Here's a bit of a twist on our recent "Decorate your Mac" series of posts. Currently, there's a call on the NewtonTalk.net mailing list to collect as many holiday related packages (that's .pkg, not presents) for the Newt as possible, and save them all in one, happy directory. If you've got something you'd like to share, you may do so via the NewtonTalk list. Right now, a few Christmas eBooks are available, including A Christmas Carol, a choose-your-own-adventure story with a holiday theme and more.The Halloween Newton Challenge was quite successful last October. Now it's time for the winter holidays.
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12-10-2005 @ 6:59AM
DJ Vollkasko, Librarian--The Temporary Newton Library said...
* * * Neat ideas for Newtonia's Holiday Season * * *
* Trawl the web for Christmas (or other) stories. The usual blogs are good pointers, Project Gutenberg is a sure winner. Grab 'em and bookify them. Hey, if you click here http://www.google.de/search?newwindow=1&q=site%3Awww.gutenberg.org+christmas+recipe+cooking you could even make a Christmas cookbook!
(-- Want to know how to make a Newton eBook? It's really easy, everybody can, and the WikiWikiNewt will help you: http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/index.php/MakeNewtonEbooksIndex
* Compile your own favorite XMas/Hannukah/Kwaanza/Solstice/Vhatevah-recipes and traditions in one sweet Rich Text Format document, edit for nice looks, run Newton Press (get it free at http://www.unna.org) and File/Add it, set page breaks, add topics (for a table of content) and maybe insert some illustrations and give us something personal!
* Else you might want to create Season backdrop images for the usual backdrop apps...
* ...or record short AIFF or WAV sounds on your desktop to be used as system sounds. How to get them on your box? Easy--set up the new release of Mail V by Simon Bell, mail the sounds over and put them away
from In Box, presto!--they are available as system sounds for all these fun tricks here http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/index.php/ChangeSystemSounds .
* Another customisation: You can change the Newton startup screen, at least on NOS 2.0:
http://tmurai-web.hp.infoseek.co.jp/computers/freeware/newton/sscreen/
startupscreen.html . Does it work on MP2x00 and eMates, too? Research this, write a small, newbie-proof manual and give this gift. Fun for
the whole family!
* You could follow this HowTo http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/index.php/MakeNewtonSing and teach the Newton a new tune, taking lyrics from a Christmas song and transcribing it so it sound nice via TTS. Follow the linked Macintalk-instructions and create more Text-to-Speech caroling goodness...
* Or do anything else you'd like to do--give a new release of a software you're developing, or a new hack from the heart, or a new Moron's Manual(TM) documenting something step-by-step, or...
Be creative.
Santa 'Kasko
The Temporary Newton Library
http://www.stillnewt.org./library
Newton Christmas Challenge 2005
http://www.stillnewt.org/library/_Fiction/_Newton%20Christmas/
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