will find out tonight. Also, I will add cprs for the default cpr for the landscape layout. Later
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Bigger panels with more information on would be, as my kids would say, awesome.
Is there a way to mix panel size? Larger ones for weather info, smaller for single items like battery life?
Or am I being unrealistic and ungrateful?
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New Update, check out the 1st post
good job on the update man, respect the work you do out here man good job once again.
Outer, the big panels look nice. Good work! It's good to have more choices. Now we have slim, regular, or fat daddy. Keep it up.
question is....in a regular panel you are restricted to 79 or 80 characters to be printed into that panel.
Can you figure out how many characters you are restricted to in these fatties?
Hopefully you are allowed more characters.
You have the same number of characters available. Just because you make the PNG bigger, doesn't mean you get more characters too. lol
What would be a nice trick is.. either using bigger fonts or using BOLD typefaces And of course... maybe center everything... like the page counters
Since Outer posted these, I've been playing with them and came up with a few variations.
I'm thinking a Nokia with a really big, rectangular screen
...but then, Nokia's were always my favorite phones.
Update: Iphone layout added
I have now added the iphone update. I personally like the new 6day forecast layout, but if you still like the old styles and use one of the other panels for forecast data, then here you go. This was the favorite for everyone for ever. Try it out. The new layout looks good. The new cpr's are in the 1st post. The screenshot is updated in the 2nd post. Enjoy!!!
I really like Wisbar Advanced Desktop 2 and love how customizable it is. I have experience inc reating skins/themes for it but see there are a lot of poeple out therethat have done it for many other lower resolution devices. We need to have some folks do the same for wvga 480x800 devices.
Some of you have probably noticed other asking people to share cabs and such for themes that look like windows vista or OSX desktops and these were done with WAD2. I will share links to some of those screen shots and will post mine and the files (they are in the 5th link down with install instructions) it takes to use mine. I would really love to see this thread grow in this community because i think these are the best themes yet.
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13377 - this is my personal favorite theme, vista looks great!!! but it is qvga
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=60 - this is the WAD2 company forums, specifically the themse section. Lots of good stuff in here, but all fo rlower resolution devices
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14619 - one of the few vga themes
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14618 - WVGA theme!!! Havent tried it yet but will
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13631 - this has a wvga version which i do have running on my HD (See below for my screenshot). Instructions included on this if you want to try it out
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14588 - blackberry bold theme, of course also QVGA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKxxG52tsO4 - a youtube video of the iphone skin/theme
http://www.wp-wordpress.com/skin-manila2d-for-wad2-17-11-08 - a manila 2d skin for WAD2
http://skinswad2.blogspot.com/ - Android skin/theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtGprrihqbU - Youtube video of a neat "Dare to touch" theme
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14312- OSX, very nice
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13188 - crysis
OK that is probably enough examples to spar you interest. So who knows this stuff and wants to help this HD community get some of this going? There are some efforts over in the xperia forum working on 1 themes but all in all I don't see much at all going on and I personally do not understand why this isn't hotter than it is.
Excellent thread starter. I wanted to know what could be done with WAD and the HD Touch. The themes you have thumbnailed look really good.
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Thank you very much well after toying for it for just a half hour I have figured out a LOT of cool stuff. So far I have taken the theme you see above and added a second page which it transitions to with the swipe of finger to the right. n that page I added a link to a phone number which can have it dial or bring up the summary to select mobile, home, office etc. I see that as my contacts page. Wow i am excited about adding all kinds of pages now haha. For now I must stuff though and take my son to the movies then I am going to be up real late perfecting this. I hope others find this as fun as me and maybe we can become an authority in WAD2 skinning for the HD!!!
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This has a wvga version which i do have running on my HD (See below for my screenshot). Instructions included on this if you want to try it out
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Yep, i'd like to try it. But i don't see this exact theme on lakeridge page: your one has only background different, and the instructions there lead to the same result? Since i really like the way you have disposed the page
EDIT: ok, figured myself
I tried the WVGA theme you are currently running and like it very much, I think WAD2 has tons of potential, if only the WVGA theme didn't need to dPad to customise the screen positions ...
Maybe I am missing something, but every link I try to download this theme from i seem to get the VGA version (you can check in the files the background is 640 pixels in height). And when i try to install the theme the layout is completly distorted.
Anyone has an idea on this?
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I tried the WVGA theme you are currently running and like it very much, I think WAD2 has tons of potential, if only the WVGA theme didn't need to dPad to customise the screen positions ...
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i connect my device to my pc and connect to it with mymobile. The arrow keys on your pc will then act as the dpad Am going to post what I have been able to accomplish in a bit
ok slowly figuring out this WAD2 thing. Here are my efforts in modding the theme shown on the first page. I added addition pages, all of which run really fast and all use finger gestures (swipe right a page, swipe left a different page, up addition pages similar to the one you're on etc etc)
Cool....probably can use dual today to switch....
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Cool....probably can use dual today to switch....
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well depends on what you want. I dont want TF3D so when I press the home key I can jsut go straight to the main today screen. You could also jsut install second today and put a widget on the desktop to it. kinda kimitless to whatyou can do with WAD2 as long as you are willing to put in the time to create it. im loving development with it
This is the obvious next step in designing themes which make the phone more usable and unique.......now just to figure out how to do it
Has anyone here tried using the mobile vista theme on HD? I got WAD2 and tried it, but its all small resolution like if it was designed for diamond... Is it just me or is there a 480x800 version out there?
Cheers
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Has anyone here tried using the mobile vista theme on HD? I got WAD2 and tried it, but its all small resolution like if it was designed for diamond... Is it just me or is there a 480x800 version out there?
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yes and you should be able to fix it pretty easily. just click and hold on the desktop to change it to author mode. Next just click and hold on the icons and graphics you want to move and select "move"
It will tell you to move it with the D pad which the HD doesnt have obviously. I use a program called "Mymobile" to display my HD screen on my pc. By doing that I can move things by using the arrrow keys on my pc Install Mymobile (its free) and get creative.
Just wanted to share my progress in creating my own theme. I have also included the exported theme here but have no idea how importing a theme works with WAD2. In the settings there is a button "Import theme" and assume it imports all icons and such but someone will have to try it and let me know. Obviously if you do not have the programs and contacts I have linked in here they will not work on yours so you would have to update the link and all that good stuff. Sceenshots are below and you can go to http://www.swampthing.net/grass.zip to download the theme.
Navigation:
1. Pressing the unlock icon on the initial page brings you into the desktop page.
2. Swiping finger up on the desktop screen (the one with the cloud/temperature, clock, taskbar etc) will lock the screen to the initial page.
3. Swiping your finger from left to right and from right to left progresses through the pages.
4. On contacts and applications pages, swiping your finger up and down brings you through additional contact and app pages
5. Pressing various icons will start programs associated with them such as the clock icon will bring up the windows time/alarm settings
You have to unzip the theme and copy it to your device before you can import it. ENJOY
Future Enhancements:
1. I will add an additional weather page by swiping finger from top to bottom with an alternate city
2. I will put a map together of the navigation at some point. Small unfinished one is attached below
2. Use my imagination to think of something else
Looks really good. I do like the way you have played with this. I think I will be having a play soon as I like the layout possibilities within WAD2.
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vista theme.. but low resolution
WAD2 Themes for HD...
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WAD2 Themes for HD...
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looks great. keep up the good work!! Post your themes if you can
Iphone WAD2 Theme
working on this one. This is just the front page and th elocked screen. Coming along nicely though
mallmanz carbon fiber WAD2
Not sure how to share this but if someone knows WAD2 well enough please post how we can extract and share these. Enjoy
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12524
Does this help?
Your theme looks good. There does seem to be a concerted amount of effort required to manipulate the themes that are around there.
I will have a try with yours....
Regards