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savall21 
Outstanding skin
Do you have any shots of the XM screen?
Will the Radar button work on the Weather page????
Cool.
Thanks for the kind words! It has been a lot of work, as this is my first skin, and a bit of a learning curve is involved for usre.
I have updated the images in the 2nd post with a snap of the XM screen.
EDIT: Screen Captures for EVERY screen is now located Here (There are just to many to clocg up the first 2 posts)
Yes, the radar, temp, and satelite images work. It uses a program I wrote called "WeatherDownloader.exe" to save the images to your local hard drive. There is an .ini file that the program looks for that you can edit to use your favorite weather images, from weather.com, your local TV station ect. You can also set an event in your skin, that when an Internet connection is available to update the images, or if there is an internet connection, they will load when the weather page is displayed. The images are cached to your hard drive, and will remain there, till the images are updated. So you can use your home wireless network to update the images before going off for a drive.
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The only suggestion I would like to make, is to change the font of the song which is playing in the top status bar.
I was actually going for the "dot matrix look" and that's the way it will be released. It is very easy to change the font to what ever you want to suit your oqn tastes in the skin file with a text editor, or with the RR Skin editor.
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like this skin alot can't wait for the .psd files need to change colors unless you are willing to do black back and red letters.
I will release the psd files
The skin will be "as released" as I can not anticipate the infinate color combinations people will/do want. Be forewarned, some of the PSD's are a bit hard to follow! There are LOTS of layers, and I have done my best to make it easy to figgure out, but their not perfect by any means!
Jeep642, thanks for the info on the Sirius hardware.... too little too late
I purchased a XMPC-1000 USB for $45 on Ebay. Was a breeze to get working as it is natively supported by Road Runner.
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Hey John if you need hosting to release it let me know, i'll set you up with an acct on my server
I think I will take you up on that offer, as I do not currently have a server I can put it up on at the moment. Drop me a PM and we can work everything out. THANK YOU!!!
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Will the Radar button work on the Weather page????
Yes, the radar will work, as well as the temp, and satelite images. It uses a program I wrote called "WeatherDownloader.exe" to save the images to your local hard drive. There is an .ini file that the program looks for that you can edit to use your favorite weather images, from weather.com, your local TV station ect. The default images are Entire US maps. You can also set an event in your skin with RR's "Online Indicator" (Good for Wi-Fi Hopping), that when an Internet connection is available to update the images, or if there is an internet connection, they will currently just load when the weather page is displayed. The images are cached to your hard drive, and will remain there, till the images are updated. So you can use your home wireless network to update the images before going off for a drive. Here is a screen capture of the "Satellite" screen.
As for releaseing the skin it is getting pretty close to release.... I would say another week at the most guys. Thanks for your patience, I just want to get as many kinks worked out so there are not a slew of things to fix after the release and all.
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