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  1. Originally posted by haytrain:So, now that I'm gonna buy a new laptop....the question comes up: Is Vista as bad as everyone says it is?

    Also, I still have my installation disc for XP from my old laptop. Can I install that onto the new one?


    Vista's not bad with Service Pack 1, but some things make you wonder why they weren't fixed - and most things are much different to XP. The Control Panel is a case in point as is the start menu.

    The XP disc from your old laptop can be used, but you more than likely need to find drivers because most laptops with Vista have drivers only for Vista. You need to ask whether the laptop (at wherever you buy it from) supports downgrading to XP. Considering its official support period is extended for another four years, I see no reason as to why a shop or a company wouldn't allow some sort of downgrade.


  2. At the moment, you can have a tethered jailbreak, which means in order to restart the iPod, you're gonna need to connect it to your computer to make the jailbreak take effect again. The 2G should be done in maybe a month or two - the last bit left is a simple 8 bytes of code, which is taking a little longer than expected.

    Dan, have you checked out macthemes2.net? They have all the themes and upcoming plug-ins. Frostbite is an interesting one coming through, which allows you to have your charging battery on a background as well as HomeScreen2.0 for viewing appointments, weather, timezones (and possibly a TV guide) etc on your lock screen - which I currently use.

    And in Cydia, some more essentials you gotta check out: hClipboard, SBSettings and Supreme Preferences. All wonderful shit.

    How's your theme going Steve?



    All you lot yacking on about your various iPod majiggahs...the screen for my Zen Nano Plus died so I've turned it into a 30GB portable memory stick and bought a Sansa 8GB jobby for £40 from Currys', there's a bargain for you


    There's a word for ya. I like it a lot.


  3. i havent had the time to work on it as much as I'd like...certainly there wil be time this weekend though


  4. I might get mine up later. Plus I'd like to eventually design a theme, something really interesting and unique.


  5. The main theme is Glass Orbz. There's a couple of customs - I have chromium blue in the background meaning my play screens etc have a nice silver/blue finish. The wallpaper just is user wallpaper put at the top of my preferences in Winterboard and then I sent the NLOTH jpg to my e-mail and went from there. I also have Apple WiFi at the top of winterboard to overwrite the Glass Orbz default.

    Thanks for the positive comments
  6. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    Dan, have you checked out macthemes2.net? They have all the themes and upcoming plug-ins. Frostbite is an interesting one coming through, which allows you to have your charging battery on a background as well as HomeScreen2.0 for viewing appointments, weather, timezones (and possibly a TV guide) etc on your lock screen - which I currently use.

    And in Cydia, some more essentials you gotta check out: hClipboard, SBSettings and Supreme Preferences. All wonderful shit.

    How's your theme going Steve?


    I have Lock Calendar which does something very similar. Just appts though.

    I'll check those things out, ta
  7. Originally posted by haytrain:So, now that I'm gonna buy a new laptop....the question comes up: Is Vista as bad as everyone says it is?

    Also, I still have my installation disc for XP from my old laptop. Can I install that onto the new one?


    So, are you abandoning Mac Jeremy? Down the washed out crappy PC route?
  8. Originally posted by djrlewis:[..]

    The main theme is Glass Orbz. There's a couple of customs - I have chromium blue in the background meaning my play screens etc have a nice silver/blue finish. The wallpaper just is user wallpaper put at the top of my preferences in Winterboard and then I sent the NLOTH jpg to my e-mail and went from there. I also have Apple WiFi at the top of winterboard to overwrite the Glass Orbz default.

    Thanks for the positive comments


    Hey, it's a bloody good first effort, you deserve it. Just be careful with it...a lot of people have a real problem using existing elements to make something else.

    I've left the original WiFi bars alone as they look the best and match with the Matte Graphite interface, until I make up something cooler and modern. The battery is either a number indicator or the original meter redone in black and white (tap to change), and the iPod part is now iPwn.

    You know you can have a Wallpaper.png and LockBackground.png in your theme folder under /Library/Themes and do it that way if you want? I remember Glass Orbz - didn't seem too inspiring to me, but then I take forever to find the perfect icon set, which Glasklart is just that.

    And plenty of MobileSubstrate stuff installed as well - which is way better than having Winterboard plug in everything, plus NoAA for no artwork on the lock screen to display alerts and that sort of stuff. It's great because you see stuff the iPod in stock function, unmodded, can do.

    It makes you think why the default interface is so horrid to look at.
  9. Originally posted by haytrain:So, now that I'm gonna buy a new laptop....the question comes up: Is Vista as bad as everyone says it is?

    Also, I still have my installation disc for XP from my old laptop. Can I install that onto the new one?


    You can install it, the biggest problem you might find attacking you is the SATA drivers. Basicly you need to create a floppy disk with drivers. Then you can load the drivers during the setup. Without these drivers XP can't see your harddrive.

    Now the problem with laptops is that most of them don't have a CD and a floppy drive. In these cases you need to create a XP cd yourself.

    I don't know exactly how. But I'm just trying to give you the heads up

    Vista is not that bad with SP1. Works pretty good and I don't have any complaints. Speed is just a little bit slower than XP on my Dell laptop (D830) .
  10. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    Hey, it's a bloody good first effort, you deserve it. Just be careful with it...a lot of people have a real problem using existing elements to make something else.

    I've left the original WiFi bars alone as they look the best and match with the Matte Graphite interface, until I make up something cooler and modern. The battery is either a number indicator or the original meter redone in black and white (tap to change), and the iPod part is now iPwn.

    You know you can have a Wallpaper.png and LockBackground.png in your theme folder under /Library/Themes and do it that way if you want? I remember Glass Orbz - didn't seem too inspiring to me, but then I take forever to find the perfect icon set, which Glasklart is just that.

    And plenty of MobileSubstrate stuff installed as well - which is way better than having Winterboard plug in everything, plus NoAA for no artwork on the lock screen to display alerts and that sort of stuff. It's great because you see stuff the iPod in stock function, unmodded, can do.

    It makes you think why the default interface is so horrid to look at.


    I haven't quite figured out the whole folder thing yet (using SSH or whatever). One step at a time

    I have Glaskart too, but I just really liked the effect of this one, especially with the album release. No doubt I'll change it again soon.

    I do wonder why Apple don't let you do this stuff officially. It's not like they stop you changing the wallpaper on your actual Mac is it?
  11. Originally posted by djrlewis:[..]

    I haven't quite figured out the whole folder thing yet (using SSH or whatever). One step at a time

    I have Glaskart too, but I just really liked the effect of this one, especially with the album release. No doubt I'll change it again soon.

    I do wonder why Apple don't let you do this stuff officially. It's not like they stop you changing the wallpaper on your actual Mac is it?




    Apple won't let you do it officially for four (supposed) reasons: copyright (isn't MP3 the same thing), battery life (yeah right), support (too slack to help) and lack of development (copy-paste, MMS, all that crap).

    When you go for the SSH route, make sure in Cydia you install OpenSSH, SBSettings as well as Veency and Processes. That makes turning off and on SSH and WiFi and killing stuff that gets stuck, a whole lot easier. I wouldn't use a jailbroken touch without it ever.



    Originally posted by RistoYou can install it, the biggest problem you might find attacking you is the SATA drivers. Basicly you need to create a floppy disk with drivers. Then you can load the drivers during the setup. Without these drivers XP can't see your harddrive.

    Now the problem with laptops is that most of them don't have a CD and a floppy drive. In these cases you need to create a XP cd yourself.

    I don't know exactly how. But I'm just trying to give you the heads up

    Vista is not that bad with SP1. Works pretty good and I don't have any complaints. Speed is just a little bit slower than XP on my Dell laptop (D830).


    Better than I could have ever explained. We got a real tech-head in here.

    It's called slipstreaming, you add the drivers to the CD, compile it and then use that to install. Kind of a custom job. I have one for XP but no decent drivers for video cards, sound, USB2.0 etc. There's heaps of articles around, sites like arstechnica and Gizmodo and Engadget have them in more detail.



    And what my touch looks like:







    I ended up removing the play icon in the status bar as well as the iPod Now Playing button, because it looks odd and out-of-place (plus no need), and no cover-flow because it looks horrible and just adds more memory leaks, which ain't good.

    I also changed the font and used a lot of transparency and pale blue effects.
  12. Browsing the web with my iPod Touch. This little machine kicks ass!
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