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New Messageauto-hide (modified 0 times) zhensel
OK, this may help you or not depending on whether you run mostly a single application or like to, say, turn Calligrapher text capturing on/off at your leisure or see the amount of battery life remaining. Anyway, if you want to enable auto-hide on the start menu as you can in windows by right clicking on it, open up your registry editor and set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\AutoHide\Default to 1 (instead of 0). This will hide the start menu until you tap on the bottom edge of the screen to raise it. It'll then drop back down after a couple seconds of disuse. Basically, if you only use the bottom bar for its start menu, this mod is for you. If you multitask or feel the need to glance at the taskbar occassionally, this will add an extra tap to your task which could, given enough use, take away hours of your life. Of course, that would take years of epods use. Anyway, follow this mod at your own risk! :)
02-28-2001 19:54:15

New MessageRE:auto-hide (modified 0 times) zhensel
BTW, I found this while trying to find a registry entry to turn off the bloody clicking noise made when you tap the screen (it can be turned off with the ezex mute, but then you lose everything.) I think the sound is made by the driver rather than by playing a wav file (I searched the epods for wav files, but didn't find any that matched), so it would probably have to be a registry fix to get rid of it. I'd like to be able to take notes in class while secretly listening to mp3s via an earbud headphone without having a click sound every time I do anything.

A couple other related questions:
1. Anyone know how to save a playlist with Xaudio? It seems to be busted in that respect. Oh, if you have Xaudio installed to a storage card and want to associate it with mp3 files, you have to change the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Xaudio.MPEGAudio.Layer.3.File\shell\Open©ommand\default to *"\Storage Card\Xaudio\xaudio.exe" "%1"* <- you need to copy everything between the *'s. The default way it associates files gets fubared with the space in "Storage Card," so you need to pop some quotes around it. Fun eh?
2. The calligrapher sketchpad is good enough for notetaking, but there was a thread earlier about something better... unfortunately no links were provided and a search was futile. What are you all using? I can't see anyway to move the .ink files in a readable format to my computer, and they can't be printed from the epods, and I'd like to be able to print out my notes. I was really suprised at how easy note taking was with this thing - plus I can switch over to tetris (errr blocks) when it gets boring. Unfortunately playing chess with the person next to me is a little too overt :)
3. Still looking for a Kansas City map for Pharos GPS... you still around epoderone?

This thing is much more useful now that I've got a transfer cable that functions. At least radio shack is good for one thing. Now I just need to pick up a cheap pcmia network card to get transfer speeds greater than 1/3 that of my modem. Of course, I could go all out and get a wireless setup and tap into our airport network in the journalism room, but that would take some cash. Plus the shoddy range of it (can't really blame Apple, the school has 8-inch-thick concrete walls and lots of windows) would only let me get reception for a couple hours during the day. I need to convince the journalism teacher to let me install a range extender on the airport UFO (errr station.)

02-28-2001 20:14:33

New MessageRE:auto-hide (modified 0 times) dattguy
This can also be done by selecting the Start button, then Settings and finally Taskbar. You can then select the Auto Hide check box to enable this feature. No hacking is necessary! :)
02-28-2001 20:15:44

New MessageRE:auto-hide (modified 0 times) eggplant
Or, if you have tap-right installed, you can just right-click on the taskbar itself, just like in all other versions of windows. Just select properties and you are there.
02-28-2001 20:28:17

New MessageRE:auto-hide (modified 0 times) zhensel
Bah! Too easy I say :) How do you install "right-tap" anyhow?
02-28-2001 20:36:18

New MessageRE:auto-hide (modified 0 times) dattguy
Tap the Alt key on the keyboard, then tap on the Taskbar. This is also referred to as Alt+Tap. You can use Alt+Tap on the Desktop, in the file browsers, in pIE, while in a Terminal Server session, etc. ...
03-01-2001 21:32:22

New MessageRE:auto-hide (modified 0 times) zhensel
Wow, that helps alot. Too bad I didn't know that before I did the 2.04 hack or I could have actually saved pictures online and copyed text...
03-02-2001 18:15:05

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