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  XSWEEKLY Shell Related News 04.11.00 - 10.11.00
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	Over the last few week I have noticed something that is 
really getting to me, un-objective reviews.  If you are going to
review something, be objective.  Don't let personal experience get
in the way of giving what ever it is an objective review.  Even if you
had problems with it, state that, but don't directly say something
to the effect of "it sucks".  That is not only un-objective but down
right mean.  The coders (or who ever made what it is you are reviewing)
has put time and effort into something that you are putting down.

	Now, don't get me wrong, I do this sometimes, but I don't say
that it out right sucks.  I point out what I think is wrong and give
options on how I think it could be better.  This is constructive
criticism and will more than likely make the person who you did the
review on take a second look at what was done.  If you out and out
put down the product there is a good chance it will just be left
out to die.

	The next time that you are going to review something, think
about something that you have put a lot of time and effort into.  Then
think about how it would feel if someone came along and said that it
sucked.

- demigod

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  Who would you like me to interview?

  e-mail - mailbag@xsweely.com
  url - http://www.xsweekly.com/mail.html

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- Chaku's Site

  Chaku is the coder of some great modules like Popupck, ckVWM, and
  lsCDEject.  Not only does he have his modules listed here, but
  also some other programs he has coded.
  
  url - http://www.geocities.com/chaokuolin/

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- grdAmp 1.05 ~ grd (9:58 06.11 ls)

	"grdAmp is almost like geekamp or any similar module. It
	provides !bangs for controlling your music experience. The
	main difference between grdamp and any other !bang player
	controller is that this module, doesn't require ANY program
	running in the background which makes it more of a
	music-player and less of a play-controller."

	New in this version:

	- Massive rewrite (so you can expect some buggyness)
	- Most important thing is that the playlist now exists as a
	  separate class. This actually means that by the next
	  version it's going to be possible to connect an external
	  playlist. This enables grdamp to be a full featured
	  musicplayer for those that want that and those who want a
	  lightweight litestep-music-player can have it another great
	  addition is the fact that nowadays only the currently
	  active input plugin is loaded. This will hopefully make it
	  more memory effective. This also has effect on streams. You
	  will only be able to open streams with a module that is
	  already open. So to play a stream that in_mp3 can read
	  (don't use in_mp3 still) you have to first load an mp3 and
	  then load the stream directly after.
	- !grdampopen has been somewhat improved (thx again blkhawk)
	  and the module is generally alot cleaner (although NeXTer
	  would prolly disagree).
	- !grdAmpClearStack, !grdAmpSaveStack & !grdAmpShuffleStack
	  have all been renamed to !grdAmpListClear, !grdAmpListSave,
	  & !grdAmpListShuffle and grdAmpRandom, grdAmpRepeatOne 
	  & grdAmpRepeatAll have all altered names; grdAmpListRandom,
	  grdAmpListRepeatOne & grdAmpListRepeatAll this is all to
	  provide a difference between grdAmp inside commands/settings
	  and grdAmpList specific commands/settings.

	url - http://floach.pimpin.net/grd/ls/
	e-mail - grd@swipnet.se
	(source: http://floach.pimpin.net/grd/ls/)

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- LsBox 2.0 ~ Black Hawk (10:39 30.10 ls)

 	LsBox is a skinable easy to customize and {resource-friendly}
	alternative to the "normal" shortcutgroups for a number of
	applications like freefloating menus, messageboxes, and 
	configuration dialogs.

	New in this version:

	- Fixed the !LsBoxDestroy function, seems still to be
	  crashing on some  win2k machines. I still don't know what
	  causes the crashes.
	- Fixed the !lsBoxShow and !LsBoxHide functions - I broke
	  them in the last release.

	%%UPDATE%% (9:19 07.11)

	- Added LsBoxOnLeftClick
	- Added LsBoxOnRightClick
	- Added LsBoxStartHidden - This will let you start a box
	  Hidden by default.
	- Added !LsboxResetPos - This will help if a box was moved in
	  some unnatural way. Like when a box moves to 15mil X and
	  4mil Y after a resolution change.
	- Fixed not visible Text problem.
	- Fixed vanishing Shortcuts then Crash Problem.

	url - http://www.blkhawk.de
	e-mail - blkhawk@blkhawk.de
	(source: http://www.blkhawk.de)

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- geOSwim v1.0 ~ Scott Ramsay (11:20 07.11 geo)

	"geoSwim a virtual desktop manager.  It increases your desktop
	size to any dimension.  Instead of selecting a desktop region
	like typical vdm's, geoSwim allow you to pan (swim) your
	visual area."

	url - http://news.geoshell.com/pages/plugins.asp
	e-mail - sramsay90@hotmail.com
	(source: http://news.geoshell.com)

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- Soniquez 1.0 ~ azathoth (11:22 07.11 ls)

	This is a front end for sonique.  It functions much like
	geekAMP.  It allows for playing, opening, stoping, etc of
	music files via Sonique.

	url - http://www.ls2k.org
	e-mail - azathoth@intricatechaos.com
	(source: azathoth via irc)

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- ShortcutMap 1.0 ~ MrJukes (11:02 12.11 ls)

	This new module by jukes is a great module for those of 
	you who theme in graphical control panels.  Instead of
	having to make a ton of shortcut's and what not, this
	allows you to make one image and map out sections of it
	to be clickable ala imagemaps in html.
	
	url - http://www.litestep.net
	e-mail - mrjukes@purdue.edu
	(source: http://www.ls2k.org)

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- Popup 2.12ck ~ Chaku (11:09 12.11 ls)

	The ck versions of popup2.dll have the ability to have
	multiple popup menus assigned.
	
	New in this version:
	
	- Fixed scrolling problem. If your !Popup won't start with a
	  portion out of the desktop while clicking at the edge of
	  the screen, and thus no scrolling, try using the bang name
	  you assigned for that popup.

	- Added support for bang command to specify popup position:
	  !Popup[BangName] x y
	  ex. !PopupMain 100 300, negative numbers work too.

	url - http://www.geocities.com/chaokuolin/i
	e-mail - chaokuo@iname.com
	(source: Chaku via irc)

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- LSThemes 0.81 ~ galois (11:09 12.11 ls)

	"LiteStep Theme Selector (LSTS) provides you with a graphical
	user interface (GUI) for easy changing of LiteStep themes. It
	provides theme preview and readme/documentation linking
	capabilities, and can set default theme for your system to
	use at startup."
	
	New in this version:
	
	- Minor Bug Fixes
	- Revamped help file done by qwilk
	
	url - http://www.ls2k.org
	e-mail - galois@chungkuo.net
	(source: http://www.ls2k.org)

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- not-so-geOAutoPlay ~ elem~poimen (11:15 07.11 geo)

	This is basically a hacked version of litestep with the
	autorun.dll jugg did.  This module will add autorun for
	cd's.

	url - http://news.geoshell.com/pages/plugins.asp
	e-mail - tdlarson@bigfoot.com
	(source: http://news.geoshell.com)

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- LiteStep
     o 24.6 build 100600
     o http://builds.litestep.net/builds/ls-0246-dev-20001006.zip

- DarkStep
     o 0.971
     o http://www.darkstep.com/files/DarkStep971.zip

- geOShell
     o 4.6.5a
     o http://news.geoshell.com/Plugins/Download/geoshellr465a.zip

- PureLS
     o 052900
     o http://209.46.69.134/purels/binaries/00-05-29r.zip

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- SEAL On SourceForge ~ Amos Vryhof (12:16 07.11 sel)

	"I finally figured out how to get SourceForge to work
	properly.  It doesn't like Internet Explorer...but works
	great under Netscape.  Hopefully once it is all setup, we
	will be able to use any system we want.

	"This will get us CVS, FTP, and a lot of other stuff (like
	access to their compile farm)

	"I will begin working on a main page for the Web Page access.
	It will basically draw the whole Seal community together in
	one place.  There will be very little information, other than
	access to different Seal resources, and services provided in
	various places.

	"The site will be as simple and straight forward as possible..
	nothing flashy where it isn't needed, and more dependence on
	color than images.

	"Hope this can do the trick of keeping the 'main source' up
	to date."

	url - http://sealsystem.sourceforge.ne
	e-mail - a.m.o.s@juno.com
	(source: http://pub8.ezboard.com/bsealsystem)

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- SEAL
     o 1D (042900)
     o http://www.home.sk/public/seal/sealexe.zip

- V2_OS
     o 0.70
     o ftp://vp.dyn.dhs.org/0.70/v2_os.img

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