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BackNews Beta 2!


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Hey, I have another beta of BackNews, here's today's build. BETA 2!

Check out http://www.powernetworked.com/gi/ for more information and download links.

New builds get posted all the time, and the program will have an auto-update feature built-in, but that will come later.

Right now I'm looking for people who want to do some nice skins for it. The format is pretty simple.

I'll post the information on the site after the beta 2 release.

I need people to provide me with some mirrors, it's only 570k.

E-mail me @ jimbo11883@adelphia.net for sending in a skin, become a mirror, or bugs and suggestions.

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Excellent work - this is what I've been waiting for for a long time!

If you need a mirror host, I can throw up a link on my webspace (AT&T, always super fast and never down).

A few comments/suggestions :

Is it possible to create a refresh on demand option? I realize you can force a refresh by re-choosing a backend server - but a simple "refresh" option in the context menu would be nice (so you can leave a longer update period in the settings, and only refresh when needed to relieve a little server loads, etc.) Something like double-clicking in the window auto-refreshes would also be really cool.

Would it be possible to make an option to have it completely transparent, no background/skin - IOW, just the text on a transparent background to completely blend in with the desktop (like Desktop Weather, Coolmon, ADC, etc)

Excellent work!

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Thanks for all the suggestions.

I'll be adding more appearance options soon. (No Skin, Desktop Mode)

Here's some simple help for the program:

The tray icon is simple, double click to show/hide, single click to make BackNews the foreground window, right click for the main menu.

There will be a skinned refresh button as well as an option in the main menu.

To add a backend url, just type in a name and the url, then click add, here's some backend url's for NeoWin:

https://www.neowin.net/backend.php - Main News

https://www.neowin.net/backend.php?page=forum - Latest Forum Posts

If there's anything else, please let me know.

My web site will be updated soon with all sorts of info.

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Guys, Beta 2 Build 1020 is available at http://www.powernetworked.com/gi/ . There is a new default skin, plus the addition of new appearances for default window, desktop window, and skinned window selection. The desktop appearance can have the text colors changed to suit your wallpaper, of course. Please send any bugs/suggestions to jimbo11883@adelphia.net, or this forum thread.

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WOW!

need I say more? :D

Had one crash - trying to go from the windowed mode to the default skin - but haven't been able to duplicate it to record the error message. Restarting the program cleared it up.

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