Using Codename : Dashboard to
Make Windows Look Like Longhorn
Here is a screenshot of my everyday desktop. If you look at the Dashboard on the right side of the screen, you will notice that I have DScaler 4.1.7 for watching live TV where the TV is covering the Media Player on the Dashboard. The TV is of course resized to fit on top of the media player to make DScaler look like it is part of the Dashboard even though it isn't. FYI, when I want to watch my personal TV recordings, I turn off the TV and use the Media Player to play my divx recordings of my saved TV shows and movies. (FYI, DScaler is using my ATI TV Wonder card for the live TV which I can double click on the TV display to go to full screen -- and I record TV with my other TV card, a Creative Video Blaster Digital VCR card, on the same PC using the Creative card's PVR software and then later doing divx conversion to make smaller video files for more permanent storage and so I can play the divx recordings in Media Player and in PowerDVD. In the QuickMenu, the "Live Television" menu selection is for activating DScaler software and the "Personal TV" menu selection is for activating the Creative card's PVR tivo-like software.)
DScaler is open source -- I would love to see a DScaler TV component for Codename:Dashboard -- the main DScaler site is at http://www.dscaler.com and the source can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/deinterlace/
My desktop uses the basic Luna generic theme for Windows and the Blue v1.0 for the Dashboard. I've been using this since Win98 -- I've since upgraded to WinXP but when I was using Win98 (really Win98SE) I was also using
Windowsblinds and Objectbar to make Win98 look like WinXP. I'm using WinXP now and still using Windowblinds for when I want to change the themes to something more fancy as well as using Objectbar for easy customization of the taskbar and the start menu.
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