PalmPowerups Releases SkinUI as Freeware

Posted By: Ryan Kairer Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:16:43 PM

SkinUIPalmPowerups has released an update to SkinUI and has made the program available as freeware. SkinUI is similar to PalmRevolt in that is enables you to completely skin the Palm OS to achieve a completely new user interface experience. Users can find a good selection of skins from OS X and Cobalt to "Church Punk" available at the PalmPowersups site.

In a post on 1src, the developer dmitrygr says he is nearing the end of his long Palm OS programming run. Dmitry is currently working on a nuRom LifeDrive utility and a SDHC driver for Palm devices which he expects to be his last projects.

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Sad day for Palm fans

PacManFoo @ 4/22/2008 4:07:48 PM # Q
Dmitry put out more fixes to Palm devices then Palm. Sad to see him leave but good luck to him in his future endeavors. Just another nail in Palm's coffin. How many nails can possibly be left?


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RE: Sad day for Palm fans
bhartman34 @ 4/22/2008 6:04:57 PM # Q
Well, hopefully there will still be a Palm to program for when he gets done with his MBA. I really didn't read frustration with Palm in his post, but not having him to program for the platform is, as you say, definitely not a good sign.

RE: Sad day for Palm fans
Poopie @ 4/22/2008 7:44:54 PM # Q

I really didn't read frustration with Palm in his post

Then you haven't read many of his posts. Probably half of his software exists because of bugs in PalmOS that Palm has refused to fix. If if weren't for Dmitry's fixes, many power users would be in a world of hurt.

Imagine the amazing things he could have done working for palm, getting those bugs actually fixed, and adding palmpowerups functionality to PalmOS out of the box...

sigh.


RE: Sad day for Palm fans
bhartman34 @ 4/22/2008 8:12:53 PM # Q
Then you haven't read many of his posts.

Well, I was actually referring to his farewell post, rather than anything he's written before. The most I've read from him is responses to support requests, really. I was simply saying his "farewell post" didn't cite frustration (which it could have, if that's the reason he was hanging it up).

And if half his software exists because of Palm bugs, it would seem to me that he wouldn't mind the bugs so much, in a way.

RE: Sad day for Palm fans
joad @ 4/23/2008 12:28:23 AM # Q
Dmitri's UDMH is the only way I can do a quick restore from backups, as most of the Java files bomb out on restore without it. Sad to see another creative developer leaving that was squashing Palm's bugs, but I guess anyone would get tired of seeing so many dumb opportunities.

At the rate Palm's releasing Palm devices perhaps the writing's on the wall already. WinceMob is such a load of dung, so just waiting for touchscreen Crackberry and I'm seriously considering leaving Palm alone to ignore itself into the oblivion it's been seeking so effectively over these years.

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RE: Sad day for Palm fans
SeldomVisitor @ 4/23/2008 6:45:31 AM # Q
> ...Sad to see another creative developer leaving that was
> squashing Palm's bugs, but I guess anyone would get tired
> of seeing so many dumb opportunities...

If developers "on the outside" are leaving, it makes one wonder how many developers "on the inside" are leaving.

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Nertz!

dagwud @ 4/22/2008 5:50:58 PM # Q
I hope he keeps selling the software long after he's done developing it. I need to buy Powerdigi for my TX, and I suspect my father will likely need it in short order for his, too.

Cool that SkinUI is free, though.

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Sad day

sremick @ 4/23/2008 10:19:45 AM # Q
Even if you don't know Dmitry, you probably either use something created by him or by someone who learned from him. There's probably no other unofficial Palm hacker guru out there in the same league.

This is a sad sign of the times. Without the Dmitrys to pick up the slack, Palm devices are just going to continue to decline. I confess to not having turned on my T3 in several months. I ran into a problem that I couldn't solve, and despite many appeals to many forums, no one would help me either. Not because it's that difficult, but because the support community is vaporizing. The gurus are gone. A few years ago, I would've had a dozen people who could've fixed my T3 software problem in their sleep replying to me with suggestions. Now I get crickets.

I'm not a guru. Without the community support to help me in a pinch, my Palm becomes less-valuable to me.

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Nice tool

asiayeah @ 4/25/2008 7:48:44 AM # Q
I've just started to try SkinUI. It does make the user interface more attractive. Some of those features should really be adopted into the OS itself, particularly when Palm Inc. now has source code access to it.

However, SkinUI crashes when I answer a phone call on my Treo 680 GSM Unlocked with the latest update. (Software: Treo680-2.12-APR).

Well, I guess I would just to have disable SkinUI and wish Palm Inc would really introduce some UI enhancements, hopefully in the next revision of the Palm Centro.

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RE: Nice tool
twrock @ 4/25/2008 10:05:58 AM # Q
If you are willing to pay for it, PalmRevolt is a similar program. Maybe it won't crash?


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RE: Nice tool
nmoreman @ 4/29/2008 6:03:49 AM # Q
I was having the crash/reset problem. A note in TreoCentral said to disable the Big Button in options. I don't understand, but so far, so good.

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