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After two months of hard work I'm proud to announce ThrottleLauncher 1.0 RC2! This version has been fully rewritten and is working a lot faster and smoother than the previous versions providing a completly refreshed UI experience. The changes include, between many other features, reading from Facebook or RSS sources and much more flexibility for Theme developers.

Back compatibility with themes has been one of the targets of the RC2 development so you will be able to take advantage of RC2's speed and improvements in the previous version's themes.

The Light3D theme has also been improved to provide an infinite Desktop you can increase eassily by dragging widgets arround. You'll never get lost in the infinite desktop thanks to the page icons in that are displayed in the top right corner showing the existing pages and the current one. Check the following video to watch some of the new features.

Important

This software is provided ASIS, use it at your own risk.... and read all this page before installing!!

Please if you use this app, any feedback will be wellcome and will help in further development and bug solving. To post feedback use this web forum or the XDA developers one (search for the ThrottleLauncher thread ofcourse).

ThrottleLauncher will disable the security checks for 3rd party software from your device. This is necesary because TL uses reflection to load assemblies and the popup dialog will crash the system if it appears.

Prerequisites

CPU: > 200 Mhz
Storage Memory: ~2 MB (depends on the themes installed)
Main memory: ~7 MB (depends on the themes installed)
NET.CF 3.5 installed.
Windows Mobile 5.0 or Greatter.
To use flash plugin you need flashplayer 7 installed.
Any device manufacturer and screen resolutions are supported!!

Instalation

First of all, before installing, please perform a system backup. ThrottleLauncher 1.0 RC2 has followed lot's of prerelases (19) tested by betatesters to ensure your device is safe. Though this software is provided ASIS and without any waranty.

The instalation is really simple. Just copy the CAB file to your PocketPC and navigate with your device's fiel explorer to it's location and execute it from there. You can install the application on any media you want (Main memory, Storage Card, Internal Memory, etc) though using main memory is strongly recomended as it may improve performance.

If you are upgrading from a previous version is strongly recomended to uninstall it before installing ThrottleLauncher 1.0 RC2.

After installing ThrottleLauncher perform a softreset. When the device has stared up go to StartMenu > Settings > Personal > Today > Items and uncheck every today plugin other than ThrottleToday. ThrottleLauncher will start in your desktop. If you encounter problems when loading ThrottleLauncher, go to Start Menu > Programs > ThrottleConfig and ensure the Light3D theme is selected in the dropdown. Then hit "reload plugin".

1. Backup your device data.
2. If you don't have a previous instalation skip to point 8.
3. Backup your ThrottleLauncher directory if you have a previous instalation, specially if you have a customized theme.
4. Unselect the today plugin if you have it activated.
5. Softreset
6. Uninstall all the previous versions of ThrottleLauncher.
7. Softreset
8. Copy the cab files you want to install using ActiveSync and continue this steps using your device.
9. Install the ThrottleLauncher.cab file.
10. Select ThrottleToday as today plugin (Start Menu > Settings > Today) and uncheck all other today plugins.
11. ThrottleLauncher must now be showing on your Today screen. Congrats!!

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Themes

ThrottleLauncher is a fully customizable UI framework. This means that you can achieve almost anything with it. There are themes making TL work really similar iPhone, WM7, Android, Hero, BBStorm and many other original themes like ConceptFS. BBSmart2D, SwitchBlade or PlanetcureFS. Just look arround this web and the forums... there are lot's of great themes available. Also if you feel brave enough you can create your own theme :).

Widgets

Some of the themes (like the Light3D theme) support widgets. Widgets are small items you can attach to the theme and drag&drop arround. Each widget may have it's own configuration. There are lot's of widgets available at this web and at the forums. Check'em out!

Support

If you need support please try searching the forums for an answer. If you still can't solve the problem don't hesitate to open a support ticket. Answer is not waranted but we will try out best.

Also please follow the trouble shooting guide.

Licenses

ThrottleLauncher is a freeware app, though it does have a licensing system. The free licenses are only valid for a period of 3 months. After that amount of time a red text will apear on the top but everything will continue working normally. Just go and get a new license :).

You can get the free licenses here: Licenses

Thanks to

My girlfriend for her patience and support. I love you!!
All the beta testers for their hard (and great) work.
kde-look.org: The widgets include some graphics that are ported from Karamba widgets.
EvgeniyKO: for his great design ideas. (I've to make that calendar ).

Hope you like it!!