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  LSWEEKLY LiteStep Related News 01.04.00 - 07.04.00
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- TimeWarpX leaves LS (10:18am 03.04)

	It seems that for some reason that Time does not wish to
	talk about, he is leaving the LS Community.  This is indeed
	a very sad day.  Taken from his last ss posted on ls.net:

	"I have waited until the day *after* April fools to post
	this... as I do not want this taken as a joke.

	"I am very sorry to say that this shall be my last screenshot,
	post or anything. Due to circumstances that I wish not to
	discuss, I am completely leaving the LS community. This is
	probably the saddest day that I have ever faced, but
	unfortunately there is no way out for me. There are several
	people that I would like to thank and say a final goodbye to.

	"c0mrade, number one, I am incredibly sorry that I have let you
	down on litestep.org, I wish that I could stay and help out.

	"AznRomeo... what can i say, I've known you as long as I've been
	here, I'm going to miss you. Please continue owning with your
	themes. Too bad I wont be here any more to give you ideas :(

	"MorpheusX... if you ever see this, you are the one that got
	the ball rolling, from you I learned shortcutgroups, the
	community completely changed due to you, I may not have liked
	your style, but you own.

	"Ender^gcc... don't give up, never let anyone try and tell you
	that you are something that you don't think you are, if you
	believe in yourself then nothing can stop you. I thank you
	greatly for easycuts, which has probably created the biggest
	ripple in the themeing scene(sorry other coders, you guys kick
	ass too), oh yeah... please continue and enhance easycuts, I
	hit some performance problems at 200+ shortcutgroups :)

	"Killarny... you too I knew for a very long time, I have not
	spoken to you in a long while, but be assured that you are
	still a great friend.

	"maaneeack... we had alot of fun, I will miss you greatly.

	"phobos18... Don't give up on ICE, don't let a great shell slide
	into nothingness, I am sorry for many things that I said long
	ago.

	lonerunnr... you started this all... Litestep has evolved into
	a very very great thing, it has been a very big part of my
	life, and I am very glad of that, thank you for litestep.

	"Devteam... I am sorry that I will not be around to harass you
	once you start in on .25, please do not lose faith in your
	vision.

	"To everyone else that I'm SURE I missed, I have been around
	since October of 1998r, I am sure that I have missed people in
	this spiel... I will miss you too...

	"Please do not send email to me, if you wish just post comments
	in here, I will see them. Perhaps someday if conditions change
	for me, I will be back, but I am not sure. I will always look
	back to the times that I had involved with litestep as the best
	part of my life so far.

	"And with that I bid you a final farewell, please don't let
	the innovation that I have strived for die.

	"TimewarpX
	":*("

	url - http://www.litestep.net/sshots.php3?perform=zoom&sid=206
	(source: http://www.litestep.net)

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          MODULES
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- TextEdit 1.0 ~ WhiteShadow (9:19am 04.04)

	"This is a small module that adds two bang command !textadd
	and!textdel which can be used to edit text files. It could be
	useful in allowing you to edit your step.rc file on the fly.
	However, it could also be very dangerous if used on the wrong
	file."
	
	url - http://www.muohio.edu/~changty/
	e-mail - changty@muohio.edu
	(source: http://modulo.litestep.org)

                           +---------------+

- mIRC Command 1.1 ~ WhiteShadow (9:21am 04.04)

	New in this version:
		Fixed closing of dde connection when module is unloaded.

	url - http://www.muohio.edu/~changty/
	e-mail - changty@muohio.edu
	(source: http://modulo.litestep.org)

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           THEMES
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- 14 ~ Darkfyre (10:37am 07.04)

	"According to authorities on the subject, this is my best
	theme yet =] ...and i must say i agree wholeheartedly."
	
	"Nifty features include a desktop switcher (so you don't need
	a clunky vwm taking up space on your desktop all the time),
	spiffy shortcut buttons with the coolest mouseover effect I've
	ever created, and an LSXCommand that hides itself away when not
	in use."
	
	"This theme supports resolutions 800x600 - 1280x1024."
	
	"I've included Eclipse's "Eclipse Metal" wallpaper because it
	makes my theme look good ;]"
	
	"I really enjoyed making this theme (even more so than putting
	labels on the screenshot) and hope i hope it works as well for
	your desktop as it has for mine."
	
	url - http://www.litestep.net
	ss - http://www.litestep.net/themes/ss/14.jpg
	e-mail - stynesco@msu.edu
	(source: http://www.litestep.net)

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          WEB SITES
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- c0mrade Looking For A New LS.org Web Admin

	"All right people, after basically coding Modulo from scratch,
	to make it dynamic, and easy for updates, I've come back down
	to earth, and walked into the wall. What I mean, is
	litestep.org which TimewarpX and myself started work on. But
	since TimewarpX has left the realms of LiteStep scene, I've met
	a few difficulties, so I'm seeking for some help. Below is the
	list of what's preferred, but not required:
	
	"If you are an experienced LiteStepper (theming, configuring,
	etc.) litestep.org needs you. I'm going to list what I need
	out of administrator(s) below:
	
	"Knowledge of LiteStep from basic things to advanced features.
	"Knowledge of HTML.
	"Knowledge of PHP is ENCOURAGEBLE.
	"Willingness to dedicate some time to the site consistently.
	
	"Not a lot I ask for, so if you ARE in fact interesting in
	getting involved with litestep.org AND litestep.net (yes both
	sites, because they will be integrated between each other),
	PLEASE, contact me at c0mrade@litestep.net, or c0mrade@litestep.org.

	"Thank you in advance."

	url - http://www.litestep.net
	e-mail - c0mrade@litestep.net
	(source: http://www.litestep.net)

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            MISC
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- Tutorial on Updating LiteStep ~ rootrider (10:00am 03.04)

	"I've just written up a quick tutorial for people who wish to
	install Litestep for the first time. I also updated the
	"Upgrading to 11/23/99" tutorial to include information on
	actually unzipping the build into the LS directory (along with
	one correction :). As always, if anyone has any more 
	information on installing or upgrading Litestep, or
	corrections for me to make, please let me know."

	url - http://floach.pimpin.net/litestep-upgrade.shtml
	e-mail - rootrider@netzero.net
	(source: http://floach.pimpin.net)

                           +---------------+

- Rainlendar Source Released ~ Rainy (10:14am 03.04)

	"Sources for Rainlendar released. I hope they are useful to
	someone. At least they show how to use MFC in Litestep plugins.
	Also some of you might find the semi-transparency stuff
	interesting."
	
	url - http://gamma.nic.fi/~rainy/
	e-mail - rainy@iki.fi
	(source: http://gamma.nic.fi/~rainy/)

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- If you use negative numbers when placing shortcuts and other desktop
  items, you can make your theme resolution independent.  The simple
  theory behind this is you are counting pixels away from the sides 
  instead of too the sides.

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