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# taboo_Vision, a skin for RainMeter, #
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# by Jamien Price #
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Download link:
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http://jamien-price.deviantart.com/gallery/

Pics:
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For a screenshot of all apps in action:
http://jamien-price.deviantart.com/art/taboo-Vision-Rainmeter-skin-122031154
And for a mix of the black and white skins:
http://jamien-price.deviantart.com/art/taboo-Vision-Rainmeter-skin-122031526

Intro:
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My skin, taboo_Vision, is a modification/upgrade/tidy up/tweaking of Jiri Mahel'
s skin HUD.Vision.
HUD.Vision is one of the most popular skins for Rainmeter and one that I fell in
love with, however I felt it needed just a few modification to make it truly fa
ntastic. To anyone that has used HUD.Vision I hope you too feel taboo_Vision imp
roves on what was already a fantastic skin, and to those of you that haven't I h
ope you love my skin just the same.
Any complaints, bugs, complements or requests can be sent to jamien_price@hotmai
l.com. I would love to hear from you all :D.

So, what's changed?:

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General Updates:
* Did a mass overhaul on the folder structure to make it more visual and user fr
iendly.
* Generally tidied up code where I saw fit.
* Did away with the "Black" and "White" subfolders and put each .ini together pr
efixed with a "B-" or a "W-".
* Removed the "Happy Name Day" skin.
* Made a very handy Reminders skin.
* Fixed the issue with the System Information skin where it will cut of some of
the text.
* Removed the word "vision" from the skin names, it felt inconsistent.
* Made the previous and next track buttons on the Foobar skin the correct image.
* Changed to colour of all "bar graphs" on the white skins to a salmon colour (H
DD and Battery skins).
* Added a dot (typically on the top-right of each skin) to give the mouse someth
ing to right click on and grab when moving the skins around. Also, double clicki
ng this dot will open the folder that the .ini is in for that skin.
* I've also given the option to make the dot either white or salmon by changin
g the name of one file ##read instructions below##.
* In the case of the CalendarDays skin I made it so double-clicking the day ma
rker will open its .ini folder.
* Made the marker for the day on the Calendar skin the same salmon colour.
* Any skin with a "line graph" originally had two options. One where the space u
nder the line had a slight shading and one where the space under the line was em
pty. I deleted all the one's with shading as I felt they looked less classy, how
ever with enough demand I can put them back in.
* Combined the network and the network zOOm folders.
Date Skin Updates:
* Removed the extra unnecessary text explaining the order the date is written in
.
* Changed the Date skin format so the day is on top and the complete date is on
the bottom. Much nicer to view.
Clock Skin Updates:
* Removed the second hand from the clocks to make them look less cluttered. It h
as only been commented out in the .ini however so it can easily be brought back.
* Added hourly markings on the clocks.
* Made the analogue time in the clocks a little smaller and readable.
* Renamed the clock .ini's to be either 12 or 24.
* Changed the name of the hour, minute and second .png's to English.
* Modified the hour, minute and second hands slightly.
HDD Update:
* Removed the HDD2 and HDD3 folders and made the HDDx folder refer to drive G. T
his folder can be easily edited to refer to whichever drive you wish by replacin
g any occurences of "G:" with the drive you wish to refer to.
* Made the "bar graph" for the white skin a salmon colour.
* Made it so double clicking the bar graph will open up its .ini folder.

Installation:
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0.) install Rainmeter, project live ! http://code.google.com/p/rainmeter/ :)
1.) Extract .zip to you Rainmeter directory.
1.1) only for installation to !!! Windows Vista !!!
Right click on your Rainmeter folder and uncheck the "Read only" box,
apply it to all files and subfolders. Now you can use taboo_Vision as
it did in Windows XP.
2.) only for "Picture Browser & Changing Wallpapers"
download NCONVERT http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/en_ncdownload.
html and install to to Windows directory.
edit all ini files in directory "Picture.Browser+Wallpapers and
settings Monitor Resolution, example 1280x800 defined "-resize 1280 0"
and defined image path in variables "ImagePath".
3.) only for Foobar2000 "WinAmp+Foobar interface"
download http://chron.visiondesigns.de/foobar2000/foo_winamp_spam_v0.96.zip
must install the special Winamp API file foo_winamp_spam.dll
into the folder: C:\Program Files\foobar2000\Components\
Weather Instructions:
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To change the destination for your weather:
1) Open your web browser and go to www.weather.com
2) At the top of this website is a search box. Type in you're destination. Lets
say "Peru".
2.1) Before clicking "search" wait a sec. and a list of close matches shoul
d show up below the search box. Choose the one closest to you.
2.2) If 2.1 DOESN'T happen don't worry, just click search.
3) Take note of the link. It should look something like this:
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/USIA0679?lswe=Peru.
The part you are interested in is everything after the "local/" and before the
"?" so "USIA0679". Copy this code.
4) Now, go to your taboo_Vision weather folder (default: C:\Program Files\Rainme
ter\Skins\taboo_Vision\Weather) there should be four .ini's in here.
5) Open each .ini in a text editor and search for "dest=", paste your "location
code" after the equals (removing the one that's already there).
5.1) A few lines below "dest=" is another variable called "SCALE=". If you
have "SCALE=m" it will show your temperatures in
6) Right click on your Rainmeter system bay icon and click "Refresh All", or if
Rainmeter is closed open it.
7) The weather skin should now fetch the data for YOUR location.

Reminders Instructions:
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If you have installed Rainmeter to its default location (C:\Program Files\Rainme
ter) No configuration should be necissary. However if you want the reminders ski
n to read a text file in a different location follow these instructions.
1) Go to "*Rainmeter Root*\Skins\taboo_Vision\Reminders".
2) There should be four or three files in this folder
- B-Reminders.ini
- W-Reminders.ini
- Reminders.txt, and maybe
- redme (reminders).txt
3) Open each .ini and look for the line that says "Path=C:\Program Files..." (it
should be about 14 lines down). Change the path after "Path=" to point to your
.txt file.
4) The Reminders skins should now display any text typed into that file.