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Kaiser Wallpaper Photoshop template

I have seen some pretty bad wallpapers here lately and after seeing this horrendously stretched out photo on my g/f phone that was tiled when in landscape view, I thought it might be helpful to post a small tutorial on how to make a background correctly.
About the template:
As you most likely know the Kaiser has a QVGA screen (240x320) and 154dpi resolution. The dpi setting makes a big difference in the quality of the final image. This template is setup for 320x320 with 154dpi.
How to use the template:
1. open "Tilt Wallpaper Template.psd" in photoshop
2. turn on the guide lines by going to View --> Show --> Guides
3. Find a nice image on the net then right click and copy it
4. highlight the image layer in photoshop
5. click edit paste
6. now just move and resize the image till it fits the screen
a. remember to keep to aspect ratio of the original image.
b. click the view layer box (the eyball) next to "Landscape preview" and "Portrait preview" to see what portrait and landscape versions of your wallpaper will look like.
c. OPTIONAL (This creates either a 240x320 or 320x240 image this is only useful when making backgrounds for programs that don't support 320x320 images like S2U2) when you have your image all lined up enable the "Landscape preview" or "Portrait preview" depending on what you want and select image --> trim --> "top left pixel color" --> ok. This will trim the image to the desired size.
7. now save the image as an PNG and you are done. (I find PNG to load faster than JPEG's on the homescreen)
**note:
You can set a 320x320 reloution image as the wallpaper and then the image won't tile in landscape view. 320x320 is usually the best choice for an wallpaper size.
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Thanks for this, will try it out sometime.
Dave

Thanks for the template -- photoshop here I come...

[LAYOUT] Scrolling Dock Banner/Icon (Howto)

Ok, so few people asked me how I placed a Banner like Icon in-place of my dock. I wanted to answer directly but thought why not share it with everyone else. So here a tutorial on how to do it.
First, this is how it looks like
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And a demo Vid
If you think its cool, then read on.
It's fairly easy, but quite tricky. Here we go.
What you need:
Launcher Pro
Banner/Icon (Template links later)
Desktop Visualizer
1. Set your home-screen row to 7 (for a 6 row home-screen setup). (This seems to be the most efficient value for me)
2. Now add a desktop visualizer 4x1 widget
3. With desktop visualizer, select your desired banner/template as your image and set the action as none (as seen on the video below)
4. Place the new widget on the bottom most part of your home-screen.
5. Now back to LPP preferences, set your home-screen row back to 6.
6. Might take long to load but there you have it, a scrolling banner on your dock.
Notes:
I believe you can use any number of homescreen rows from 4 up to 9 but I havent tested it yet and I only have a template for a 6 row homescreen.
In the video, I used a 5 column x 6 row setup opposed to the 4 x 6 setup on the tutorial to lessen the changes from stock layout.
forgot to mention, for best results, use transparent dock ang dock-shortcut icons.
Banner templates:
4x1 (right click and "save as")
5x1 (right click and "save as")
The Grey part is what the dock covers, blank part should always stay transparent. Just paste your banner over the gray part and make sure that nothing overlaps then delete the grey part entirely.

Cant seem to make youtube link to work, just click here and here to watch the vids

Thanks for the tut. You gave me an Idea on a cool homescreen. Mind sharing the text icons used on the vid?

Here is your video:

Program modifications of standard keyboard HTC (for all standard keyboards by HTC).

Author: MoonNah
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It is a mini-programm you can make your own keyboard in a kind you like!
The Mod are:
- Add (delete) navigating arrows under the block of the basic keyboard
- Change color of the basic and additional font of the keyboard
- Cleans shadow illumination of letters of the keyboard (thanks jamrecords!!!)
- Changes background pictures of the keyboard
How to work:
1. Download and install ApkTools, it is possible to find on this site.
2. Download and unpack my aplet in a folder with ApkTools.
3. For the first modification is necessary to use original НТС keyboard from a Rom (or pull out from phone) (with not modified colors of fonts, otherwise to change a font to you will not be possible). The Original look like:
http://sdl2.4pda.ru/1257690/2011_11_07_13_02_55.jpg?000471dc5eb49ad04eb7aebc0000000034033d7f0e7e38ea749730abea30fb9a
4. Unpack apk keyboard by ApkTools
5. Start my program BL_HTCIMECHANGE.exe
6. In the left top of window choose unpacked folder HTC_IME
7. After a choice of folder in the program list of templates for portrait and landscape display of keyboard will be filled
8. Select a colors of basic and additional color of font for keyboard (for convenience on absolutely black and absolutely white background it will be displayed texts of the colors chosen by you)
9. Choose a keyboard background (if you want to change it) in the right top corner in a window, after a choice you will see this picture in the right bottom of window. Attention!!! the picture should have the size of your screen display (for today the program support only the permission of Sensation 540*960).
10. Now we put ticks in a penultimate window which will define what to do to the program
- To add to (remove) arrows
- To change colors of fonts of the keyboard
- To change a keyboard background
11. We press button Create and we wait when programm finished!
12. The keyboard button redrawning as you want
13. Collect keyboard by ApkTools, put it to your device and enjoy! Looks like (example)
14. At repeated change of the same keyboard you can begin at once with point 5 then the program will opened with your options of color of fonts.
Download: BL_HTCIMECHANGE_BY_MOONNAH

[APP][2.2+] klick todo , best suited for desire HD

Glad to annouce the latest release of Klick Todo ! This has been heavily designed to work well with HTC desire !
Thanks to the xda forum we are able to make some radical design changes to make the best Todo Manager for daily use.
No fancy pant UI to memorize to jot down your tasks and get them done !
Download Here : https://market.android.com/details?id=com.coderecipe.ktodo
What's in this version:
Date/Alarm text changes color on tap ( feedback )
Change in Clock icon to indicate Due Dates
Tasks are marked overdue based on time
Relative / Fuzzy time display for pending tasks
Performance improvements
New help image added ( menu -> help )
Color change / Fix for low priority tasks ( changed from yellow to green )
Draw issues fixed for priority dialog
Usage guidelines :
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Clicking on any task gets you the priority dialog. Use the priority dialog to set Low/ Medium / High priority
ON/OFF with an alarm icon allows you to toggle or set the Alarm/Notification on the task. ( Alarm cannot be set on a date older than the current date )
Clicking on the Date display ( with a small clock icon ) opens the Date Slider dialog which allows you to set Year/Month/Hour/Minutes for the task.
Long click on the task allows you to Edit the task or delete it.
Use the check-box on the left of each task to mark the task as complete.
For deleting more than one task which are marked complete.. use the Menu -> delete Completed options menu.
Download Here : https://market.android.com/details?id=com.coderecipe.ktodo
What do the icons and their colors denote ?

[wip][how to]learn making icons in a easy way[beginner friendly]

HELLO GUYS. THERES SO MANY ICON PACKS ALL AROUND US. HAVE YOU GUYS EVER DREAMT ABOUT MAKING SUCH COOL ICONS YOURSELF? BUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE TO AND HOW TO START? NOW LEARN MAKING THEM IN EASY AND BEGINNER FRIENDLY WAY HERE.
THINGS THAT YOU MUST HAVE:
1. Photoshop (Any version you prefer. but i would suggest Photoshop cs3+)
2. Original Ideas.
3. Patience.
4. Bases (Explained Later)
LETS GET STARTED:
1. We will start by creating a new document in photoshop. For that, open up Photoshop and Select File->New and select document size as 144x144 just like shown in the image
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2. Now that the document is created, we need a background for the image. Follow the images below to get a good background
3.Now open up the layer panel from the right side of the screen. You will see something like this there:
4. Add a new layer by selection the new layer button as shown in the image below
5. Double click on the background layer, And you will see a popup like this:
6. Select OK.
7. Now lets get to the next step: Making The Background
8. Click on that eye icon beside layer zero as shown in the screenshot and hide the eye icon
9. Now select the following things as shown by arrow in the image below. Rounded Rectangle Tool from the TOOL BAR, Fill Pixel from the top bar and set its radius to 30 px
10. Now select a good colour and click and drag your left mouse button from ARROW 1 to ARROW 2 as shown in the image below.
11. Now lets have a look what bases means.. I am giving a starter package of 25 stock app bases that you can use for learning purpose. Download link below.
12. Simply drag and drop the bases just like i did with twitter logo. Collect as many bases like this as u can.. Just keep in mind, DONT KANG. ASK FOR PERMISSION BEFORE USING ANYONE'S ICONS.
DOWNLOAD BASES HERE

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