The Blog o' v3ritas

New PreThemer... THEME!

2009-11-24T22:15:00.001-08:00

New theme, inspired by the Token Icons made by ~brsev @ DeviantArt!! It's a very simple theme, the icons are mostly dark (with the exception of those that use their app icon as a notification [afaik just 'Feeds' for now]) which is white. I have also left a post for PreThemer @ the forums asking him to add a few more apps to the 3rd Party icons page ( Backgrounds, Flixter, Spaz, wIRC, Installer, & Luna Manager), since at the moment, those are the only icons on my device that cannot be themed. I am trying to get as many UI elements done as i can, to make this a more complete theme. Currently, one user has asked that the iPhone Messaging Bubbles be included in this theme, i have made a separate theme with that patch (i personally do not like the look of the iPhone messaging), however, any major updates to the theme will be happening to the original Token Icons Theme, with the iPhone Messaging Patch version lagging behind. If anyone wants to deal with that specific theme, feel free, as i am not really interested in updating the original, saving, re-uploading, & applying the patch to the new version.

Anyway... Enjoy!

PS:

I meant to include in this post, for the seach-bing.png, i left a little 'easter egg' of sorts, for other users. Bing/(Micro$oft) is attempting to buy off providers, paying them to remove their results from Google, & yet be available on bing, removing results from Google searches. Of course, i am against this (why should results be available on one provider & not another) & the png is a small attempt to show this ;).

~Hope you agree.

Two Simple webOS Patches

2009-11-18T23:36:00.000-08:00

One of the patches (Hide Amazon MP3 App) has already been added to the webos-internals feed (via Preware [i think Preload as well, i only use Preware though, so it's the only one i can confirm 100%]) but i still wanted to post the patches anyway.

Hide Amazon MP3 App (Available via Preware)
Hide Sprint Navigation App (Submitted to the feed on 11/19/2009)

I know they're not very elaborate patches, but i had to get started somewhere. Simply json patches are a start. I hope to develop apps for webOS that i plan to release for free. Currently i don't have any revolutionary ideas, but i am firm on the fact that any apps i develop, i want to release for free. Even if the Palm App Catalog doesn't accept them, they will remain available through Preware once developed.

Palm Pre Themes

2009-11-18T21:22:00.000-08:00

To start off, i might as well mention the Palm Pre themes i have. At the moment, they include:

Star Trek XI**
PIPBOY 3000
v3ritas (started as a personal theme, but still had significant downloads)
Windows Mobile 6.5
Twilight: Edward Cullen
LCARS

**There has been "controversy" (for lack of a better word) over my Star Trek XI theme & TerryMcGinnis' theme. At first i was bothered that they were similar, but then i realized, i should have been happy that other users were interested in Star Trek. One of Terry's recent blog posts discuss the issue of his themes being rated low, lowering their ratings on the site. I have messaged TerryMcGinnis & told him how i feel on this issue (that it was a low blow, & not fair to him as a Themer) & if he wanted, i would remove my Star Trek XI theme so his would be the only one. I want users to rate themes based on how they like them, not on whether they were 'copied'/repeats or not. Hopefully this issue will be resolved. Again, i would like to apologize to TerryMcGinnis over the ratings. I did not rate his themes low, or ask anyone else to, but i still feel like i lead to the low ratings of his themes.