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Published: 2009-08-17 15:52:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 47011; Favourites: 61; Downloads: 6624
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Description Beast and Tame Skin
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This skin all started from taipan-snake's Homescreen Rainmeter, the Menu Style, this idea is common yet very rare to find one (including me!) Bravo!
Building this skin just gave me headache and wasted my whole weekend! My notebook crashed for four times! But today, here is the gift for you!
The reason why I named this skin 'Beast and Tame' because the 'Beast' is very consuming your CPU resource, around 20%-30% continually in my 1.6 GHz CentrinoDuo processor, vice versa the 'Tame' only consume a little bit.
the 'Beast' just have animation method compare with the 'Tame' yet I don't know why it's very consuming CPU usage, that's why I seperate into two configs. All up to you, which you gonna choose, the 'Beast' or the 'Tame'.
SEE the preview before USE it!

Version
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Beast and Tame updated 02/01/2011
- weather fixed, don't use accuweather.com anymore
- fixed location, rise and set time
- minor changes for weather icon file
- don't use CoreTemp plugin,instead I use speedfan plugin

Beast and Tame features
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Home - Date, Time, Gmail, Uptime, Location, AccuWeather(today)
Weather - AccuWeather(today and the next two days), Sunrise and Sunset(today)
Notes - Txt Viewer
Viewer - Image Viewer
System - CPU Temperature, CPU Usage, RAM Usage, Power, Harddisk (used space), Network (upload and download)
Animation Method Menu (Beast Skin only)
Show and Hide Menu (Tame Skin only)

Font and Wallpaper
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Font - HelveticaNeue LT 25 UltLight (same with taipan-snake's Homescreen Rainmeter)
the reason is I didn't include because this font is commercial
Wallpaper - [link]
Lumin by mac-ray

Setting the Variables
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GmailUsername and GmailPassoword - Set your Gmail username and password
WeatherCode - Go to [link] to find the weather code for your location
Note - Address of the note that you wanna show in this skin
Path - Address of the image that you want to show in this skin


Credits
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- Homescreen Rainmeter Final by ~taipan-snake ([link] )
- Enigma by ~Kaelri ([link] )
- Touch Diamond Weather png by ~joshj132 ([link] )
- Touchflo weather HD by ~joshj132 ([link] )
- Hard Drive Replacement Icons by ~bogo-d ([link] )
- Network II by ~Skynix ([link] )
- "ecqlipse 2" PNG by *chrfb ([link] )
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Comments: 49

DeepKum [2013-06-21 02:27:14 +0000 UTC]

Great RM skin. Works g8.

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Nega-Akaia [2010-12-04 23:00:43 +0000 UTC]

Awesome, Thanks man.

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tonyluffy [2010-06-04 10:53:25 +0000 UTC]

nice,i like it,thank you

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ld-jing In reply to tonyluffy [2010-07-23 08:49:11 +0000 UTC]

i like it too! i use it everyday anyway!

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Oceansolei [2010-02-22 13:12:13 +0000 UTC]

Hello,
You can expand the frame of the skin in 1280x768 pixel format, only the frame? to cover the entire screen, leaving unchanged the elements that are inside.
If you can do, where I have to change within the file .ini?

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ld-jing In reply to Oceansolei [2010-03-04 10:21:28 +0000 UTC]

Cannot do that because i use the images not using the code to create the background.. sorry..

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pratchettfan777 [2010-01-28 01:42:06 +0000 UTC]

I truly DIG your skin bud and will modify it for my desktop. There is one problem that I can see in the code though.

The log file notes that it cannot load 0.png . When I look in the folder the weather icons start at 1.png, but there is an na.png . Is this what it should be leading instead of 0.png??? Thanks in advance !

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ld-jing In reply to pratchettfan777 [2010-02-04 07:48:35 +0000 UTC]

I didn't know about this problem before. yeap, this is no 0.png file..

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fredlicurgo [2009-12-17 01:46:08 +0000 UTC]

Well done man!

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DevilDuckToxic [2009-11-20 00:16:52 +0000 UTC]

ill have to use this first .. then jump to mad math after a while

thx 4 the great work

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rivastreetrep [2009-09-20 10:44:29 +0000 UTC]

How do you change the temp from Celsius to Fahrenheit?

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ld-jing In reply to rivastreetrep [2009-09-21 08:47:17 +0000 UTC]

weather or CPU temperature?

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rivastreetrep In reply to ld-jing [2009-09-21 21:29:49 +0000 UTC]

Weather

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ld-jing In reply to rivastreetrep [2009-09-28 08:26:19 +0000 UTC]

Right click the skin, go to 'Skin Menu/Edit Skin'

In the Weather section, find the URL.. you can see the word "metric=1" change the value 1 to 0..

Also you have to change the word Postfix="Β°C" (you can find with Ctrl +F and paste that word) and change to Postfix="Β°F"

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rivastreetrep In reply to ld-jing [2009-09-29 05:06:51 +0000 UTC]

Thanx

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sLm4ever [2009-08-30 17:23:42 +0000 UTC]

wonderful! ... I really liked it

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ld-jing In reply to sLm4ever [2009-08-31 05:04:42 +0000 UTC]

thanks mate

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guzzorustyjoe [2009-08-24 13:37:53 +0000 UTC]

Great skin, love the HD icons

[link]

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ld-jing In reply to guzzorustyjoe [2009-08-25 03:55:14 +0000 UTC]

thank mate

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incoherential [2009-08-20 11:21:12 +0000 UTC]

only problem is, I can't find the fonts anywhere...so it picks up the default which looks awful..

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ld-jing In reply to incoherential [2009-08-20 12:25:58 +0000 UTC]

Okay, i will try find the substitute font..
Wait a moment..

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incoherential In reply to ld-jing [2009-08-21 18:49:14 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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ld-jing In reply to ld-jing [2009-08-21 05:23:11 +0000 UTC]

I use GeosansLight font for substituting HelveticaNeueLT

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Oceansolei [2009-08-18 14:38:33 +0000 UTC]

is a lot that no longer works the weather of the skin, why? the code in the file .ini is right

instead, the weather skin of hud.vision works!

accuWeather.com no found in the weather monitoring.
weather.com (hud.vision) in the weather monitoring works.

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ld-jing In reply to Oceansolei [2009-08-18 14:41:35 +0000 UTC]

Mine is okay.. can you give me your code?
I will figure it out..
You can send it at
shinji.ed2@gmail.com

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Oceansolei In reply to ld-jing [2009-08-18 14:55:16 +0000 UTC]

thanks friend, send email!

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ld-jing In reply to Oceansolei [2009-08-18 15:04:34 +0000 UTC]

resend it again..
sorry

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Oceansolei In reply to ld-jing [2009-08-18 15:07:47 +0000 UTC]

Even in the second email you can not download the attachment?

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karmat111 [2009-08-18 10:50:44 +0000 UTC]

Really nice work, well done!

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ld-jing In reply to karmat111 [2009-08-18 13:57:07 +0000 UTC]

thank you!! I really appreciate it..

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taipan-snake [2009-08-18 10:48:43 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! A lot better than mine

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ld-jing In reply to taipan-snake [2009-08-18 13:53:24 +0000 UTC]

Thanks to you!! It all started from your idea..
Great idea!

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teknoftw [2009-08-18 09:26:35 +0000 UTC]

Wow!

Very nice!

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ld-jing In reply to teknoftw [2009-08-18 09:49:12 +0000 UTC]

Thank anyway..
Thanks to your friend too..

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Kaelri [2009-08-18 01:04:22 +0000 UTC]

Gorgeous. Very classy. The menu bar in particular reminds me of the iPhone interface, and the high-res images really set it apart. Well done.

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ld-jing In reply to Kaelri [2009-08-18 04:18:33 +0000 UTC]

Thank you..
Really? I think that I adopt the HTC interface and making change a little bit..

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Oceansolei [2009-08-18 00:47:15 +0000 UTC]

wow, very cool

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ld-jing In reply to Oceansolei [2009-08-18 04:13:19 +0000 UTC]

thanks, mate

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Oceansolei In reply to ld-jing [2009-08-18 04:20:24 +0000 UTC]

I'm customizing your skin, I'm trying to convert the words to bring them in Italian.
But tell me, how do I put the month and day of week in language italian on the home page of the skin?, There can ...

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ld-jing In reply to Oceansolei [2009-08-18 04:34:17 +0000 UTC]

Do you have HUD.Vision?
If you have, take a look at Black or White\Date.Vision
It has French and Czech version.. try to take a look, it teach you how to change..

Substitute="Jan":"Leden"
substitute is for changing the text and the seperator is ":"

If you don't understand, feel free to ask

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Oceansolei In reply to ld-jing [2009-08-18 05:03:25 +0000 UTC]

Yes, I understood the meaning, but I do not know where to put the string to be added ... I do not work.
Please can you tell me what is the string after hud.vision and paste it on your skin?

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Oceansolei In reply to Oceansolei [2009-08-18 05:18:00 +0000 UTC]

There are successful!!!!!!!!

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ld-jing In reply to Oceansolei [2009-08-18 08:17:50 +0000 UTC]

Good job!
Which one do you use anyway? Beast or Tame? Just want to know

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glfsd [2009-08-17 21:51:38 +0000 UTC]

nice

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ld-jing In reply to glfsd [2009-08-18 04:11:34 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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borol [2009-08-17 17:09:18 +0000 UTC]

i have a issue with coretempplugin.dll not found.

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ld-jing In reply to borol [2009-08-18 04:11:24 +0000 UTC]

because i used coretempplugin.dll for the cpu temperature.. For vista user, you must find speedfanplugin.dll and change the script

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toanirvash [2009-08-17 15:57:22 +0000 UTC]

nice ill try this now.

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ld-jing In reply to toanirvash [2009-08-17 16:02:35 +0000 UTC]

thanks.. report to me if you find any bugs..

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